Turkmen car racers Merdan Toilyev and Maksatmyrat Danatarov became prize-winners of the Silk Road rally, the largest in Eurasia, winning silver and bronze, the organisers reports.
They were driving Nissan Patrol off-road vehicles and managed to distinguish themselves in the T2 rally-raid discipline. The winners of the competition, in which representatives of more than 20 countries took part, were awarded on Red Square in the centre of Moscow.
The Silk Way Rally stages with the length of 2530km passed through three time zones (from Kazan to Moscow) on the territory of 13 regions of Russia.
All vehicles (motorbikes, quad bikes, all-terrain vehicles, off-road vehicles and trucks) were allowed to participate.
The Silk Way was first initiated by Turkmenistan in 2009. The eight-day route covered the expanses of Central Russia and the Southern Urals, steppes of Kazakhstan and the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. The race was organised by the KAMAZ team (Russia) and financed by the State Concern Turkmengaz.
Credits: Eziz Boyarov
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