Dakar 2022: introduction of contestants in the truck category

The legendary Dakar Rally is back! Almost a year has passed since the Russian KAMAZ-master crew managed by Dmitry Sotnikov won first place in the truck category and heard the anthem of the Russian Federation at the award ceremony in Saudi Arabia.

A lot has changed over the past period of time: in 2022 the first ever World Rally-Raid Championship will take place and the Dakar will become its first stage, presentation of hybrid vehicles has increased, and KAMAZ-master is putting two new K5 trucks into the race. The future is coming today!

The truck classification is justly considered one of the most spectacular in the Dakar - multi-ton vehicles overcome hundreds of kilometers of off-road, reaching a speed of 140 kmh. And with each rally-marathon edition, the racing pace becomes higher - a real challenge for the crew members, whose task is to reach the finish line with a high result. The Dakar 2022 attracted attention of 56 crews (8 pilots of which are rookies), which is 12 more than in January 2021.

KAMAZ-master team will perform on 4 sports trucks in the race. Two of them are familiar to fans of KAMAZ-43509 and the other two are new KAMAZ-435091 of the K5 family. Crews of the reigning Dakar champion Dmitry Sotnikov and the five-time winner of the rally-marathon Eduard Nikolaev will represent Russia in the international competition on the new KAMAZ trucks of the K5 family. Crews of Anton Shibalov and Andrey Karginov will take part in the race on trucks of the previous model with technical improvements, implemented during 2021, which make the traditional KAMAZ a serious rival to the sports vehicles of the leading foreign teams in the Dakar truck category.