Vladimir Chagin – winner of 6th lap at Silk Road rally
10 September 2009, Thursday
KAMAZ-Master team crew led by Vladimir Chagin won in the 6th lap of Silk Road-2009 rally-raid. KAMAZ truck number 204 covered the 514 kilometres long special stage in 5 hours 29 minutes.
Vladimir Chagin who lost 3 hours due to a damage yesterday showed that he was not going to give up. He demonstrated that he was going to continue the struggle at least at each stage. The five-time Dakar champion left his team-fellow Firdaus Kabirov 27 minutes behind. Gerard de Roy was the third with 33 minutes underrun.
In overall rating Chagin is behind Kabirov by 2 hours 36 minutes. Firdaus Kabirov strengthened his leadership – now he is 35 minutes ahead of Gerard de Roy. Ilgizar Mardeev (KAMAZ) is the third being 37 minutes behind the leader.
On 20 January in the evening Russian President Vladimir Putin called Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and congratulated him with his birthday. During the conversation Vladimir Putin stated that he is happy to hear bright voice of Mintimer (Sharipovich) and wished him good health and all the best.
On 20 January, congratulating Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev with his birthday, the Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mishustin wrote in his telegramme: “Being a famous and political leader, you have made a substantial contribution into modern development of Tatarstan and have earned the deep respect and gratitude of residents of the republic.
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He received numerous congratulations from the state and regional leaders, public figures, figures in science, education and culture and residents of the country and Tatarstan.
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