Three MINI car leading the team X-Raid dropped out of the fight - including, alas, and the car of Russia's Leonid Novitskiy...
The rally is finished on Saturday, October 22, with 1 12 participants of the international rally of OiLibya of Morocco successfully arrived at the start of the Uarzazat race-a small but very civilised city in the south of the country. The scale of the race this year has exceeded all previous releases. The participants ' composition was very strong, and there were many interesting eyes in the pre-launch zone that examined the new technique of its competitors "charged" to Dakar. Rally is finished on Saturday, October 22, the main attention was undoubtedly focused on the Monster Energy X-Raid team, which brought three brightly painted Mini and one BMW X3CC to Morocco. The head of the pilots-Leonid Novitsky, Nani Roma, Ricardo Santos and Boris Garafisn decorated the list of participants, as all these pilots are known worldwide. The second was the Belgian Overdrive, which arrived in Morocco. Here the interest was presented by a completely new Toyota Hilux prototype, which was driving an Argentinian Orlando Therentrana. In addition, the team was supplemented by two Russian crews-Leonid Ogorodonnikov with Konstantin Ziltsov on Nissan T1 and Vladimir Sherman and Anton Nikolayev in category T2. Rally finishes on Saturday, October 22Rally Morocco debuted for the first time with a new Russian 4-Rally team. The crew of Pavle Logarov and Anton Pletena made the launch at Toyota Hilux T1, while the debutante in the rally-raids Vadim Savelyev and his experienced navigator Vladimir Demyanenko announced a race in the category of standard cars on Toyota LC120. Both vehicles were produced in Spain at the 4WD Jaton Racing base. Rally is finishing on Saturday, October 22From Uzarazat in Zagora ran the route of the first special section of 300 km distance. The mountain narrow roads and the abundance of stones demanded very high concentrations from the pilots, but many of them were unable to avoid mistakes. The main loser of the day was the Argentinian Terrants, who, as a result of his own mistake, hit his Toyota Hilux on stones and suffered serious injuries. In the second half of the distance, the Mini was stopped under the control of Nana Roma. The engine and the Spaniard ceased to participate in the race. At lunch on that day, Mitsubishi Lancer was under the control of Bernard Shadow Brinke, and the Russians finished in full and the best became Leonid Nowicki, who showed the second time of the day. Rally is finishing on Saturday, October 222nd stage of the race was developing rapidly. The programme of the day included two laps of 133 kilometres each. The sandy nature of the road and the first dunes of the Cegag surgeons were welcomed by riders with open arms. More than half of the participants, owing to long stops and digging in the sand, did not meet the standards or were unable to travel in both circles, which has had an impact on the results. Teranova won a day, but given the 10-hour penalization after the first day, it was still in the tail of the petal. This day has also been for Leonid Novitsky. Having spent the first of two circles without reproach, and winning it with a good advantage, Novitsky raced to the second circle, but 21 km to the finish line on his Mini, one went missing gear at the checkpoint and ended up making the engine end. The Srood of Nowicki was seriously alerted by the whole team, and the broken motors decided to send for expertise. Rally finishes on Saturday, October 223rd stage sums up the first half of the race. The bright spectator of the distance in Zagora, 338 km included all the diversity of Moroccan roads-rocky technical plateau, on which the jeeps developed speed up to 175 km/h, dangerous "feesh", dust, which makes it difficult to appear and dry riverbeds. The day began with the sensational announcement of the X-Raid command to withdraw from the race of the last third Mini Ricardo Santos, who confidently established himself on the second line of absolute in the first two stages. According to the director of the Sven Kwandt team, the decision was taken to avoid the risk of seriously damaging the car and engine of the third Mini. However, one crew of Boris GarafEvidence continued the race, because his BMW X3CC has another oil pump and there is no threat of breaking the engine. Garafclues showed the 6th time of the third day, ceding leader Bernardo Ten Brink to Mitsubishi Laser 22 minutes. Shadow Brinke records a second won stage at his own account and leads the absolute set-off. Garafclues the second half of the race. Rally finishes on Saturday, October 22Unlucky the winner of the stage Orlando Terraran. 30 km after the start, he made a mistake not writing in the trajectory, and hit the stones with a bent steering rod. The aid came from the Russian crew of Leonid Ogorodnikov and Konstantin Ziltsov, who gave the necessary spare parts, and Tarranov, having changed his traction, was able to continue the race and get to the finish line. The struggle against the Moroccan cogs by the 4-Rally team is continuing. Pavel Loughinov ascended to the 14th position after the third military phase and became the second in the class of diesel "supers", while Vadim Savelyev holds the fourth position in the category of standard vehicles. The race has broken the equator, but there are still many new tests and three combat days, so the sport intrigue is held at a high level and talking about the winners and prize-winners is still very early. 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