Владимир Чагин ещё раз покарил Дакар !

[Andrei]

501 - ONE VICTORY AND MANY RECORDS FOR CHAGIN!

With a final time of 55h04’47, Russia’s Vladimir Chagin (Kamaz) wins the 2010 Dakar in the truck category, 1h13’08 ahead of his teammate and countryman Firdaus Kabirov (Kamaz) and 10h43’20 ahead of Dutchman Marcel Van Vliet (Ginaf)... The "Tsar" gets his sixth victory in a Dakar after winnint the 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006 editions and catches up with Czech driver Karel Loprais in terms of final victory records. Additional cherry on the cake, with 9 new stage victories this year in special stages, Chagin becomes the absolute stage victory record holder in the Dakar with a total of 56 stages won, i.e. one more than French driver Stéphane Peterhansel... 9 stage victories in this 32nd edition that allow the Russian to also establish a record of number of truck stage victories in the same edition of a Dakar. Finally, this victory by Chagin is also the ninth victory of Kamaz in a Dakar, another record; the team from Tatarstan has - by the way - also won ALL the special stages of this 32nd edition.