"Russian Breakthrough" change the route due to the cancellation of "Dakar»

Launched on January 4 in Moscow, a transcontinental car race "Russian breakthrough» c involving four domestic vehicles, change your route due to the volatile situation in Mauritania and the cancellation of "Dakar-2008". According to the route, participants of the expedition 65 days to cross the 35 states of the European and African continents, traveling a total of about 40 000 km. It was planned that the participants in the rally will be met and support the Russian team "Kamaz-Master", which participates in the famous marathon "Lisbon-Dakar-2008". In connection with the events that led to the abolition of 30th anniversary race, "the Paris-Dakar", the Organizing Committee and participants of the event decided to develop and approve a motion mashrut columns according to the current adjustments. "Russian Breakthrough 2008" - this is the second rally-raid-made cars to Africa, organized by LLC "Industrial Group" (Chairman of the organizing committee of the project and General Manager - Gotovtsev Vyacheslav). This year, the column is 4 car. Among them - the two versions based on the production of LADA partner of AvtoVAZ. This LADA 4x4 SUV in a complete «News Hunter» AvtoVAZ subsidiary of the company "Bronte" and the original development of "motility" - the car "Pilgrim", created in 2002 based on the LADA 4x4 with body LADA 110. Two other off-road vehicle - cars Chevrolet Niva Trophy produce GM-AVTOVAZ. In different parts of the route the team will be GM-AVTOVAZ director of engineering at Helmut Frommann, Quality Director John Slack, manager of Experimental and Advanced Engineering Vadim Klassen and manager of corporate and export sales Artem Dybo. Participants of the 1st stage run: Gotovtsev V. Moscow - Senior column (Chevrolet Niva 1); Kovalyov Moscow - Rescue Emergency physician (Chevrolet Niva 1); Kostyuk O. Togliatti - driver / mechanic / test (Chevrolet Niva 2); Komilchu B. Podolsk - director / cameraman (Chevrolet Niva 2); Kozhemyakin T. Podolsk - Head of Media Center (Niva 4x4), D. Davidov Podolsk - photo / video operator (Niva 4x4); Serge Michel Cameroon - translator (Niva 4x4).