Trophy-raid "Ladoga". Bashny.Net

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A month ago, I found a "fighting" machine at the warehouse, where it stood for more than 5 years without any movement. Nostalgia spilled nervous trembling loins. I wanted again to the forest to feed the hungry during our absence of mosquitoes. After discussing this possibility with the navigator for a glass of Australian Shiraz we decided: Let's go! The choice fell on Ladoga, perhaps the most iconic and massive off-road competition in Russia ...

A small introduction for those who are not familiar with the Trophy. By and large, trophy - a movement of like-minded, united love for overcoming obstacles to all-wheel drive cars.





"Mud puddle" in trofistov taken together, what they are going to all sorts of "pokatushki" trips and competitions. If pokatushki in no limit of participants and their cars, the competition has "Rules" - a set of laws and rules by which it is held. There are several types of competitions in terms of complexity. There are club competitions organized by different off-road clubs have competitions Russian Cup and Championship of Russia, under the auspices of the RAF.

Cars taking part in official competitions are divided into classes, and must meet certain requirements. In a class of TS-1 production cars perform almost without modification. In a class of TS-2 allowed larger diameter wheels and a TS-3 class act "prototypes", bears little resemblance to familiar to us car.

In addition to sports classes, Ladoga offered several tourist, where there is no strict limitations. Stood aloof class Grand Tourism, where we recorded. There may participate in any all-wheel drive car. Stopwatch on SS does not tick. Each day, the participants can choose several routes to choose from - green, yellow or red - depending on the desire to "pokolbasitsya" and the degree of preparation of the car.

In sports, we did not go as, firstly, we do not have the safety cage, and, secondly, because we are tired of the mud, swamps and mosquitoes. We wanted to enjoy the nature of Karelia, make beautiful pictures and relax, and not to come every evening to the base camp and fall face down in a tent, falling asleep under podzvyakivanie tools mechanics, resulting in a sense of our car. During this time, all we had to endure mocking and contemptuous eyes bewildered "athletes" who do not understand that we have forgotten this "kindergarten". We did not mind, we rested.

Before each competition, you and your car must pass a technical commission, where you have to check the size of the wheels, the number of winches and a medical certificate. To begin, we passed the initial registration and received final clearance



Here we were given stickers sponsors and we went to "paste»:



Around the cars were varying degrees of preparation, waiting their turn at the technical commission:



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After "pasting" we arrived at the Technical Commissioner. By Grand Tourists are no special requirements. So our disconnect switch we did not have to demonstrate, and athletes are regularly sent to the sump to eliminate shortcomings:



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Pre atmosphere reigned. Everyone was smiling, hugging and anticipated race:



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The next morning, all the participants gathered at the square in front of St. Isaac's Cathedral - here started 13th Ladoga:



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Machines lined up in rows, and looked surprised viewers:



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Here I saw a Subaru Forester, who spoke to us in the same class. Looking ahead, I will say that they were very worthy:



This machine Estonian crew, with whom we became friends during the competition. The boys were not looking for easy ways in anything:



Girls were photographed against a background of monsters:



ATVeshniki huddled together in a single flock:



Exactly at 10 am on the podium were officials, including Yuri Ovchinnikov - the main organizer of this competition:



This year in Ladoga participated 160 cars from 13 countries, almost a third of whom spoke with us in the Grand Touring. There were participants from Finland, Great Britain, Belgium, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and even Georgia. Orations ended launch balls:



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