"Ladoga 2011" or how to ride through the swamp Bashny.Net

Writes Sergey Dolya:

The trophy all the cars are divided into classes so that the chances of winning are not dependent on the readiness of the vehicle. Each class goes on his route. On the first day of Ladoga, we decided to look at the class TP2 - produced sports cars with small alterations - and straight from St. Isaac's Square, which was the start of the competition, went after them into the swamp.

The first day of competition is always different from the rest - all athletes eager for the fight, everyone sees himself champion, each laid out on the full. Unfortunately, this often leads to nervousness and common error in piloting, so on the first day at the track especially a lot of funny things happen ...
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Every day, the athletes had to overcome at the time of one or more special stages. Between them and the stretch of the camp is not a stopwatch ticking.

The first special stage began with stone trial - the participants stormed the cliffs:

In the competition there as an individual set-off, where every machine for myself and the team, where athletes into groups of 3 cars and help each other

All the different attitudes to race: someone came here to win and carried around the track at breakneck speed, while others, such as the team from Denmark, to have fun.

Danes drove slowly in front of every obstacle, all three cars stopped, navigators jumped out of the car and going for a consultation. After deciding each machine carefully performed over a hurdle

Ladoga is famous for its swamps, and practically every day athletes trying not to drown them in their cars

Swamp - a former lake, which is overgrown with grass and mud. Where Tina thicker, you can safely walk, where thinner - you can fall. When you walk on the thin parts of the earth for you a spring and divergent waves in different directions.

In overcoming the swamps running mate before the machine and choose the place tougher

Each crew consists of a pilot and a navigator. The pilot sits in the car and turns the steering wheel, and the navigator tells him where to go. In the case of obstacles navigator out of the car and on foot looking for the best way to travel.

Some credit classes are allowed to have several co-drivers in the crew

Earlier, at a time when we participated in the Trophy, the pilot communicated with the navigator through ora and signs with his hands. Now more and more co-pilot and navigator, communicate with each other by radio with voice-activated

Swans on the swamp can only be stunted trees, and they pulled out on the one-two:

very popular sendtraki - pieces of aluminum with holes. The car put on them with the help of the winch, and then trying to go through the swamp no incision turf

The most unpleasant - is to pull out of the submerged sendtraki track to overtake them and the car in time to enclose them in front of the wheels

The first rule of driving on a bog - a deflated wheel. You will not believe how much change the permeability of the car at a pressure of 0 to 5 atmospheres. Wheels thus strongly plyuyuschatsya and bends sharply in the corners. On a hard surface at a pressure very carefully turn the steering wheel as the wheels can razbortirovatsya - that is disconnected from the tire rim and the air completely out

For performance class cars TR2 is always interesting to watch, especially in the first day of competition, when the pilots still do not feel their cars. Usually, the experience they have is not very much and they make a lot of mistakes. In this way they are very different from athletes at the monsters.

Those are more like a shark killer - do not make any unnecessary movements, travel vnatyag. If you sat down at once unwound winch, not zakapytvayutsya trying to leave vraskachku. Because of this, despite the fact that cars have abruptly athletes and dirt on the tracks deep, their performances less than spectacular.

More beautiful than any made by my fellow countrymen from Moscow Defender

guys flew "the result" and decided not to take the time to mate legs went through the swamp to the machine. As a result, fell into wormwood

How do the professionals in this situation? They immediately take out the hijack, lift the face of the car and go on lebdke through the block. What to do guys? That's right, they first broke several cables on the winch before seen that hijack still have to get:

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Meanwhile, the car began to suck and water got into the cabin. To prevent this, guys zalebedilis rear winch behind the counter and began to dig out the car's face