With the trophy-raid Dune and beach races and a huge bonfire

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Dune and beach races and a huge bonfire

Beach and dune race - the most spectacular part of the competition. As you might guess from the title, the race is a beach on the edge of Lake Ladoga, and the machine periodically forced to fly into the water, splashing fountains raising. Dune trail passes a little to the side, on large sandy slopes. Cars roared trying to overcome the steep slopes, throwing kilograms of sand from under their wheels ...

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Each camp organizers have established an information board, where all the results were posted, newsletters and announcements:



Sometimes you come across a very funny ads. I imagine an athlete running around the swamp in shales:



According to the regulations, first it had to pass a beach race, and then dyunnuyu. And in the one and in the other it was necessary ulozhitsya less than 4 minutes. The first route launched on the Grand Tourists. For tourists, it was the two major races, as they were for a time, and the result was involved in determining the winner of the whole competition. Looking ahead to say that the results of the beach and dune race we were on the 5th place. From 4 th place we have separated the 1 tenth of a second! From second place in the two races we have lagged behind by only 1, 2 seconds! The results were very tight, and the organizers were determined tenths, I do not understand, because at the start of the race gave us dyunnuyu approximately as follows: "So what? Ready? Well then, let's! »

Before the arrival of the first participants on the beach were a lot of photos and videoreporterov:



The bravest even got into the water:



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and we started quadric:



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For athletes went quadrics:



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Those who have traveled plyazhku, moved up to the start of the dune race:



When driving on sand plays a decisive role horsepower. Sand - granular substance. "The tightness" for him not go, so you need to quickly turn the very large and deflated wheel. That is why vehicles with a powerful gasoline engine, such as Hummer, have an advantage in the sand:



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Crews from the UK:



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In the meantime, continued to cut up on the beach the water surface of the athletes. At the start of my favorite crew went to Inna and Constantine Martyanova:



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The whole day was drizzling rain, occasionally developing into a downpour. By the start of the prototypes at the beach is almost nobody left:



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Polish crew:



And it carried the winner of Lake Ladoga in the monstrous standings - TR-3 PROTO:



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Meanwhile, on the dune race roaring engine crew from Estonia:



But Belarusian trofistov no luck. They do not calculate the speed and lay down on his side, did not fit into the rotation:



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Monsters lined up to race
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In the evening, the organizers decided to make a fire for us, and bring us to the wood charged. Each team had to bring the fire log at least 10 centimeters in diameter and a length of at least 1 meter. It was another tehetap, for which we received a pass / fail, as well as for the "wheel" on the third day. We decided to bring a log a little more and make it a couple of candles:



We otpili 1/3 of it and put candles in different places. Then make 4 deep cutting through and poured into a little solarium that tree flared up soaked and better:



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In the evening, they come in handy, because the fire for a long time did not want to inflame all clustered around candles:



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Organizers tried to inspire the fire by pouring it from the gas canisters. Sometimes it ended in failure, and the fire spread to the canister:



Somewhere in an hour logs dried out and began to happily spit out sparks of himself:



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Read in the next series of raging Ladoga, about tehetape Sandy-Truckee quest last day, another ford bonus and night orienteering. Stay Tuned!



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