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IRC Rally RUSSIA 2008 (RallyRUS reports archive page):
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2008 galleries:
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“Russia 2008” rally. Evgeny Novikov.

http://www.bestpics.ru/full/nov-russia08-small.jpgTo make a forecast in a rally is an ungrateful matter. The experience of the last year performance when...

Thank you, friends!

I think, one of the best pictures of the rally: Novikov on SS12...
(Photo by Alexander Shapovalov, RallyRUS)

http://www.bestpics.ru/full/novikov-ss12.jpg

And, of course. Big thanks to members of RallyRUS team:

Pavel Nizkin (Moscow) - reporter, photographer, web-master;
Vladimir Perov (Moscow) - translator;
Ilja Fedorov (Saint-Petersburg) -...

I'm at home in Saint-Petersburg, Chevyvan... also at home, rally-pine-tree - in Chevyvan... We did it!

Few days after the rally we'll publish some news and galleries on RallyRUS site. I'd like to...

What happened on the SS11 I don't know yet, but this is photo from SS12, where Novikov drive without wheel with fantastic speed...

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Novikov fighted up to the end - he flyed on three wheels through the stage and stopped only when all gasolin went out through the broken fuel tank...

39 crews on the SS12 finish (40 km to go to the service). From 71 started in the rally 30 teams continued the rally with superrally, some of them twice. Time interval from Hanninen (1st) to Gorchakov...

JEAN-JOSEPH finishes between Kopecky and Trabassi

online works...

Kopecki 1:04,1/17,8
Trabassi 2:02,1/58,0

SS12: wins Hanninen. 10,6 Alen 16,9/6,0 Basso 34,9/18,0 Loix 46,3/11,4 VOUILLOZ

Tomi! If you see pine, it means, that somewhere near is RallyRUS! Someone have cats, someone - dogs. And in our Chevyvan lives real pine-tree! It feels very good and travelled with us 15000 km this...

Organizers gave to Alen 5 minutes interval to start SS12 - because of Novikov's problems.

Novikov - lost right rear wheel. It is 40 km from the SS finish to service park...

On the last stage: Novikov goes without one wheel...

On SS 11 Novikov brakes the door and the suspension arm. In overall he's still second, but we don't know what happened... On SS12 some spectators put on the road stones... made from foam plastic and...

Tom! We have different roads there: with ditches, without ditches, with ditches along and across the road... :) Different roads.

Some photos from midday service (nearly online, I'm the quickest there! :) )

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Roads, roads... Photos are taken with mobile phone camera.

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The second stage off the day (and fourth one) is shortened because of the roed conditions...

Good morning :)
I came to Vyborg. Morning service, if you please:

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Excuse me, friends. May I put some news? :)

Triumph and disasters of Russian favorites …

Evgeny Novikov has continued his ascent at the famous “Topolki” special stage - he credited to his...

SS7 is stopped because of the crash on the road. Nobody wounded, but the car blocked the road. Evgeny Vertunov (www.vertunov.com) broke the engine with big stone (out of the rally), also on this...

What an interesting times!

12th in overall is Aleksey Sokurenko on standart Lancer Evo9. On the 13 place after 6 stages - Andrey Evdokimov on Evo5. And on the 6th stage Zvagolskiy (national R11...