RE: Kamaz Master Dakar Truck: Pic of the Week
Friday 8th December 2017
The Dakar Rally is definitely amongst the most gruelling automotive events in the world, and Eduard Nikolaev has won it twice. His first victory came in 2013 with the second happening at the start of this year for team Kamaz in the truck category.
Kamaz Master Dakar Truck: Pic of the Week
Oh what fun it is to ride in a 980 horsepower sleigh...
Instead of basking in the glory though, he's been back out testing his truck in the extreme cold weather conditions of Murmansk. Well within the Arctic Circle, average temperatures here rarely reach above freezing until mid-July. Luckily his Kamaz-4326 truck features a 16-litre 980hp diesel engine, suspension with 30cm of travel, and tyres with 216 spikes each, enough to allow the plucky Russian driver to hit a snow jump at 140km/h before flying 37 metres through the air.
It would be a spectacular enough feat for any vehicle, but to see a 10.5-ton truck with 1,000-litres of fuel on board soaring through the air is quite a spectacle indeed. Oh, and if a Pic of the Week isn't enough, we also have the video of the jump too. Enjoy!
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The trucks are waaaaay my favourite category in the Dakar, but awesome as they are they still aren't as awesome as the trucks of old like the DAF turbotwin - some of them could be driven from either end and they were so fast it was crazy - the thing is that they were too fast and people got killed (this resulted in DAF pulling out of the Dakar for many years).
There's a classic video of Jan de Rooy steaming past Ari Vatenens 405 in the desert, they're both going flat out and the truck is outdragging the car. Fantastic!
Video here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
210kmh on sand! The crash (shown at the end) is why they're restricted now.
From Jalopnik... 150mph!!!!
How do you make an 11-ton truck go 150 mph? Two 11.6-liter diesel engines, each fed by three turbochargers, producing 1,200 horsepower and a space-time-ripping 3,466 lb-ft of torque. EACH. That's 2,400 hp and near-as-dirt 7,000 lb-ft. It also had a lightweight aluminum spaceframe, which counteracted the weight of all that mid-mounted diesel powah.
Sadly, one of DAF's two competing trucks went into a 100-mph somersault during the 7th stage of the 1988 Paris-Dakar Rally. The subsequent crash killed co-driver Kees Van Loevezijn. After that, DAF Trucks withdrew from Dakar competition.
There's a classic video of Jan de Rooy steaming past Ari Vatenens 405 in the desert, they're both going flat out and the truck is outdragging the car. Fantastic!
Video here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
210kmh on sand! The crash (shown at the end) is why they're restricted now.
From Jalopnik... 150mph!!!!
How do you make an 11-ton truck go 150 mph? Two 11.6-liter diesel engines, each fed by three turbochargers, producing 1,200 horsepower and a space-time-ripping 3,466 lb-ft of torque. EACH. That's 2,400 hp and near-as-dirt 7,000 lb-ft. It also had a lightweight aluminum spaceframe, which counteracted the weight of all that mid-mounted diesel powah.
Sadly, one of DAF's two competing trucks went into a 100-mph somersault during the 7th stage of the 1988 Paris-Dakar Rally. The subsequent crash killed co-driver Kees Van Loevezijn. After that, DAF Trucks withdrew from Dakar competition.
Edited by Dog Star on Friday 8th December 10:10
Dog Star said:
Video here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdp
I'd say the mahoosive understeer straight towards the crowd at 30mph near the start of the video was more perturbing to be honest!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdp
Dog Star said:
The trucks are waaaaay my favourite category in the Dakar, but awesome as they are they still aren't as awesome as the trucks of old like the DAF turbotwin - some of them could be driven from either end and they were so fast it was crazy - the thing is that they were too fast and people got killed (this resulted in DAF pulling out of the Dakar for many years).
There's a classic video of Jan de Rooy steaming past Ari Vatenens 405 in the desert, they're both going flat out and the truck is outdragging the car. Fantastic!
Video here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
210kmh on sand! The crash (shown at the end) is why they're restricted now.
From Jalopnik... 150mph!!!!
How do you make an 11-ton truck go 150 mph? Two 11.6-liter diesel engines, each fed by three turbochargers, producing 1,200 horsepower and a space-time-ripping 3,466 lb-ft of torque. EACH. That's 2,400 hp and near-as-dirt 7,000 lb-ft. It also had a lightweight aluminum spaceframe, which counteracted the weight of all that mid-mounted diesel powah.
Sadly, one of DAF's two competing trucks went into a 100-mph somersault during the 7th stage of the 1988 Paris-Dakar Rally. The subsequent crash killed co-driver Kees Van Loevezijn. After that, DAF Trucks withdrew from Dakar competition.
The trucks were just absolutely bonkers in the Paris Dakar, at one stage they were the most captivating vehicles running.There's a classic video of Jan de Rooy steaming past Ari Vatenens 405 in the desert, they're both going flat out and the truck is outdragging the car. Fantastic!
Video here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
210kmh on sand! The crash (shown at the end) is why they're restricted now.
From Jalopnik... 150mph!!!!
How do you make an 11-ton truck go 150 mph? Two 11.6-liter diesel engines, each fed by three turbochargers, producing 1,200 horsepower and a space-time-ripping 3,466 lb-ft of torque. EACH. That's 2,400 hp and near-as-dirt 7,000 lb-ft. It also had a lightweight aluminum spaceframe, which counteracted the weight of all that mid-mounted diesel powah.
Sadly, one of DAF's two competing trucks went into a 100-mph somersault during the 7th stage of the 1988 Paris-Dakar Rally. The subsequent crash killed co-driver Kees Van Loevezijn. After that, DAF Trucks withdrew from Dakar competition.
Edited by Dog Star on Friday 8th December 10:10
The trucks have always interested me and it always amazes me how fast they can shift!
)
One of his famous moments I can remember being told was when a drivers brake pads on the lorry needed changing as they were on the metal and his response was "whats the problem? trains have run like that for years"
An incredibly interesting bloke by all accounts who was a pioneer in transport innovation.
I used to see this at truck shows when I was younger, strange looking thing
Dog Star said:
The trucks are waaaaay my favourite category in the Dakar, but awesome as they are they still aren't as awesome as the trucks of old like the DAF turbotwin - some of them could be driven from either end and they were so fast it was crazy - the thing is that they were too fast and people got killed (this resulted in DAF pulling out of the Dakar for many years).
There's a classic video of Jan de Rooy steaming past Ari Vatenens 405 in the desert, they're both going flat out and the truck is outdragging the car. Fantastic!
Video here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
210kmh on sand! The crash (shown at the end) is why they're restricted now.
From Jalopnik... 150mph!!!!
How do you make an 11-ton truck go 150 mph? Two 11.6-liter diesel engines, each fed by three turbochargers, producing 1,200 horsepower and a space-time-ripping 3,466 lb-ft of torque. EACH. That's 2,400 hp and near-as-dirt 7,000 lb-ft. It also had a lightweight aluminum spaceframe, which counteracted the weight of all that mid-mounted diesel powah.
Sadly, one of DAF's two competing trucks went into a 100-mph somersault during the 7th stage of the 1988 Paris-Dakar Rally. The subsequent crash killed co-driver Kees Van Loevezijn. After that, DAF Trucks withdrew from Dakar competition.
Jan de rooy was a character indeed, My Granddad worked for his dutch Transport company years ago (still going I believe and forever being pulled in by DVSA for all sort of offences There's a classic video of Jan de Rooy steaming past Ari Vatenens 405 in the desert, they're both going flat out and the truck is outdragging the car. Fantastic!
Video here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
210kmh on sand! The crash (shown at the end) is why they're restricted now.
From Jalopnik... 150mph!!!!
How do you make an 11-ton truck go 150 mph? Two 11.6-liter diesel engines, each fed by three turbochargers, producing 1,200 horsepower and a space-time-ripping 3,466 lb-ft of torque. EACH. That's 2,400 hp and near-as-dirt 7,000 lb-ft. It also had a lightweight aluminum spaceframe, which counteracted the weight of all that mid-mounted diesel powah.
Sadly, one of DAF's two competing trucks went into a 100-mph somersault during the 7th stage of the 1988 Paris-Dakar Rally. The subsequent crash killed co-driver Kees Van Loevezijn. After that, DAF Trucks withdrew from Dakar competition.
Edited by Dog Star on Friday 8th December 10:10
)One of his famous moments I can remember being told was when a drivers brake pads on the lorry needed changing as they were on the metal and his response was "whats the problem? trains have run like that for years"
An incredibly interesting bloke by all accounts who was a pioneer in transport innovation.
I used to see this at truck shows when I was younger, strange looking thing
If you like truck jumping, this never fails to impress me....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB02Gd_yC_g&t=...
All new fans, out your hands up....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB02Gd_yC_g&t=...
All new fans, out your hands up....
to be honest, its the trucks and the bikes that make the dakar more than the cars. Hino v Kamaz, epic battle.
http://www.hino-global.com/dakar/
http://www.hino-global.com/dakar/
MerriDave said:
If you like truck jumping, this never fails to impress me....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB02Gd_yC_g&t=...
All new fans, out your hands up....
I love these, they've got Robbie Gordon racing in the series: nuff said.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB02Gd_yC_g&t=...
All new fans, out your hands up....
I wish they'd bring them to the UK.
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