The KAMAZ-43509 that won the 2020 Dakar Rally’s Truck class has been sold for 100 million rubles (roughly USD$1,294,480 as of this article’s publication). The sale was facilitated on Avito.ru, a classified advertisements site and team sponsor since February.

Built in 2017, the 43509 was primarily driven by Andrey Karginov. He won the 2018 Silk Way Rally with it before finishing second the following year, then brought the truck to Saudi Arabia for the Dakar Rally in 2020. There, he won seven of 12 stages to claim the Truck overall in a 1–2 finish for KAMAZ. The victory was his second at Dakar and 17th for KAMAZ-master.

Karginov continued to race the 43509 in the 2021 and 2022 Dakar Rallies. He finished fourth in the most recent Dakar for the team.

The 4×4 truck is powered by the 12.9-liter Dongfeng Cummins-DCE ISZ13 diesel engine, a turbocharged unit with six cylinders and producing 1,050 horsepower. It tops out at 165 kilometers per hour and weighs in at 8,530 kilograms.

However, its livery is not the same as when it won Dakar: instead of Red Bull, it features Gazprom branding like other trucks currently in the KAMAZ-master lineup. Red Bull used to sponsor the team during their Dakar days, but the energy drink company withdrew its support following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. KAMAZ-master’s parent company is partly owned by the Russian government and builds vehicles for their military.

Besides being barred from running FIA-sanctioned events like Dakar, the fallout from the invasion led to nearly all of the team’s foreign sponsors backing out. As KAMAZ-master switched to domestic production, they put some of their rally trucks up for sale to afford the transition.

For example, a 2007 KAMAZ-4326 that appeared at Dakar thrice with Ilgizar Mardeev, Sergey Kupriyanov, and Dmitry Sotnikov before being converted into a gas-diesel truck was sold for ₽10.4 million (approximately USD$134,663 today and $94,967.39 in early March 2022, a week after the invasion). A 2004 KAMAZ-4911 that won the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge three times went for ₽8.2 million ($106,146.44 today and $74,878.14 in 2022).

Another 43509 went for 60 million rubles ($7.76 million today, $547,888.80 at the time).

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