Ruslan Furundzhi - about race and new Isuzu D-Max
Monday, 25 May 2009 23:17

How did the race evolve for you?
Ruslan Furundzhi: Unfortunately, we didn't make it to the finish - lost a driveshaft in the forest. It's a pity, of course, but it didn't prevent us of completing our task. In principle, the main objective was to discover the car's potential for future races, and from this point of view we managed to do so. And though we didn't reach the finish, we picked up enough information and got first impressions.
Why didn't finish? What happened?

The car. Please tell us more about it...
Ruslan Furundzhi: Isuzu D-Max is a wonderful car, which completely turned our view on the Production class (T2) upside down. Gentle, solid, powerful, easy in handling, agile. It forgives many mistakes, turns precisely where you steer it - I liked the car really much. Where on our old car we would have definitely rolled, on Isuzu we drove and didn't even notice how. Initially we had doubts about torsions in front and leaf springs in the rear, but the suspension proved to provide a great level of grip. By the way, we took off the road many times! Isuzu perfectly jumps and lands on all four wheels. And it doesn't bounce after landing, but kinda adheres to the road. A very spectacular drive! Now we're negotiating with Boris Gadasin. We think about buying such a car. I want to continue...