Biography
To victory in the multi-day competition "Dakar-2021", the pilot of the KAMAZ-Master team, Dmitry Sotnikov, was 8 years old, his professional growth was noticeable every year. Now the athlete racing career has been waiting for the introduction of a new racing regulation of cargo rally, which will be able to raise sports and competition in it to a new level.Childhood and youth
Dmitry Sergeevich Sotnikov was born on May 29, 1985 in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny. Dmitry's mother - primary school teacher, father - sports judge, who fond of cars and motor racing, performed at the European Buggy Championship. Dmitry has an older sister developing his career in the linguistic direction.
In 5 years, his father began to take a boy with him on the winter racing. True, at that time, the baby themselves did not particularly interest, liked to mess around more. In a meaningful, the desire to participate in the following arrivals, when Dima saw that a TV could earn as a prize. The boy was 9 years old when the father recorded it to classes in the kart section, where the future rider really liked to manage the car, ride it.
By that time, his father and son were already passionate fans and carefully followed the ether of the auto racing on TV - Formula-1, karting, a classic rally. Observations were very useful, and the young attack began to receive top places in national competitions. Nevertheless, the sport and study of the rider could be combined sufficiently successfully. At 15, the centuries began to perform for the Junior team on the ring races of the micro-car plant.
Dmitry received at the Engineering and Economic Academy, then entered the Kamsky Polytechnic Institute with the specialty "Internal combustion engines". In 2008, the Racer entered the KAMAZ-Master club, where the father of Dmitry Sergei worked for a long time, thereby continuing the racing dynasty.
Race
In 2010, in the biography of Dmitry, the title of Russia champion in the racing class of Buggy appeared. Initially, the dream of an athlete was to develop in the direction of Formula 1, and only then it was possible to try a large truck. In the Marathon Rally, the centuries progressed from the mechanic to the senior pilot of the cargo racing car.At the expense of the crews of Sotnikov Victory on the many days of the "Silk Road" in 2013 and 2017, Africa Race in 2013, "Gold Kagan" in 2015, "Rally Kazakhstan" in 2019, as well as second places on auto racing Desert Challenge 2011 (mechanic in the team of Andrei Kanganova), "Silk Road" in 2016, "Gold Kagan" in 2019.
Sotnikov debuted at the prestigious Rally "Dakar" in the 2014 season, becoming 4th in the general classification and defeating in one of the tours. In 2017, the athlete came to the finish line the second, losing a colleague in the Kamaz Master club Eduard Nikolaev. Silver Bedouin - the second prize "Dakar", the athlete conquered again in 2019.
Dmitry Sotnikov - Master of Sports of International Class. In 2013, the pilot became the owner of a personal diploma with gratitude to President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, in 2017 he received the title of "Honored Worker of Transport of Tatarstan" and the medal "For Valiant Labor".
Personal life
Dmitry Sotnikov married. The wife of the pilot "KamAZ" name Olesya, December 9, 2015 their son Danil appeared on the world.
Often, the ricketer and his wife post a photo from personal life in instagram accounts. So, in the summer of 2019, the son of the athlete first swept on a racing truck, and in January 2021, an "Instagram" appeared a publication about the traditional companion rest in the ski resort in Elbrus.
Dmitry Sotnikov now
In 2021, Dmitry Sotnikov, finally, was able to head the rating of the multi-day Dakar and become the owner of the main prize of the rally. The crew, which also included Ruslan Ahmadeev and Ilgiz Ahmetzyanov, became the winner at the 4 stages of the race. In the competition of trucks, KamAZ crews took all the steps on the podium - Anton Sibalov became the second, Bronze received Ayrat Mardeev. For the Russian racing team, this title is already the 18th.
After the finish, the pilot noted that he considers victory to be the highest achievement in his career, equivalent victory at the Olympic Games in other athletes. Dmitry dedicated this success to Father and efforts invested by parents in his studies in childhood. Sotnikov noted that the prize - the Golden Bedouin will remain in the team, and only a copy will go to the personal collection of a rider.
On February 3, Dmitry, along with other Russian winners, Dakar, Vladimir Chagin and Edward Nikolaev, became a guest of the Evening Urgant program on the first channel. And in the summer of the same year, with the participation of Nikolaev, the series "Master" was published, declared by the creators as "the world's first series about the rally-raid."