WABCO Holdings Inc. announced that WABCO is a long term supplier to the KAMAZ-Master team of heavy-duty trucks providing its most advanced, high performance braking technology. KAMAZ-Master, the Russian national off-road truck rally team, recently won Dakar 2009, the world’s most challenging endurance rally.
Equipped with WABCO’s high air delivery performance compressors, WABCO Tristop Cylinders, a piston-type spring brake cylinders; and WABCO foot and hand brake valves, KAMAZ-Master trucks finished in first, second and fourth place at Dakar 2009, an unprecedented three positions in the first four places. Dakar 2009 marked the eighth time that KAMAZ-Master is the winner of the Dakar competition. WABCO has been supplying KAMAZ-Master trucks for more than 10 years.
“KAMAZ-Master is universally recognized as one of the world’s best teams in commercial truck sports. Staying at the top of major international championships year after year requires excellent teamwork and superlative vehicle performance,” said Semyon Yakubov, general manager of KAMAZ-Master Team. “WABCO helps keep KAMAZ-Master in the winner’s circle by contributing outstanding quality and reliability in its products and services on a continual basis.”
Formed in 1988, KAMAZ-Master team represents KAMAZ, the largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles in the Russian Federation. WABCO began supplying KAMAZ in 1992 and currently provides anti-lock braking systems, electronically controlled air suspensions, as well as components for brake and gear box control.
