On 25-26 March the new Mecca of Russia’s rally raids the borough of Bologoye hosted the 2^nd stage of year 2005 All-Russia rally raids Championship. The event featured a new track, excellent weather and only half the participant roster (20 crews).

The good start in the preliminaries of the crews: Vladimir Tupenking / Andrei Rudnitski and Leonid Novitski / Oleg Tupenkin brought them, correspondingly, the 7^th and 8^th places on the starting line (the crew of Pavel Loginov / Andrei Neshin did not participate in the preliminaries and started in the race from the 20^th place).

Excellent performance of the crew P. Loginov / A. Neshin placed them 3^rd on the Podium in T1 Category.

The gentlemanly conduct of the crew of L.Novitski / O.Tupenkin (who rescued from the snow trap the crew of A.Bogdanov / A.Navrotski on the last lap) turned into a gift of the practically sure 3^rd place to the rescued crew in Category T2 and placed them only 4^th in the race.

And finally, breakage of the front axle of the Niva manned by V.Tupenkin / A.Rudnitski which made them leave the distance on the 2nd lap, left the team YAROVIT-ROSAGROLEASING in the honorary 3^rd place.