The leader of the "Nissan" team Christian Lavey and teammate Jean Michel Polat of France (right-left) at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Silk Way rally-ride on Moscow's Red Square. The participants in the 3,960-km race will drive through the cities of Lipetsk, Volgograd, Astrakhan, Stavropol and Maikop, finishing on July 16th in Sochi, the city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics.