There are many examples when sportsmen change rally into rally-raids. And the fate of such drivers could be quite different but sometimes such specific knowledge and experience give advantage.

Krzystof Holowczyc, on his Northern Forest debut, won the stage. The Polish driver took advantage of his experience – he has won the European Rally Championship and has competed in several rounds of the World Rally Championship's.

The main favorite, last year winner, Boris Gadasin took the second time behind the Polish driver. The Russian has good experience of rally-raids and rallies - in 2009 he won the Northwestern Federal District rally. The driver of the G-Force Motorsport Team lost 2.5 seconds.

Double-winner of the Russian Rally Championship Alexander Zheludov came in 3d, 4.2 seconds behind the leader.

Yaroslav Solovjev and Alexander Mironenko were the 4th and 5th on the SSS. And again these are drivers participating in rally-raids and in rallies.

And a "pure" raid-driver got only the 6th place. Balazs Szalay, whose participation on the Baja Northern Forest is the first one, lost 16.2 seconds to the leader.

6 seconds behind the Hungarian driver Pavel Loginov finished with the famous rally co-driver Andrey Rusov who won with Alexander Zheludov the Russian Rally Championship.

The best participant of Group T2 was Viktor Volikov. His production class Toyota Land Cruiser finished 27 seconds behind of the SSS winner's Nissan Navarra prototype.

Nuno Matos (three time Portuguese champion), who had started on snow and ice surface for the first time, got the 9th place in the FIA International Cup and the 2d one in Group T2. He lost only 1.5 seconds. That's good for a debut!

Roman Briskindinov whose first participation in the Russian Rally-raid Championship closed the TOP10 with 7 seconds behind the nearest competitor in Group T1.

In 11th time was UAZ Team racer Binjamin Dzhepaev, the first in Group N. And that was a strong struggle from the very first SS. Sergey Savenko finished with 1.5 seconds behind and experienced Yury Borovikov a further 0.7 seconds back.

Vilcanc Aldis is leader in the Group R with a 12 second advantage over Alexander Sokolov.