Short facts:
Date of birth: 01.07.1968
Place of birth: Cheliabinsk / RUS
Place of residence: Moscow / RUS
Family status: married
Hobbies: sailing, skiing, rock music, walking in the mountains
Leonid Novitskiy is the leading Russian Cross-Country ace and clinched the 2010 and 2011 FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup. The Russian contested the
2009 Dakar Rally for Team X-raid to finish eight in the overall ranking and later in the year, he came runner-up in the Morocco Rally, thus celebrating a stunning comeback in his first appearance following a high-speed accident in the 2009 Libya Tunisia Rally. Novitskiy and Schulz were a regular pairing from the 2009 Morocco Rally to the 2012 Dakar Rally. There, Novitskiy finished fourth, thus celebrating his best Dakar result in his career to date.
Summary of his Rally Experience:
2012
- 4th Dakar
2011
- 1st place FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies
- 1st OiLibiya Tunisia Rallye
- 2nd Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge
- 2nd Italian Baja
- Rally Dakar
2010
- 1st place FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies
- 2nd OiLibya Rally of Morocco
- 2nd Baja Espana Aragon
- 1st Rally TT Vodafone Estoril-Portimão-Marrakech
- 3rd OilLibya Rally of Tunisia 2010
- 1st Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge
- 11th Dakar
2009
- 2nd Shamrock - Rally du Maroc
- 8th Dakar 2009 (Argentina - Chile)
2008
- 2nd Hungarian Baja
- 4th Baja Spain
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