2025 Silk Way Rally: K-MAN Powers Kamaz to Sweep Podium with First, Second, and Third Place

Glory Moment, Crowned Champions!
At the 2025 Silk Road Rally, three Kamaz race trucks equipped with K-MAN shock absorbers dominated the podium, sweeping the top three positions with absolute dominance. This marks not only another victory for the Kamaz team but also a powerful demonstration of China's independently developed shock absorber technology on the world's premier racing stage—K-MAN continues to push the boundaries of its own technical standards.

Silk Way Rally: One of the world's premier international off-road rallies. This edition features a nearly 5,000-kilometer course, 11 days of extreme challenges, traversing the uninhabited regions of Russia and Mongolia, and all-terrain conditions—a ultimate test for drivers, vehicles, and logistics.
KAMAZ-Master Team: Globally recognized as the world's top racing team, the undisputed champion of the Dakar Rally, and a legend in the truck racing world.

Shock Absorbers: A critical component for race cars, arguably the very soul of a vehicle. The fact that all top international racing teams proactively choose one brand of shock absorbers points to only one possibility: proven reliability.

K-MAN: In 2023, while Kamaz sought superior suppliers globally, K-MAN came into their sights.

After a full year of tuning and race-based testing, K-MAN officially joined the Silk Way Rally as Kamaz's strategic partner.

The event has now concluded perfectly. K-MAN has lived up to Kamaz's trust: out of the five Kamaz trucks competing, the three equipped with K-MAN shock absorbers swept the top three positions!

This is no coincidence, but a testament to our technological prowess.

Fifteen years ago, when the K-MAN brand was first established, founder Jiang Taiyun declared with conviction: “China needs its own world-class brand in the shock absorber industry. K-MAN will be that brand.”

Back then, the journey was arduous, and this goal seemed like a pipe dream.

Yet just six years ago, K-MAN made its Dakar Rally debut, propelling Han Wei Racing to the best-ever finish by a Chinese team that year. Since then, it has consistently partnered with international teams to break records year after year.

For fifteen years, K-MAN has remained steadfast in its approach: treating the racetrack as its laboratory, validating technology through competition, and using track insights to fuel iterative innovation.

Step by step, it has earned the recognition of an ever-growing number of elite racing teams through sheer capability.

The bold promises once made have now become reality.

In this year's competition, we were surprised to discover that the Tank 300—which has consecutively won the Grand Touring Experience category—also features K-MAN shock absorbers.
Domestic off-road vehicles and domestic shock absorbers are now shining together on the global stage.
This is the pride of China's intelligent manufacturing!

As the event drew to a close, teams from multiple countries approached the distinctive red Chinese service vehicle, extending olive branches to K-MAN in pursuit of collaboration.
Clearly, over ten days of extreme testing and the praise from Kamaz drivers had demonstrated the world the strength of China's shock absorber technology.

The Kamaz trophy marks a milestone in K-MAN's global journey, yet it is far from the final destination.
While the trophy symbolizes honor, technological evolution remains the core: validating technology on the racetrack, forging the most reliable products through the harshest competitions, and feeding back into civilian applications to iterate and continuously surpass our own technical standards.

In the future, K-MAN will continue to use the racetrack as its crucible, forging the most reliable products in the most demanding arenas. This enables cutting-edge technology to benefit civilian applications while continuously pushing industry standards.

From the Silk Road to Dakar, from Made in China to Smart Manufacturing in China, K-MAN is joining hands with global partners to write an Eastern technological legend on the world stage.

This is not merely the evolution of shock absorbers; it is the glorious journey of a national brand ascending to global prominence.