Sun and rain, accidents and triumphs, racing tension and relaxation in the fan zone — the Smolensk Festival of Speed was rated over 5 thousand fans.
Participants of the G-Drive series SMP RSKG Touring had six races on the Smolensky Ring, scoring points towards the championship and the Russian Cup, as well as the RAF Cup. Saturday sun was replaced by Sunday rain, but it did not frighten motorsport fans. And the changeable coverage, to their delight, made pilots look for non-standard solutions — and not everyone was lucky to find them.
In SMP TCR Russia(Touring) both races were won by Dmitry Bragin (Cupra Leon, TAIF Motorsport): Saturday's race from pole position, and Sunday race from 10th place! He was the only one who dared to start the race on the wet track on slicks, and at first he lost heavily to the leaders on wet tires. But in the second phase of the race, he was able to win back the gap, pass all the rivals one by one and secure another victory. This time the podium was shared with him by Kirill Ladygin (LADA Vesta, LADA Sport Rosneft) and Rustam Fatkhutdinov (Audi RS3, Alga Motorsport). Yesterday's winners Alexander Smolyar and Pavel Kalmanovich finished 5th and 8th today.
В Sunday Race Super ProductionLADA Vesta crossed the finish line again, this time driven not by Leonid Panfilov, but by his partner in the AVTOVAZ factory team, Mikhail Mityaev. Yesterday's winner Roman Golikov (Honda Civic, Lubsar Delrus Neva Motorsport) contented himself with bronze, leaving behind Maxim Turiyev (LADA Vesta, Lecar). Nikolai Vikhansky, who took the silver medal yesterday, closed the top 5 today.
In CN Sport Prototype classthe fastest car — Mitjet 2L — was at the disposal of only Konstantin Sugrobov. In Saturday's race, his technique let him down, but on Sunday he bounced back — and was the first to cross the finish line. However, in the absence of direct competitors, he did not score points, and the main characters of both races were the pilots in Shortcut cars.
Alexander Dudarev was twice the best in this category, winning both in dry asphalt and in difficult rainy conditions. Kirill Kirakozov was twice on the podium: on Saturday in second place, on Sunday — in third. Alexey Khairov and Stepan Krumilov also became winners.
Recall that the results of athletes on domestic Shortcut sports cars also count towards the multi-stage competition G- Drive Cup, which is organized jointly with the general partner of the series, the high-tech fuel brand G-Drive of the Gazprom Neft filling station network. It is not difficult to guess that after the weekend on the Smolensk Ring, Alexander Dudarev became the leader. The Petersburger has 61 points, the nearest pursuers — Kirill Kirakozov and Stepan Krumilov — are 11 and 15 points behind, respectively. Cherevan — even though it started from the end of the back of the field! Together with him, Vyacheslav Donets (Moskvich-408) climbed the podium in the 2000 category — just like the day before, he won bronze. And Ivan Tarakanov got silver today — yesterday's winner Vladislav Shevel finished Sunday's race in a gravel trap.
In the Zhiguli1600 group, the podium also resembled yesterday's — except that Igor Shunailov (VAZ-2101) took not second, but first place, and this time Ivan Tarakanov won the silver. Artem Fridman (VAZ-2101) is third again — and yesterday's triumphant Andrei Kozlov did not finish his VAZ-2107.
All racing cars, regardless of class, are filled with high-tech G-Drive fuel from the Gazpromneft filling station network, which is used not only by ordinary motorists, but also by professional pilots. In order for gasoline to help racers improve performance, it is regularly tested under extreme conditions. G-Drive has already been tested by the Russian circuit racing series, the Silk Way Rally Raid, drifting and endurance racing.
At each stage, fuel quality control directly at the autodrome is ensured by a mobile laboratory that conducts regular checks at Gazprom Neft gas stations. With the help of such a mobile van with modern equipment inside, it is possible to analyze about 10 main parameters of gasoline and diesel in less than half an hour, which allows you to quickly monitor its quality.
The races were broadcast by Match TV, Match ! Country and Match! Arena.
Recordings of online broadcasts are available on the VK Video platform.
Official results and a photo gallery of the stage are available on the G-Drive SMP website RCRS Touring.
The next round of the championship and the Cup of Russia in automobile circuit racing will be held in Kazan on June 17-18.
And in a week, the pilots of the NSR of the Russian circuit racing series can be seen in a 4-hour endurance race: the country's most modern track, Igora Drive, hosts the NSR RCRS Endurance stage.
Details of the racing program and entertainment are on the website of the Festival of Speed.
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