Ramzan Kadyrov and Boris Rotenberg were among three thousand spectators watching the four-hour race at the Fortress Grozny circuit. The pilots of the SMP Racing program Vitaly Petrov and Sergey Sirotkin covered more than 500 kilometers in 4 hours on the Russian sports prototype BR03 — and won the Russian SMP RSKG Endurance Cup. In total, 52 pilots in 23 crews competed for awards in the overall classification and individual classes.
The head of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov and founder of the Russian motorsport development program SMP Racing Boris Romanovich Rotenberg.
For the first time, four 420-horsepower BR03 sports prototypes, created in the Russian bureau BR Engineering, took part in the competition.
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During the race, two of them were knocked off the track by their rivals, but the crew of Formula 1 pilots was unstoppable — Vitaly Petrov and Sergei Sirotkin received several awards at once: for winning the 3rd stage of the Russian Cup and the Chechen Republic Cup. But the AKHMAT Cup made of precious metals and gems, which previously went to the winner of the Chechen race, this time will be awarded to the winner of the entire season in a month.
Second place in the overall standings was taken by the crew of Denis Remenyako and Konstantin Tereshchenko, who competed in a 600-horsepower Mercedes-AMG GT3 supercar. Bronze went to Ivan Chubarov and Alexander Bolduev, who competed in the BR03 prototype.
Cars of the class GT4< /b> slightly slower than the monsters of Group F – but in this competition the Russian Cup was also played in addition to the RAF (Russian Automobile Federation) Cup and the Chechen Republic Cup. The best in this category was the crew of Sergei Borisov and Sergei Titarenko, racing in a Toyota Supra.
In the Touring classcompeted for the same set of awards, the highest were won by Dmitry Bragin and Ibragim Akhmadov, who drove the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR.
In the Super Production class, the RAF Cup went to the crew of Valery Smirnov and Sergei Saghatelyan, and the Cup of the Chechen Republic — Alexander Garmash, Andrey Sevastyanov and Sergey Gorbatenko.
In S1600 Andrey Petukhov and Dzhabrail Akhmadov, who competed in a Volkswagen Polo, became the best.
The only crew on a Hyundai Solaris of the Touring Light class consisting of Anvar Tutaev, Ruslan Askarov and Maxim Nikolaev safely reached the finish line and received two Cups — the Russian Automobile Federation and the Chechen Republic.
Recording of the four-hour race, in which there were plenty of risky overtakings, dramatic accidents and dynamic pit stops, is available on the VK Video service.
Photo gallery and full race results are available on the website of the SMP RSKG Endurance series.
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