World champions G-Drive Racing and SMP Racing will fight in 6- one-hour endurance race at Sochi Autodrom. For the first time in the history of the race track, the Olympic Park will host a 6-hour marathon of the SMP RSKG Endurance series – the Russian Endurance Cup. On November 4 at Sochi Autodrom, more than fifty pilots, who have won not only national but also world competitions, will take part in a grueling test.
The G-Drive Racing team, famous for its success in the most prestigious marathons in the world, will exhibit a sports prototype G-Drive G01. It will be piloted by Roman Rusinov, multiple winner and medalist of the FIA WEC World Endurance Championship, European Le Mans Series, and Asian Le Mans Series.
His partners will be the winners of the G-Drive Cup, a mono-cup held by the partner of the Russian Circuit Racing Series – the Gazprom Neft gas station chain. The Cup is played among pilots of the CN Sportprototype class, competing in domestic Shortcut racing cars – the most popular and competitive class of the Russian circuit.
B In 2022, the winner of the unique award was Kirill Kirakozov, in 2023 – Alexander Dudarev. Now pilots will have the opportunity to go to the start of a 6-hour marathon together with the legendary Roman Rusinov.
We want to give the most successful G-Drive Cup pilots the opportunity to try their hand at driving more powerful vehicles. I'm sure they will show themselves worthy. For my part, I will try to help them make progress. This will be a good example of how experience in the G-Drive Cup allows you to develop and move up to faster classes. Roman Rusinov racer and sports director of G-Drive Racing
In addition, pilots of the SMP Racing program, who have four domestic BR03 prototypes created by the Russian company BR Engineering, will fight for victory in the overall classification of the Russian Cup.
And this means that we will again We will see the struggle of the best Russian racers, in whose honor the anthem was played on the tracks of the FIA WEC World Championship!
I am very glad that the G-Drive Racing team and Roman Rusinov personally will take part in the final stage of the SMP RSKG Endurance Russian Cup. The performance of a team of this level raises the prestige of the competition and attracts the interest of participants and fans. We know each other well from our performances in world endurance races, including the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Then the pilots of the SMP Racing program, including Kirill Ladygin and Viktor Shaitar, fought side by side with the G-Drive Racing team, representing Russia in foreign competitions. Now they are performing on their native soil, and it will be all the more interesting to follow the struggle of famous pilots. Alexey Basov, head of the Russian motorsport development program SMP Racing
In addition, Formula 1 pilots Vitaly Petrov and Sergey Sirotkin, winner of the international Formula 3 race Alexander Smolyar and winner of the W-Series race Irina Sidorkova.
Racers in 600-horsepower Mercedes-AMG GT3 supercars are ready to compete with the pilots of SMP Racing and G-Drive Racing: winner of the international races of the Blancpain Sprint Series Rinat Salikhov, winner of the Formula Renault V8 Egor Orudzhev b>, two-time winner of the SMP Russian circuit racing series Denis Remenyako.
In total, over 20 cars of different classes are participating in the race, including about a dozen supercars of the international GT4 category. To ensure stable operation of the engines under extreme loads, all of them will be fueled with high-tech G-Drive fuel. Fans will be able to see the powerful machinery up close while walking along the starting grid.
You can follow the race from the heart of Sochi Autodrom: the broadcast will be on a huge screen, and the host will be accompanied on stage by the competition participants.
Premium ticket holders will be able to watch the fight in the most comfortable conditions. At their disposal is a cozy VIP box at Sochi Autodrom, a balcony overlooking the starting line, a buffet and excursions to the pits, where racing teams prepare pit stops for their pilots.
The 6-hour race of the Russian Cup SMP RSKG Endurance with the participation of world-famous stars will be the last competition at the formula configuration of Sochi Autodrom. According to informationof the official portal of the Federal Territory “Sirius”, from next season the length of the route will be reduced from the current 5.8 to 2 kilometers.
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