Season Russian Championship drag racing started! Drivers and fans wait for the grand celebration of power, speed, low and loud motors seconds! In Krasnoyarsk drag strip race track «Red Ring» left some of the best dregster country.
Weather favored participants of the championship: the bright sun, comfortable temperatures, the real summer! And in reply immediately fell hard times and personal bests. Especially since the first 200 meters track, like last year, it has been specially glued to improve the car hook. At the start of qualifying races on Saturday came twenty-four pilots in three classes FWD, RWD, AWD.
Planck's best times almost immediately began to sink lower and lower — class tried AWD. The first showed the best result of the day, Paul Khodykin for Nissan GT-R Thor DT THOR — 8,32 seconds when output speed of 274 km / h. Gradually it began to pick opponents: Alex Krivolapov (Nissan Skyline) — 8,71 seconds and 217 km / h, Stanislav Lunev (Nissan Skyline GT-R Kiwamaru) — 8,56 seconds at 270 km / h, Alexander Albin (Nissan Skyline GT-R) —-8,75 seconds and 255 km / h at the output.
But on the track I left Dmitry Kapustin in his first qualifying race time though playfully took 0.06 seconds! His Nissan Skyline GT-R was 8.50 seconds behind kvoter when output speed of 264 km / h. A short time later, Dmitry puts a new record of the day: 8.24 seconds!
Call Kapustin decides to Dmitry Matveev. They both come to the drag strip, and start... Dmitry Kapustin literally flies Quarter of 8.17 seconds! Absolutely the best time of the day that no one was able to block!
The second best time Saturday still showed Dmitry Matveev, though in a different race. Its result was 8.23 seconds and 282 km / h speed on finishing the alignment.
Double updated record of Russia and the CIS for cars Subaru Dmitry Mandrikov (Class AWD): first to 9.05 seconds, and at the end of the day and did 9 seconds flat.
One of the foreign participants of the Championship Gennady Pavlov from Alma-Ata also decided to «go all the money.» As a result — a record for cars Kazakhstan: Nissan Skyline was Gennady kvoter for 8.98 seconds.
On the road on Saturday came and the two pro-mod prepared Estonian team Team Outlaw. Already familiar to fans of the championship Dodge Viper DT and a completely new project GAZ 13 Chaika sports. Unique beauty tried sizing «Red Ring», a little pokapriznichat yet revealed its first results. Riivo Sinijärv on «The Seagull» drove kvoter of 8.79 seconds and a Dodge Viper DT Dmitry Samorukova overcome the same distance, having started even without warming up the tires, for 9.97 seconds.
On Sunday, the qualifying races will continue in the morning. At 14:00 local time (10:00 GMT) held the opening ceremony, and will start at 14:20 Finals stage of the Russian Championship drag racing in Krasnoyarsk.
