Russian Touring Car Championship held six rounds. The most powerful Touring championship, this time not only started eight modern 330-strong SEAT Leon III of, and SEAT Leon of the previous generation, and the spectacular Renault Megane RS. Members of the company's most powerful set-off pilots have traditionally accounted class super-production, acting on LADA Granta, Subaru BRZ, Honda Civic and BMW 320i. And if in Saturday's race «United 2000» Check the struggle took place in the framework of correct, then on Sunday the beyond the desire to win has led some drivers to allow a number of fatal errors: of the 22 starters made it to the finish line is not the four and three not overcome the full race distance. On this day Alexey Dudukalo was finally able to defeat the leader of the «Turing» Dmitry Bragin, chalked up a third win of the season.
No less class «Turing-Light» became exciting race, where compete compact hatchbacks to 200 hp The most striking episode of the first arrival — a clash teammates «Moscow Motorsport» Vladimir Cherevan and Andrei Maslennikov. A Sunday 60-kilometer race winner of the silver award Denis Bulatov overvoltage and thermal shock could not even get on the podium!
In the «National» championship race Saturday remembered the bitter struggle Vladimir Sheshenin 150-strong hatchback LADA Kalina and Gleb Kuznetsov sedan Volkswagen Polo, which, this time, after a series of mutual overtaking ended with a victory of domestic brands.
On Sunday, foreign cars took revenge: the first two places were won by pilots on the Kia Rio Agoshkov Roman and Ruslan nafik, third and fourth — Vitaly Dudin and Ivan Kostyuk at the Volkswagen Polo Sedan. Fifth finished correspondent of the newspaper «Auto Review» Vladimir Melnikov, who spoke on the LADA Kalina NFR R1, but for numerous trips over the track judge moved it to 9th place — and the best «kalinovodom» was Alexander GOLOVANOV.
Pilots SMP Formula 4 Championship, where are the young athletes from different countries, and this weekend was not easy. The most productive proved to be the Dutchman Richard Vershor, who won all three races, but our compatriot also found a place on the podium: Nikita Sitnikov was twice second and once third.
In MitJet Cup party kicked off SMP RSKG Vladimir Strelchenko, but the prizes played regular participants of the championship. On Saturday, the winner in the class sport prototypes was Mikhail Makarovsky on Sunday — the ex-champion Boris SMP RSKG Shulmeystera.
Overall, the Moscow Raceway this weekend were 87 pilots. Next, a series of Stage 6 of the Russian ring races held at the circuit of Smolensk ring 27 and 28 August. There are classes for pilots «Touring», «super-production», «Turing-Light» and «National» after the summer holidays to join the young participants of the championship «National Junior». Entrance for all viewers traditionally free; as at the last stage of the competition will be waiting for guests autograph sessions and computer simulations RaceRoom races.
