Stage 5 of the G-DRIVE SMP RSKG Touring took place at the Moscow Autodrom

On July 20-21, the ADM Raceway near Moscow hosted the next round of the Russian Championship and Cup, united in the G-Drive SMP RSKG Touring series. 72 participants took to the stage eight times.

TOURING-LITE

The most successful driver of the stage was Andrey Maslennikov (Audi A1, LUKOIL Racing Team). He has a victory in qualifying and a lead in Saturday’s race. On Sunday, Roman Shcherbakov (Kia Rio X, RUMOS Racing) won for the first time, which helped him to third in the scorers’ standings. That’s right, tied with Mikhail Simonov (Skoda Fabia, Bragin Racing Team), who scored the same number of points: the SMP TCR Russia top driver took advantage of the respite at this stage and returned to Touring Light, taking silver in one of the races. Nikolay Karamyshev (Audi A1, Rally Academy) finished second in the round thanks to his stability. Stas Novikov (Kia Rio X, Innostage – AG Team) also made his mark on the podium – third place went to him after Daniil Kharashun (Kia Rio X, RUMOS Racing) was punished for track trespassing during Sunday’s race.

S1600

Vasily Korablev (Kia Rio X, personal competition) strengthens his leadership in the Russian Cup! Third place in Saturday’s race and second place in Sunday’s race allowed him to score points. His closest rivals were plagued by setbacks – in particular, Nikolay Kalinin (LADA Granta, Bragin Racing Team) finished second from last at the end of the stage, and Vladimir Lobachev (Hyundai Solaris, ALGA Motorsport), despite Saturday’s triumph, retired the next day. an accident. Kai Shik Lobachev (Hyundai Solaris, ALGA Motorsport) could have been among the favourites, as he had won silver in the first race – but on Sunday, for overtaking in the yellow flag zone, he lost points for third place and gave them to Mikhail Pochenkov. (Kia Rio, personal competition), although he remained third in total points for the entire stage. The second most successful is his brother Alexander Pochenkov (Kia Rio, personal competition), who won the last race of the weekend.

CN SPORT PROTOTYPE

As usual, the races of more than two dozen Shortcut sports prototypes could not do without surprises. The main hero of the stage can be considered Alexey Khairov from AIMOL Racing CSKA – he won for the first time this season. However, according to the results of the stage, he is still second: after all, Alexander Dudarev from the DUDAREV Motorsport team on Sunday added gold to the bronze in Saturday’s race. It is worth noting that Alexander Shutemov, Sergey Ievlev and Kirill Kirakozov (BALCHUG Racing) also became winners of the race – however, it is not they, but the leader of the championship Andrey Gromov who can boast of the third result in terms of total points for the stage.

In the Midget drivers, both races were won by the winner of the SMP Racing/Gazprom for Children karting tournament, Konstantin Sugrobov. Ilya Sidelnikov and Maria Tyrina each won silver and bronze.

In the Legends 600 class, the situation is similar. There is only one winner in both races: Sergei Lapitsky. Yuri Ryazantsev and Matveya Smirnov climbed to the podium twice, but on Saturday and Sunday at different levels.

SMP HISTORIC CUP

“Zhiguli” and “Muscovites” of the HC2000 class traditionally started with Togliatti models of the HC1600 level – but, despite the single peloton, the drivers each scored points in their own ranking. Vladimir Cherevan (VAZ-21013) became the best in the senior class each time, Vladislav Donets (Moskvich-408IE), Gleb Semenov (VAZ-2101) and Sergey Pavlyuk (IZH-412) became the winners.

Andrey Kozlov (VAZ-2107) dominated in HC1600, Ivan Tarakanov (VAZ-2105) and Kirill Bulatov (VAZ-2102) received bronze and silver medals.

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