On July 27-28, the main automotive event of the season – GARAGE FEST Igora Drive 2024 – took place at the Igora Drive circuit. This year, the sports and entertainment program for spectators has become even more diverse: the 4-hour REC endurance race, the RDS Europe drift competition, circuit races on historic classic touring cars, the Formula Student engineering competition, the Autoculture exhibition of rare collector cars, as well as concerts by Diana Arbenina and the Night Snipers group, accompanied by an orchestra, the ZOLOTO group. and the pop-rap duo HammAli & Navai.
GARAGE FEST Igora Drive 2024 is the tension of a top-level sports competition and the unique energy of a large open-air concert. This year, there were even more races, competitions and emotions.
On Saturday, the 3rd stage of the Russian endurance racing series Russian Endurance Challenge (REC) took place at the Autodrom ring, during which two historic events took place: the debut of the Russian supercar Rossa LM GT, which took part in demonstration races, as well as a record number of participants: 37 crews took part.
For the first time, within the framework of the GARAGE FEST, Igora Drive races of the Classic Touring series took place, whose participants took to the ring on Sunday. 73 drivers took part in the 4th stage, including newcomers of the season.
In parallel with the two-day GARAGE FEST Igora Drive 2024 festival, the fifth stage of RDS EUROPE 2024 took place, which turned out to be unusually intense due to the complex configuration of the track, surrounded on all sides by walls.
In the engineering competition “Formula Student”, not only Russians, but also representatives of China, India, Kazakhstan and Turkey competed for victory – a total of 16 teams.
More than 170 classic and rare cars made up the exhibition of the Autoculture project this year. One of the star guests of the site was the famous blogger Stas Asafiev, who gave an open-air lecture for everyone. Nearby were the most powerful racing cars in Russia – the team’s powerful dragsters and promods, which also made several demonstrations.
Each of the two days of the festival ended with a large-scale concert. On Saturday, July 27, the musical program was opened by the ZOLOTO group and its leader Vladimir Zolotukhin. Then the legendary Diana Arbenina took to the stage at GARAGE FEST with the group “Night Snipers” accompanied by an orchestra. The festival ended on July 28 with the pop-rap duo HammAli & Navai.
“We can confidently say that today GARAGE FEST is the main event of the summer, which has turned into a real movement that unites people of all ages. The popularity of the Igora Drive circuit is growing every year, and for 5 years we have been gradually developing it not only from the sports point of view, but also from the event and infrastructure point of view. We organize many interesting events and, of course, GARAGE FEST is the main one. These are two days of a rich sports and entertainment program, where you can watch spectacular races, have a good time and enjoy the atmosphere of music, speed and driving,” said Alexey Titov, General Director of the Igora Drive autodrome.
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