In anticipation of the starts at the Pilot sports complex, the track surface was updated, the start and staging area was expanded, which increased the acceleration speed before staging to 105-110 km/h. The drifters were assessed by style judge Arkady Tsaregradtsev, trajectory judge Stepan Zemtsev and corner judge Nikita Shikov, who distributed 100 maximum points as follows: 70 for trajectory, 20 for style, 10 for corner.
On Saturday, November 8, 66 qualifying participants took to the track, and the fog of Sunday morning was dispelled by the hot warm-ups of the participants in the TOP-32 pair races. In the passionate struggle between people and equipment, there were evacuations and emergency medical treatment.
Sudden problems with one of the most stylish Toyota Supra A90 cars of experienced Grigory Gusev (Nakhodka) did not allow the pilot to win in the fight for 3rd place. Despite unsolved technical issues in the car’s operation, the bronze medalist was the winner of the qualification, Artem Shabanov.
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In the final, the representative of the TsMRBank team Leonid Schneider (Krasnoyarsk) on a BMW E92, who lost the lead in qualifying to Artem Shabanov, and Vahe Akopyan (Krasnodar) who progressed from stage to stage on a BMW E46 coupe, met.
Diligent training at the “home” training center “Pilot” under the mentorship of Damir Idiyatulin allowed Vaga to climb to the second step of the podium. The champion of the 1st stage of the 7th season of the Systême Electric Drift Challenge was Leonid Schneider, who consistently showed great drives.
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The 1st stage of SDC brought together 9 teams, the leaders among which were: 1. ALL CASH (Schneider Leonid / Akhtyamov Maxim Gusev Grigory) 2. TsMRBank (Arefyev Ruslan / Shabanov Artyom / Vorobyov Danil / Ishchenko Yaroslav (15 years old) 3. SWS DRIFT TEAM (Golochalov Alexey / Litvin Ivan / Kudinov Dmitry / Khariton Alexander / Malashchitsky Alexander)
Another innovation was the nomination “Best Engineering Solution”, the first prize was taken by Sergey Yuferev (Kirov) and his newly built BMW M2 G87 S58 MALENA.
The next stage of the Systême Electric Drift Challenge will take place on November 15 and 16 at the Pilot sports complex in the city of Ust-Labinsk. Stages 3 and 4 are scheduled for March 2026.
