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On the ice track AvtoVAZ in Sosnovka, no racing regalia has absolute power. Even if you are a local champion, this does not guarantee you anything in the next Christmas race. Although there is one exception, whose name is Kirill Ladygin – last weekend he won his ninth title in this competition. But the positions of many other star pilots in the final table became a surprise. So, last year’s winner Vladimir Sheshenin did not leave group selections to the finals, which also won here Dmitry Bragin this time drove past the catwalk, and Vitaliy Petrov became a real “Anderdog”.

The Champions race is called so because it collects the best representatives of various disciplines of motorsport on one highway. It is not shameful not to show in this competition even for titled riders, especially if they come here for the first time or a maximum of the second or third time. Because the parallel ice track and front-wheel drives on 4.5 mm slap are a very specific combination.

Driving in such unique conditions and on this specific technique does not look different. Therefore, in Sosnovka, only the experience of speaking in this race decides. Nothing can fully replace it, but among other skills the most important thing is the ability of the rider to quickly adapt to the new and unusual.

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In addition to skills in motorsport, there is always another important factor – the great “random”. Or, in other words, good luck in receiving the best conditions from the category of those that he cannot influence. This year, Pirelli tires became such a factor. It seems to be everything as usual: the tread is generously strewn with “nails”, which stick out from it by 4.5 mm, and this gives an almost asphalt “hold” in corners. But during the races, the pilots realized that wear and decrease in the characteristics of these Pirelli occurs faster than in similar tires of the same brand used in previous years. And the stronger the wheels of a particular machine in previous attempts were loaded, the slower it rode in the subsequent ones.

Sustainable skills in motorsport can not only not help in pine, but also harm. Because the behavior of the machine here is radically different from that in most racing disciplines. The car slows down very well in lateral sliding and greatly rides behind the wheel on clean ice instead of gliding. The main control principle is the steering wheel inside and at the same time gas to the floor, even when you instinctively want to make the opposite
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Because of this, the results of the pilots were partially determined by the rotation of the Vest race in a closed park-with which “holder” the car will fall, with this you will work on the highway. And the opponent can just get caught “faster”. The principle is almost the same as in competitions in a rolling picture, where each pilot seeks to catch a “rocket” and not to sit on “firewood”. But there are no managers in the champions race, and the car for a specific arrival gets in random order. Therefore, someone was very unlucky, and someone, on the contrary, easily slipped all the selection.

If the speed in Sosnovka was not equal to Kirill Ladygin, then the Drift of Arkady Tsaregraders, who appeared on the race in the new sponsor of his team, “Obsessed Motorsport” – Lecar company, was the absolute champion in popularity.
Lecar At any event, in which the “king” participates, a line of dozens of fans for autographs and joint photos is built to it, so taking this short interview from him was not easy
Lecar By means of a wave of a wave in the form of a race in full -size, Arkady presented a new livery of his car – Nissan 370z with the Toyota JZ motor. The racer has long wanted to radically change the image of the machine, and the partnership with the Lecar brand was a great reason to finally realize this
Lecar Arkady said that the new sponsor is close to him ideologically, since he sees one of his missions to advance love for cars, for their proper maintenance and repair, while Lecar offers products and services in this area
Lecar In the race, Arkady entered the ten strongest in qualifications and even defeated the leader of his group-Eduard Nikolaev in the qualifying stage of the leader, but did not go into the playoffs. Tsaregraders said that despite the fact that he was in Sosnovka for the third time, last year he miss. This strongly influenced the Vatk – I had to not remember, but practically learn an unusual aerobatics from scratch
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It was quite natural to get out of the qualifying groups to the prefinal for all beginners, except for the head of the Kamaz-Master racing team and the multiple winner of Dakar Eduard Nikolaev. For the first time in Sosnovka, the young vice-champion from the Lada Sport Rosneft Picture Team Yaroslav Shevrtalov, ex-pilot formula 1 Nikita Mazepin, winners of different RSKLIV classes Vasily Kablev and Andrei Maslennikov, as well as the freshly made Russian RALILA Klim Klim Gavrilov, were also in Sosnovka. But Sosnovka owes nothing to anyone, and the champions lost not to anyone, but to other champions.

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The playoffs also turned out to be completely non-simple surnames: Nikolaev lost in the quarter-finals Ladygin, Alexander Smolyar (participates a second time)-Dmitry Bragin, representative of Lada Mikhail Mityaev lost to the “house” to a rather young, but experienced in a variety of racing affairs, Yegor Sanin.

And the main sensation was a breakthrough into the final of Vitaly Petrov (does not need an idea), who in one fourth coped with the ward of Bragin Mikhail Simonov (despite the fact that the champion of the RSKG Touring class competes in the ice races), and knocked out and in the semifinals and knocked out and in the semi -finals Dmitry Bragin himself.

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Vitaly turned out to be a very long -playing and multifaceted pilot. Despite the fact that the label “First Russian Formula 1 pilot” was firmly attached to him, his career does not even think to end even more than 10 years after the last performance in the F-1. This year, Petrov became the General Director of the G-Drive SMP Racing program and at the same time goes to starts of a very different level-from the Russian and international “endurans” while the GT3 technique to Fijital-goner and picture competitions on ice.

The champions race entering the final is a very high achievement, no matter what all other merits of a particular pilot are. The meeting in the final with Kirill Ladygin, who already had 8 titles and for many years of participation, left Petrov only a small chance of victory. And “Kesha”, as the fans are affectionately called Ladygin, did not miss his own. Ladygin First, Petrov Second
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The arrival for the title of the winner took place on a special technique – the applicants rolled out two completely new racing Lada ISKRA. They differ from the West, on which all other races passed, about everyone: chassis, engine, gearbox, electronics. More light (100 kg) and powerful ISKRA, and even on completely virgin tires promised a substantial increase in speed in a circle. The applicants were given only one test race so that they could estimate the high -speed potential of new equipment and try to realize it in the final duels.

The racing engineer of the Lada Sport Rosneft team Konstantin Gystarov spoke about the differences in the ice track from a similar racing racing Vesta. According to him, the pilots have long been asked about just such an upgrade of units for “Christmas” cars, and the new ISKRA model was a good reason to do this
Lada The main thing is increased from 1.6 to 1.8 liters of volume. This is done using another crankshaft, pistons and connecting rods. That is, this is not a new 1.8 EVO engine from Vesta, but the good old “six” with string-kit. Due to the larger volume, the designers managed not only to get an increase in power to 173 forces, but also to expand the main operating range to 2.5–6 thousand revolutions, significantly improved the craving on the bottoms and in the middle
Lada I remember how, while participating in the journalists Cup on Vesta with 1.6 engines (the main part of the last 27 champions race passed), with errors in the slow places of the highway, I had to make the clutch massage engine to return the momentum to the zone of confident traction. I can’t wait to try out the sparking motor, which should forgive such errors and save the clutch from violence by pilots
Lada The transmission is sectral, unlike search on West. The gearbox with index 2180 is taken as a basis, in which differential, drives, gear ratio and switching mechanism are different in the racing version
Lada The suspension was finalized according to the canons of the chassis of the racing Vesta. Brakes in front are standard, and discs are installed from Vesta
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It is not surprising that Ladygin found a common language with a machine and track with a VAZ race technique at this highway and at the same time experience with VAZ racing equipment. He managed to bang his attempt (a duel is held for the first place up to two victories) with a difference of about 4 seconds against his own result on West, while Vitaly in an attempt to find new speeds and the hook improved no more than a second. And so the ninth title Ladygin happened, which strengthened his status of the king of the Champions race – two convincing victories over Petrov in a row.

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But nine -time is not the only new status of Kirill Sergeyevich. After the finish line, the Lada Sport Rosneft team announced the transfer of Ladygin from pilots to managers – in the coming season of the RCP RSKG championship, he will leave the hotel of the tourist West Tuner and will become the head of the team in the super production class. But the names of the pilots who will take places behind the wheel in Lada Categories Super Products and TCR Russia are still not named.

Many viewers and participants themselves called the 27th champions race the most exciting and spectacular in recent years. And let the factor of luck were great, it is not for nothing that Fortune chooses the strongest – the triumph of Ladygin for this is confirmed. Next year there will be a new race, new newcomers, new intrigue. And most importantly – the speeds in the pine trees will increase to unprecedented, thanks to the transition to the compact and powerful Lada ISKRA. Let’s see which of the champions will better roll out new equipment in 2026! /m

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