A year after year, it was on the banks of the Volga and Oka that the hottest racing weekend of the season takes place. We tell you what to wait, why look and for whom to root.
The next weekend, July 12 and 13, the best racer and racing teams of the country will converge in the struggle on the Nizhny Novgorod Ring highway. In the top class, “oil wars” go to a new round – the confrontation of teams that enjoy the support of well -known fuel brands. And in one of the elementary grades, a team named after … Kuzkina’s mother will fight for the victory with rivals!
Weekends G-Drive SMP RSKG, the Russian series of ring racing, is not only a noticeable sporting event, but also just a great opportunity to spend a non-casual summer weekend. After all, with observation of racing from the rostrum, everything is just beginning.
Spectators can also take a walk along the starting grille while preparing for the race, get with a tour of the boxes of several teams to look inside the racing machines and see how mechanics work with them; to rush along the highway passenger of a racing taxi (and it will be a supercar!); To feel like a racer, sitting behind the wheel of a racing simulator and try your hand at a digital copy of the Nizhny Novgorod Ring.
All the information from the raids scheduled to the list to the list of all audience activities is on a special page. We will study the main sports intrigues of the nearest weekend.
Gazprom in pursuit of Lukoil
The main attention of the fans is attracted by the top category of SMP TCR Russia, where the fastest racers and the most successful teams of the country compete. The Russian Championship is played in this category, and at the moment, the current champion Mikhail Simonov is leading in it. The 22-year-old athlete from the Samara region represents the Lukoil Racing team and drives the Leon Cupra VZ car-the most modern of those that start starting in class entries.
G-Drive SMP RSKG
However, at the previous, second stage of the championship (it was held in the vicinity of St. Petersburg), the bronze medalist of the last two seasons Alexander Smolyar received the same car. This racer is known to fans of motorsport primarily from performances in younger formulas – in particular, battles with Oscar Piaste (the current leader of the Formula 1 championship) in the European Cup of the Renault formula and victories in Formula 3 races.
This year, a 23-year-old Muscovite, playing for the G-Drive SMP Racing team, began the season at the wheel of a middle-aged Hyundai i30 N and at the first stage could not score many points. But the change of car allowed Alexander to clearly demonstrate his potential. In qualification, Smolya was ahead of the closest pursuer more than for a second (at the first stage, such a gap was four times less), and in one of the races after the start from 10th place he finished in 3rd position, for the first time rising to the podium during the season.
G-Drive SMP RSKG
But is the time not missed to get to the championship applicants? Now, in the overall standings of Smalya in 7th place and loses 33 points to the leading Simonov. On the one hand, the task mathematically standing before Alexander does not look unreal: in one racing weekend you can score as many as 67 points. On the other hand, the so -called system of weight handicaps (racers, which, according to the results of the stage became the most effective, are loaded with ballast at the next stage) does not allow us to count on long victorious series.
And in any case, Smolyar needs to play points in almost every race. Including on the “Nizhny Novgorod Ring”, where to do this is not always simple: a track that is considered the most winding and slippery in Russia gives relatively few opportunities for overtaking.
And of course, we must not forget about other fast racers. For example, about the second place of Muscovite Ivan Chubarov from the Lada factory team-the bright yellow Vesta sedans with 350-horsepower engines continue to fight CuPra, Hyundai and Audi on equal terms.
Why is the Kuzkina Mother racing team?
In any sport, people like to cheer for their own – and Nizhny Novgorod fans will support anyone. In particular, in all respects, a noticeable team performing in the Touring Light class (modified compact machines with motors with a capacity of about 200 hp). On the highway, these machines stand out in their saturated-lazored color. And in the lists of the participants they immediately pay attention to it, because its name is Kuzma’s Mother Racing Team. That is, the “racing team of Kuzkina Mother.”
This name has a double meaning. Firstly, it expresses a characteristic desire for any team to show everyone the same Kuzkin mother. And secondly, Kuzma for Nizhny Novgorod is a special name: after all, it was in this city that Kuzma Minin grew up, one of the famous characters in Russian history. And Minin would not have to blush for his fellow countrymen’s races: now Kuzma’s Mother RT takes the second place in the team standings, lagging behind the leader by only 10 points – and the best of her racers (chicken Nikolai Karamyshev) in the general standings are also on the second line.
Perhaps the most charismatic pilot of Russian racing-63-year-old Vladimir Cherevan from the eagle attracts special attention to the team. It is the legend of Russian motorsport not only because of age, although, undoubtedly, it deserves respect that Vladimir has become the champion of the country at 59 years old and continues to fight on equal terms with riders who are suitable for his grandchildren.
But no less than speed, Uncle Vova (as the athlete is called) in Paddok attracts attention to a living character. He always has a joke or joke in the language, it is he who gives the brightest interviews-plus Vladimir is known as a large connoisseur of non-standard hats and regularly appears on the catwalk in some special hat.
G-Drive SMP RSKG
You can learn more about the life of the Kuzkina Mother’s team with the help of fascinating videos, which the team regularly posts on social networks. Also, Kuzma’s Mother RT boxes often become one of the stops on the route of excursions along the boxes of racing teams. Which are held at each stage, and at the racing weekend in Nizhny will be held three times a day.
We remind you that all the information for those who want to visit races this weekend can be found on this page. /m
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