From May 16 to May 18, the next season of the Russian series of ring racing starts on the Moscow Region highway. G-Drive SMP RSKG is the largest and most prestigious racing tournament in the country, and more than 150 different cars are expected at the start of racing of the first stage. And it’s not only in quantity …
Russian races are much more than the view from the rostrum
At the stages of G-Drive, the NSR RSKG is always interesting, because observing the races is only a small part of the program. For example, here you can: – take a walk along the starting lattice while preparing for the race – get into the boxes of several teams – to look inside the racing cars and see how the mechanics work with them – to industry along the racing highway – a passenger of a racing taxi, in which supercars like Porsche or McLaren 720s act – feel yourself – to feel yourself – to feel yourself a racer, sitting behind the wheel of a racing simulator and try your hand at a digital copy of the Moscow Raceway
Dmitry Galchun/G-Drive SMP RSKG 
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG 
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG 
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG 
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG 
G-Drive SMP RSKG
All the details about the entertainment program can be found here, and we are the time to go to the sports component. Who will be the most interesting to follow the weekend?
His own among strangers: the champion went to the opponents
The top class of the Russian ring is SMP TCR Russia. It is the most successful Russian teams like the LADA factory team on predatory Vesta TCR sedans with a 350-horsepower engine. Racers are completely professionals (unlike other classes where the majority protrudes for their money). Cars are the same on which the World Tcr World Tour tournament is played with stages from South America to Australia.
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG
Last year in this class brought a sensation: 22-year-old Mikhail Simonov from the city of Syzran, Samara region, became the champion on the very first attempt. Having done this with the help of the most titled racer of the class-the 6-time champion of the country Dmitry Bragin (who has been the coach of Simonov for more than one year and was his partner last year). And at the cost of the scandal: in the decisive race, Bragin dropped the speed, waited for the main opponent of Simonov and tightly blocked him – as a result of which several other cars slipped past, and this maneuver provided Mikhail with the title.
G-Drive SMP RSKG
You can imagine what emotions at that moment were tested in the Lukoil Racing team, which was the rival of Simonov for. A few months later a new surprise awaited them-the current champion became the new pilot of the red-white team. And now the same engineers and mechanics who did everything a year ago in order to prevent Simonov from winning, now they must do everything to provide this rider to win.
G-Drive SMP RSKG
In the new team, Mikhail will no longer be able to enjoy the support of Bragin, who will now be an opponent of his former ward. Can the current champion quickly get comfortable and fight for victories from the first stage? Or will it give this transition to the forceders – to the same Bragin or riders of the LADA factory team? Perhaps this is the main intrigue of the new season.
Who will challenge the king of budget races?
Three million rubles for the roadway is a lot. Three million rubles for a racing car are not a penny, but extremely budget. And therefore, simple (spatial frame, Zhigulevsky motor, “search” box) SHOTRCUT 527 racing sports carriers are very popular among enthusiasts. To the start of one race can easily go under forty almost the same cars!
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG 
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG 
Grigory Golyshev/G-Drive SMP RSKG 
Grigory Golyshev/G-Drive SMP RSKG
It would seem that in this situation the struggle for the title should be very dense. In fact, last year in the Russian Cup (this is the status of competitions on Shotrcut 527), a real dominator was discovered. At the first stage, the young pilot due to banal breakdown (the gas cable broke) could not take part in the qualification and was forced to start both races from the 25th position. Andrei finished the first race in second place, and the second – and completely won. It is not surprising that at the end of the year Gromov became the best, not allowing anyone to impose a struggle.
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG
But the low cost of operation Shortcut 527 makes it possible to test a lot, and also contributes to the regular appearance of new athletes in the class. And it is very likely that in the new season, the pilot from the Leningrad region will have to give up the maximum to defend its title.
Only girls in Kokpit: women’s crew in long races
The competitions of the classes, which were discussed above, are part of the series of SMP RSKG Sprint, where at the weekend athletes they conduct a pair of short half -hour races. But within the framework of the Russian series of ring racing, the Marathon series of the SMP RSKG Endurans, consisting of racing with a length of 4 to 6 hours. And the first such race will be held on Sunday, May 18.
Grigory Golyshev/G-Drive SMP RSKG
The main stars of the marathon races in the last two years are crews on the BR03 prototypes developed and produced in Russia. These are relatively simple machines (spatial frame, external fiberglass panels, atmospheric motor) – but on the highway they confidently compete with higher -tech racing foreign cars of the GT3 category. In the past, and in the year before last, the Russian Cup in Endurance Racing was obtained by the crews who spoke at the wheel of the BR03.
The most attention to himself was attracted by the star crew of Vitaly Petrov and Sergey Sirotkin. Firstly, Russian pilots Formula 1-by default the most famous riders of the country. Secondly, it was Vitaly and Sergey who acted most successfully and won the races more often than their colleagues.
Marat Daminov/G-Drive SMP RSKG
But now the star crew has a serious competitor – two fragile girls, Ira Sidorkova from Petrozavodsk and Muscovite Victoria Blokhina, will replace each other at number 51. Both have been performing in races for several years and have long proved that they can go very quickly. But in order to fight for victories with crews on other BR03 and foreign supercars, it will be necessary to squeeze out the maximum cars. And there is a suspicion that in this struggle, the sympathy of the public will be on the side of Ira and Vicki.
Need details?
We remind you that the first racing weekend of the season will be held from May 16 to 18 in the suburbs, on the Moscow Raceway highway near Volokolamsk. All the information necessary for the fans-the weekend schedule, a list of activities for spectators, and so on-you can find here on this page. It is better to buy tickets in advance on the website of the RSKG.rf. /m
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