It is expected that the season of the Russian Drift Grand Prix 2025 will become one of the most interesting. According to updated rules, each team can declare at the stage of four pilots at once instead of three last year, plus athletes can now participate in the championship who confirmed their skills in other international competitions.
Svetlana Parfenova New rules are the new composition of the participants. Pyotr Borodin, a master of sports of international class of the Republic of Kazakhstan, joined the pilots of the Takayama Forward Auto team George Chivchyan, Roman Tivodar and Timofei Dobrovolsky.
Svetlana Parfenova Pyotr, Roman and Timothy appear at the Nissan Silvia S15, and George “Gocha” Chivchyan, as last year, on Nissan 400z.
Svetlana Parfenova The car of Peter Borodin is Silvia, on which Georgy Chivchyan became the winner of the RDS GP in 2023. The car passed a large -scale then, the steering wheel for the new pilot was transferred from the right side to the left, and an experimental multi -leash suspension was installed on the front axis.
Svetlana Parfenova The Lecar team obsessed with Motorsport this season is Arkady Tsaregraders, Ilya and Vladislav Popov, as well as Vladislav Erofeev.
Svetlana Parfenova Interestingly, Lecar pilots obsessed with motorports go to four absolutely unified Nissan 370z. They differ only in the colors of the livery. All cars under the hood of 2JZ-GTE engine.
Svetlana Parfenova Other teams expanded their composition. So, Lukoil Racing Drift Team included Grigory Gusev on the freshly built Toyota Supra A90, Andrei Astapov, Danila Vorobyov and Danila Skorobogatov.
Svetlana Parfenova From interesting news, we also note that now the Predator Drift Team team plays in the RDS GP, the founder of which Alexander Abramov travels to the Dodge Viper SRT with an 8.4-liter V10 engine equipped with two turbines.
Svetlana Parfenova More than 40 pilots appeared at the first stage, and the struggle for entering the top 32 was very dense. The winner of the qualification was Damir Idiyatulin. The judges rated his travel at 99.5 points.
Svetlana Parfenova And several top pilots did not go to the TOP-32 stage. The first attempt by Lecar leader, obsessed with Motorsport, Arkady Tsaregradtsev, spoiled the snow (yes, the weather in the stage of the stage was near-Stoleva, and the snow was periodically in). In the second attempt, Arkady slipped on the marking of the highway.
Svetlana Parfenova Alexey Vakhtin, Alexei Kozlov, Ilya Fedorov, Anton Dmitrienko, Peter Borodin, Dmitry Shcherbina and Ruslan Arefiev also dropped out of the struggle.
Svetlana Parfenova The top 32 was not without contacts and turns. Anatoly Kizin went to the ram of the car of Roman Tivodar. Vladislav Popov crashed into Danila Vorobyov. Nikita Shikov made contact with Sylvia Timofei Dobrovolsky.
Svetlana Parfenova In the races of George Chivchyan and Ilya Polishchuk, the judges could not identify the best on the first time and appointed One More Time. Gocha went forward.
Svetlana Parfenova Evgeny Racing (Fresh Racing) and Vladislav Erofeev (Lecar Obsessed Motorsport) also appointed OMT. Victory went to Losev.
Svetlana Parfenova The races of the TOP-16, held on Sunday, also passed in cold weather and ice wind. But this only added passions on the highway.
Svetlana Parfenova The winner of the stage was Artyom Shabanov, the current champion RDS GP. First, he went around the team of Leonid Schneider, then he prevailed over Sergey Sak. In the semifinals, I met with Evgeny Losev and, after One More Time, ended up in the final with Anton Kozlov.
Svetlana Parfenova Anton Kozlov in the top 16 went around Artyom Leitis. He won the top 8 paired with Timofei Dobrovolsky, and in the semifinals met with Roman Tivodar. As a result, Anton rose to the second step of the pedestal.
Svetlana Parfenova The third place in the personal standings was taken by Evgeny Losev.
Svetlana Parfenova The three prize -winners of the command test included TimeUp, Carville Racing and Takayama Forward Auto.
Svetlana Parfenova The second stage of the Gran under the Russian drift of the 2025 series will be held on May 24-25 in St. Petersburg at the Igor Drev Avtodrome.
Svetlana Parfenova Even a piercing cold did not interfere with the joy of athletes on the catwalk.
Svetlana Parfenova The bonus for this report is several atmospheric photos of the races, which Pavel Tkachuk made a master of motorsport photography especially for the motor. Listen the gallery!
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In the Moscow Region at the Moscow Raceway Autodrom, the first round of the Russian Drift Grand Prix 2025 was held. This year, the championship has new rules and new participants, and the stages will be held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Krasnoyarsk. The start of the season collected more than 40 pilots – there was no such figure for a long time. The winner was the current RDS GP champion Artyom Shabanov, and the competition on the track was incredibly high. We talk about the most striking moments in the smoky photo report by Svetlana Parfenova and Pavel Tkachuk.