The season of the 2025 season of the Russian Drift Grand Prix ended

The anniversary, 100th stage of the country’s main championship summarized the 2025 season-“The Grand Prix Grand Prift of the Russian Drift of the series” on the Moscow Raceway highway determined the owners of titles in the personal and command offices, as well as the winner of the final tournament race.

The main intrigue of the weekend was the battle for the title of champion, in which five athletes participated before the start of the stage. The number of applicants for the title decreased already on Saturday, when Anton Kozlov, winner of the 2024 title, Artyom Shabanov (Timeup) and the four-time Russian drift series, were left from the champion race, and the four-fold champion of the Russian Drift of the series Georgy Chivchyan (Takayama Forward Forward Auto).

However, the repetition of 2023, when the fate of the championship decided in the very last race of the season, did not happen-it became clear at the Top-16 stage that the leader of Lecar Office Motorsport, Arkady Tsaregraders, is becoming an unattainable for the only rival, Damir Idamiyatulin (Fresh Racing). Having secured a place in the quarter-finals, the tsaregraders earned a guaranteed championship, and Idiyatulin at the TOP-16 stage lost to Artyom Shabanov.

Arkady Tsaregraders and Ilya Popov
RDS GP

For the second time, Arkady Tsaregrads became the owner of the title of the strongest pilot of the Grand Prix of the Russian drift of the series, having made the brightest Cambet according to the results of the season-at the start of the tournament at the Moscow Raceway, the athlete did not even go through the qualifications, but by the sixth stage he went to the leadership leaders and at a decisive moment was able to maintain an advantage and secure the title.

Nevertheless, I could not win at the seventh stage of the RDS GP RDS GP. In the semifinals, the leader of Lecar Office Motorsport first lost to his fellow team and student Ilya Popov, and in the battle for third place was defeated by Artyom Shabanov. As a result, the tsaregrad residents became the fourth on the Moscow Raceway.

Final Ilya Popov and Georgy Chivchyan
RDS GP

The winner of the seventh stage of the “final Grand Prix of the Russian Drift of the series” was another champion-George Chivchyan for the first time since 2023 won the pair races of the RDS GP. The victory at the Moscow Raceway was his 20th success in the main championship of the country in drift, as well as the first in the RDS GP, won behind the wheel of the Forward Racing 400z sports car, created by the Takayama Forward Auto team.

It is symbolic that the anniversary success of the most titled pilot of Russian drift came on the 100th weekend of the Russian drift of the series. Moreover, it was Gochi who was the victory of Takayama Forward Auto, which confidently won the RDS GP 2025 in the team standings.

The path to the victory for George Chivchyan was not easy-in the top 32, Artyom Lyatis from Carville Racing became rival, whom Gocha overcame without much effort, but he had to work further to win over Danila Vorobyov (Lukoil Racing Drift Team). The TOP-8 needed a re-triumph with Denis Migeli, which could not do without a contact struggle.

The semifinals with Artyom Shabanov was also tense for George, but he managed to win and get a ticket to the main battle of the weekend. In the final, the opponent of the most experienced Chivchyan was the young pilot Ilya Popov. The representative of Lecar Obsessed Motorsport, despite his young age, demonstrated incredibly mature driveways-dense, synchronous and very aggressive, but in the end he nevertheless stopped a step from the debut victory in RDS GP

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According to the results of the weekend, the three prize-winners of the entire season of 2025 was finally formed on the Moscove Raceway. The champion in the personal standings was Arkady Tsaregraders, vice-champion due to his victory-George Chivchyan, and Artyom Shabanov secured “bronze”. Damir Idiyatulin settled on the fourth line, and the leading Kozlov in the leading championship, as a result, closed the first five for most of the championship.

In the team standings, the battle was so dense that the position in the three winners could radically change according to the results of the stage on the Moscow Raceway. However, the first line managed to defend Takayama Forward Auto, which in a dense struggle was ahead of Timeup. Despite the inexpressive start of the season, Lecar Office Motorsport was eventually able to secure the third place.

The season of 2025 is completed in the Russian Grand Prix of the Russian drift, but the summer drift is not over. Already this weekend, on October 4–5, in Rostov-on-Don, at the Rostov Arena stadium, the Russian Superfinals Cup will be held, which will collect the strongest RDS GP pilots and representatives of the RDS Open Open Championship-they will compete for the main trophy of this season.