Circuit racing- the general name for several types of car races, held on special tracks with a hard surface. The main feature of such competitions is that the track has a closed view (ring).
Ring racing is very popular and spectacular. Probably, each of us watched Nascar or Formula 1 races on TV at least once and sincerely rooted for one of the participants. Unfortunately, not everyone can engage in motorsport - you need to be a professional driver and at the same time be aware that auto racing is one of the most dangerous species sports that took the life of more than one star.
Even our distant ancestors loved fast driving. Perhaps the prototype of auto racing was chariot racing in Ancient Rome. Since then, the sport has been constantly improved as technology progresses. Racers moved from chariots to bicycles, later to motorcycles, cars / trucks and fireballs (cars of a special design that develop tremendous speed). Almost every year, car designers improve their offspring, improving streamlining and increasing the possible speed.
Conventionally, circuit racing can be divided into open-wheel car competitions and touring championships.
Open wheel car racing- racing on special cars with wheels taken out of the body, the so-called fireballs. The main competitions of this type are as follows:
Formula 1- the most popular type of auto racing, a competition of cars with an engine power of up to 600 hp, which accelerates to 360 km / h. racing cars firms participating in the racing process differ from each other in various improvements, mainly in the field of aerodynamics. This is the fastest, most expensive and, unfortunately, the most life-threatening form of auto racing;
Indy Racing League- a popular type of competition from the USA, which take place, as a rule, on oval tracks. Unlike the Formula, only one or two firms create race cars, only individual improvements are allowed;
A1 Grand Prix- the type of competition created by the Arab sheikh, the "battle of the peoples" - as in it the main battle is between teams of riders from different countries. It is a monoclass - all participants' cars are exactly the same;
Formula Rus is the Russian answer to Formula 1. Races are held on special race cars of the same name as the races, all settings are the same for different cars.
touring car- competitions on cars with appearance serial. It is allowed to modify cars in the field of suspension, wheels, motor, brakes, aerodynamics, within the framework of the regulations. Main competitions:
RTCC- the Cup of Russia in touring car racing, which has existed since 1955, is the most popular racing championship in the CIS. The number of participants reaches 80 people in four categories of cars;
NASCAR- the most popular racing series in America. The championship includes 36 tracks in North America;
DTM- German racing series. Includes many tracks in Europe. There are many stars of other racing series among the participants.
The goal of the contestant is simple - to arrive first. Usually before the main races there is a qualification to determine the place of each car at the start. The higher the place in the starting grid, the earlier the racer will start his way for victory. Check-in takes place on a high-speed track with many turns and other surprises. Usually the race lasts 2-3 hours (Formula 1), but can stretch for a whole day (“24 hours of the Nürburgring”). Pit stops must also be made on the track in order to refuel and change tires.
Often the race is stopped due to an accident on the track. This, unfortunately, is all too common in motor racing, and therefore is their main disadvantage. If you have reached, you can rejoice that you have returned safe and sound. In addition, there is a battle between the riders for credit points based on the results of the race.
Do not think that racing is for professionals, there are championships for motorists.
For example, synchronized ring races among amateurs are regularly held at the Autodrom of the Exhibition and Convention Center in the city of Tolyatti, Samara Region. By paying a participation fee, each car owner can take part in the competition.
The main Russian circuit championship, SMP RSKG, finished in the capital of Tatarstan. Events on the Kazan Ring track made the fans gasp more than once and adequately completed, perhaps, the most interesting season in recent years. By the final stage in all classes it was, and the names of the owners of gold medals became known only in the last Sunday races!
The calmest fight was in the Touring class, where pilots competed in cars with two-liter turbo engines. However, it would be strange if the participants of the fastest class of the Russian ring would arrange a teenage crush. Dmitry Bragin from Togliatti confidently won the Sunday race and became a two-time Touring champion. On Saturday, the pilot of the branded team Lada Sport Rosneft Kirill Ladygin on Vesta, who no longer counted on gold at the end of the year, became the first. As for the other contenders for the title, neither Vladimir Sheshenin nor Alexei Dudukalo could give a fight to Bragin. Lada Vesta Sheshenina was not too fast because of the weight handicap received by the Urals for success in the previous stage. Well, the leader of the Lukoil Racing Dudukalo team lost points due to a departure from the track in the first race. As a result, the top three pilots in the individual standings retained their positions in Kazan, and the team title went to the pilots of Lada.
Dmitry Bragin from Togliatti (No. 1) put a golden point in the fastest class with a victory in the second race
In the RSKG Trophy standings, which is played in the Touring class among non-professional pilots, both times Irek Minnakhmetov excelled in the Audi RS3. The rider from Kazan had a strong season, winning several podiums in the overall standings, so his victory became natural. The second and third places according to the results of the RSKG Trophy were taken by St. Petersburg resident Klim Gavrilov and Muscovite Pavel Yashin in Seats.
In other classes, events developed with a great degree of intrigue. In Super Production, after the first race, Maxim Chernev came close to regaining the Russian Cup title: on Saturday, his main rival, Mikhail Mityaev from Togliatti, was out of action after a collision at the start. As a result, before the last race of the season, the contenders for the title were separated by only one point! Alas, on Sunday Chernev could not avoid contact with his teammate Efim Gantmakher - in the second turn, Vladislav Nezvankin from VAZ turned Nikolai Vikhansky's Honda around and Maxim broke the suspension on his Subaru in the resulting crowd. Thus, Mityaev won the first Russian Cup in his career, Chernev finished the season second, and Gantmakher not only took bronze in the individual competition, but also helped the Otkritie team win the team championship.
Suspension failure on Maxim Chernev's Subaru BRZ coupe prevented the Uralian from retaining the title of the strongest in the Super-production class
After Saturday's race in the 1600 cc Touring Light class, only four riders remained in pursuit of the title, and Timur Boguslavsky became the main loser. The young Kazan resident was confidently leading when the input shaft in the gearbox broke on his Peugeot 208! The first race was won by Denis Bulatov from the SMP Racing team, which strengthened the leading position of the Muscovite. However, on Sunday, the Volkswagen pilot was expected to start from eighth place - while his main rivals, Ildar Rakhmatullin and Andrey Maslennikov, occupied more advantageous places on the starting grid. Maslennikov's positions were especially strong: after an unsuccessful first run, the native of Kostroma set weight handicaps to zero and could compete for high positions. But on Sunday, the Saturday scenario almost repeated itself: Andrey was confidently leading in the race, when the engine suddenly stopped at his Fiesta!
The head of the Russian drift series RDS Dmitry Dobrovolsky finished the season with a victory in Kazan. However, due to missing two races, the Muscovite was unable to intervene in the dispute for the title in Super Production
After some time, Maslennikov was still able to revive the engine and even broke through from last to second place. Alas, this was still not enough to solve the maximum problem: Bulatov won the title. Maslennikov, together with Oryol veteran Vladimir Cherevan, was content with gold in the team event, where their team Motorsport Podmoskovye excelled. In general, the season in the Touring Light became one of the brightest events of the SMP RSKG: seven different pilots won in 14 races of this class!
Andrey Maslennikov (No. 43) was very close to his first champion title, but at the last moment the gold went to Denis Bulatov (No. 22)
In the "junior" 1600 cc standings, the National Final Weekend of the season also turned into an emotional American race, and two blockages decided the fate of the title. As expected, the lower weight handicap gave the season leader Aidar Nureyev an advantage in qualifying: the driver from Kazan took pole while his main rival, Muscovite Gleb Kuznetsov, was only twelfth! At the start of the first race, the capital's pilot was even more unlucky: he got into a blockage, "organized" by Yulia Strukova. Returning to the race one of the last, Kuznetsov could only finish eighth, while Nureyev came to the podium behind Roman Agoshkov from Togliatti.
The first race in the National class started with a blockage at the start
But on Sunday, the contenders for the title switched roles: Gleb started from the reverse pole, and Aidar got into the blockage! On the first lap on Andrey Petukhov's Kalina, the engine exploded (this episode is in the title picture) and, having slipped on oil, several participants dropped out of the race at once. Nureyev was still able to continue the race, but his Kia Rio was driving more and more slowly due to the damage he received. It seemed that the fate of the title was decided in favor of the leading Kuznetsov. However, a few laps before the finish line, a safety car appeared on the track, and after the restart, Yegor Sanin broke into first place. Thus, the Ulyanovsk junior deprived Gleb Kuznetsov of the title: Aidar Nuriyev became the owner of the Russian Cup with a difference of only one point! At the same time, the victory in the Sunday race made Sanin third at the end of the season, while team cup went to the metropolitan Rally Academy.
Among the youth in the National Junior class, the struggle for the title was reduced to a dispute between Maxim Kornilkov and Irina Sidorkova. The remaining contenders, Vladislav Seredenko and Rustam Fatkhutdinov, dropped out of the fight on Saturday after a mass accident initiated by Kornilkov. And although the rider from Perm won the first race, a 30-second penalty issued to Maxim by the judges allowed Irina Sidorkova to take the lead. However, the racer from Karelia could not take advantage of this advantage: at the start of the Sunday race, the Petrozavodsk resident fell under the hot hand of her rivals, and bent suspension arms did not allow her to finish higher than tenth place. Kornilkov, on the other hand, confidently won the decisive race, having issued a victory in the junior class. Sidorkova earned silver, and the third place in the series went to Ukrainian Vladislav Seredenko, who plays for the Chechen team Akhmat Racing Team.
Two leaders of the junior class - Maxim Kornilkov and Irina Sidorkova
By the way, the season for many heroes of the SMP RSKG is not over yet - next Saturday, October 7, they will meet again at the Ahmat Race marathon race in Grozny.
Russian circuit racing series
Final results
Touring class (Russian championship)
Super-production class (Russian Cup)
Touring Light class (Russian championship)
Class National (Cup of Russia)
Class National Junior (RSKG championship)
Ring racing games - we drive in a circle
Circuit racing was among the first computer games. They continue to develop even now, becoming more and more diverse in terms of plot content and possibilities. The same type of cars, differing only in color, are now gaining individuality. Previously, you can tune a car or motorcycle, making it original. Now bring it to the track and wait for the signal to start. In the future, it all depends on the dexterity of your manipulations.
Opponents try to get around you, cut you off and even push you off the track. Do not try to repeat their rudeness, so as not to run into a fine. If you are in a simulator, online circuit racing games open additional features- stop for quick repairs and refueling, switching views from a general plan to a first-person view. Some flash toys use similar tasks, offering kids to go through a small quest with washing, refueling and changing car wheels before the race.
There will be a joyful meeting with the heroes of the cartoon "Cars", where everyone is trying to win the main cup. Mario, Fixies, Ben 10, Santa and other characters are not averse to compete for speed and experience extreme sports. In front of them on the road there are bound to be springboards and obstacles that need to be bypassed, so care must be increased.
Circuit racing features
Ring races are those races that take place on closed tracks. The classics are Formula 1 (2.3), GP1 (2.3), Super Production, Touring, but karting and rallycross, although also held on closed roads, do not belong to circuit races.
A track with a smooth, even surface is called an autodrome, and it also has its own characteristics:
- A complex of structures intended for spectators and the maintenance of equipment.
- Racing track with white markings.
- The track has safety elements - nets, curbs, stopping fences, departure zones.
- The ring track converges at one point - the point of departure of the car and its finish line coincide.
Circuit racing games go beyond the traditional
If in reality strict rules apply for circuit racing, then computer fun can afford to move away from rigid boundaries.
You can play drift racing games by driving a car on an icy road. The car enters with a slight deviation from the direct course. It is especially difficult to cope with it on turns, but this is the essence - the car should skid. There will be several tasks - in the first case, you need to repeat the movements as accurately as possible after the leading car, another time try to bypass other participants.
Water racing is even more difficult to attribute to circuit racing, but they are also present in this collection. Motor boats, yachts and boats put on a real show, raising fountains of spray. Everyone tries to finish the competition first, becoming the leader. We are rooting for you, and this should give you excitement and strength to become a winner.
Sometimes one of the tasks will be destruction. Crash at full speed into other cars, and the cooler the provoked accident with the participation of several objects, the better your rating will be. Going into space, you will not only leave the race track, but also the planet. And yet you are in the racing section, so start the engine, maneuver between asteroids, bypass other participants.
Race chairs around the office and help the floor polisher get the job done faster than anyone else by finishing your yard. And since we are so carried away, let's include dog and horse racing here.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Russian Circuit Racing Series (SMP RSKG) - official name since 2014 all-Russian competitions in the status of the championship, the Cup and the Championship of the Russian Federation, as well as the RAF Cup.
SMP RSKG continues the glorious traditions of domestic motorsport: in 2020, circuit racing in Russia will turn 65 years old.
The Russian circuit racing series is held under an agreement between the RAF and the SMP Racing motorsport development program. Up to 90 athletes are declared for the stages. Competitions are held at modern circuits in the Moscow region, Grozny, Sochi, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Smolensk. In 2020, the geography will expand due to the opening of the new Igora Drive circuit near St. Petersburg, where a joint round of the SMP RSKG and the international DTM series will take place.
The races are broadcast live on the smp-rskg.tv website, where videos of past stages are also available. Since 2019, online broadcasts have become available to a large audience of the Yandex.Efir Internet portal.
Races SMP RSKG go to live TV channels "Match TV" and "Match! Country", and review programs - on the channel "Auto Plus".
intense fight the best pilots, rivalry of foreign cars with primordially domestic models, show programs and entertainment for fans - all this you can see at the stages of the Russian circuit racing series.
Under the leadership of Oleg Petrikov and the support of SMP Racing, Russian circuit motorsport received a new impetus: new media partners were attracted, online broadcasts of races were organized, reports, reviews and thematic programs about the SMP RSKR were broadcast on television and radio stations. The official tire partner of the Russian series is YOKOHAMA. The number of spectators at the stage reaches 22,000 people.
The teams are sponsored by oil companies. LUKOIL and ROSNEFT, holding TAIF, a well-known manufacturer of automotive components Delphi, company Industrial Power Machines, oil brand G Energy and many others.
In season 2017 SMP Racing and LADA Sport ROSNEFT concluded an agreement, according to which AVTOVAZ and ROSNEFT acted title partners of SMP RSKG. This made it possible to increase the audience of fans of the Russian Circuit Racing Series, and the spectators of each stage got a chance win a new hatchback LADA Kalina Drive Active.
Up to 90 pilots, the number of participants per season - up to 118 people.
Thanks to the support of the Women in Motorsports Committee and Women's Health magazine, the three most successful pilotesses of the Russian circuit racing series in the 2017 season shared the prize money one million rubles.
Live broadcasts of races are available on TV channels Match TV, Match! Country and AUTO24. Also, online broadcasts and an archive of races of all seasons of the SMP RSKG can be found at media site smp-rskg.tv. In the new season, you can follow the SMP RSKG races on the Yandex.Efir portal.
CLASSES
Since 2015 in SMP RSKG presented cars 5 classes: Touring and Touring Light in the status of the Russian Championship, super production and National (since 2019 - S1600), where the Cups of the country are played, as well as Championship SMP RSKG National Junior (since 2019 - S1600 Junior). In the 2020 season, the number of classes will increase to 8 - thanks to the introduction of offsets S2000(in it, gentleman drivers on TCR cars with DSG gearboxes will fight for the Russian Cup), SMP GT4 Russia(a tournament for amateur pilots who have chosen prestigious models of the international GT4 category) and Sports prototype CN(silhouettes MitJet 2L, Legends and Shortcut are allowed here). The last two classes have the status of the RAF Cup.
Touring- the most powerful cars with a capacity of about 350 hp. A similar class exists in European national championships, such cars hold the FIA ETCC European Cup. In the 2014 season, pilots on BMW 320si, LADA Granta Sport, SEAT Leon Supecopa, Subaru BRZ performed in Russian Touring. Starting from 2015, SEAT Leon Racers, prepared according to the requirements of the new international championship TCR International series, have been admitted to this class. In 2016, the number of such cars increased to eight, and in the 2017 SMP RCRS season there were twice as many cars of the TCR category: in addition to SEATs, Audi RS3 and LADA Vesta sedans will appear in the field. A year later there were Volkswagen Golf TCR, the number of pilots in Touring has reached 24.
Hyundai i30 N hatchbacks made their debut in the 2019 season (Dmitry Bragin defended his champion title on one of them for the fourth time in a row), and in total, 27 athletes. In addition, pilots with international licenses fought in the open standings for the first time. TCR Russia approved by the FIA.
super production- Touring class cars of past years or specially designed on the basis of serial ones, developing about 250 hp: Honda Civic, LADA Vesta, LADA Granta, Subaru BRZ and Mazda3.
Touring Light- compact cars with a power of about 200 hp. This is an engineering class that allows you to deeply upgrade cars of various makes and models: Kia Rio, Volkswagen Polo, Ford Fiesta, SEAT Ibiza, Renault Twingo, Peugeot 208, LADA Kalina NFR. For the 2017 season, the Hyundai Solaris hatchback was built according to the requirements of the Touring Light class. And in 2019, the Ravon R3 Nexia sedans started for the first time - and one of them brought Efim Gantmakher the title of vice champion.
S1600 (formerly National)- the most affordable and popular class. Since 2014, together with the most common LADA Kalina, domestically assembled Volkswagen Polo Sedan, Kia Rio, Ford Fiesta and Renault Sandero have been participating in the races. Now they will be joined by a novelty of AvtoVAZ - a restyled hatchback LADA Granta.
S1600 Junior (until 2019 - Championship of SMP RSKG National Junior) is a youth series created in 2015. Boys and girls from 14 to 17 years old take part in it on domestic cars - these are LADA Kalina hatchbacks and Volkswagen Polo sedans. The technical requirements assume the same high level security, as in the senior classes of the SMP RSKG, but a lesser degree of improvements, the use of inexpensive components and affordable entry fees.
SMP Formula 4- a formula series for young drivers, which started as part of the Northern European Championship in 2015. In the 2019 season, we saw pilots at the start who fought for the RAF Cup and shared the paddock with SMP RSKG participants from other classes.
AUTODROMES
In 2019 7 stages Russian circuit racing series will be held on 7 circuits of the country:
Fortress Groznaya
Smolensk ring
Nizhny Novgorod ring
ADM Moscow (Myachkovo)
Moscow Raceway
Sochi Circuit
In 2014 pilots of the SMP RSKG became first, who spent a race weekend at Sochi Autodrom a month before the first Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix, then performed as support races for the TCR International Series and SMP Formula 4 Championship.
COMPETITION RULES
Every race weekend pilots of each class SMP RSKG carry out two races lasting 20-30 minutes.
Until this year, the cars of the scoring groups Touring and Super Production started in a combined race. However, in the SMP RSKG - 2017, the number of applications will allow separate races for each category without prejudice to filling the starting grid and entertainment.
Class members Touring Light, National and Championship SMP RSKG National Junior also start within their accounts.
Thus, with participation at the stage of all five classes, viewers will see eight races, some of which will pass on Saturday, part - on Sunday.
In joint stages with the international body series TCR International series and formula SMP F4 Chamionship the number of races will increase.
At each stage there are trainings and qualifying races, which will determine the places of the pilots at the start of the first race, which is produced from the move. Positions are distributed in accordance with the time of passage of the track, which will show the rider. Showing the result worse than 107% of the leader's time is not allowed to compete.
starting places in the second race, where the start is made from place, determined according to the results of the previous run. top ten finishers starts in reverse order- This rule applies to all scoring groups.
SCORING AND REWARDING
This season brings back a point system similar to that adopted in the FIA championships - the only difference is that points are awarded to the first 15 finishers:
1st place - 25 points, 2nd place - 20 points, 3rd place - 16 points, 4th place - 13 points, 5th place - 11 points,
6th place - 10 points, 7th place - 9 points, 8th place - 8 points, 9th place - 7 points, 10th place - 6 points,
11th place - 5 points, 12th place - 4 points, 13th place - 3 points, 14th place - 2 points, 15th place - 1 point
Per best time in qualifying and in the race rely on 1 extra point . Thus, for a stage, an athlete can earn up to 53 points .
The season counts results of all seven stages; The one with the most points wins the class.
In SMP RSKG award ceremony winners of each race is held immediately after arrival. Cups are awarded for first, second and third places both in individual and team competition.
Cups for prizes in individual and team competitions at the end of the season are awarded at the final stage Russian circuit racing series.