Absolute Drag Battle-2008

Over the weekend, to Krasnoyarsk, where a fourth "Absolute Drag Battle in Mid-Russia, had attracted the attention of many thousands of fans of drag racing. The most powerful engine of our country came there to find out who's fastest. Krasnoyarsk is the fourth consecutive year in one weekend is the Russian capital of drag racing. Here since 2005 held the national championship for the pair race at the track length of 402 meters. The first two battles were carried out on normal roads, not watered with a special "glue" (a means for better coupling of the wheel tire road surface). Last year, in Krasnoyarsk, was built for track racing "Red Ring", which were transferred to the competition. The first three years are the fastest machines came from Vladivostok. In 2005 and 2006 champion became the Roman Nagervadze the team Ares Motorsport, while last year the best time showed Alex Krivolapov the team Overtech. Even before the start of the race became known gathering from a distance of Roman Nagervadze from Vladivostok, multiple winner of races at 402 meters. July 4 in the engine of his Nissan Skyline GT-R disappeared compression in the first and sixth cylinders, showered galvanic deposition (geared to collect the order from HKS, one of Japan's largest companies for the production of tuning parts). Another participant in the previous drag Battle Ruslan Zuev, pilot of Overtech, too, was forced to retrain from the party in the audience - it fizzled out due to failure in the engine. And his Nissan Skyline GT-R has helped parts of his team, they found a car Alexei Krivolapova. Fault in the motor Honda Integra also prevented to take part in competitions at the Red ring of Alexander Kuznetsov from Abakan. Weather during the Battle was overcast, so the usual schedule of events made changes - it lasted two days instead of one. On the first day of arrival red ring was always wet from the rain. In the evening went on the road "vehicle for drying, and then passed the competition front-wheel drive. The participants competed in the FWD class strip with no glue, no one of them drove 402 meters in less than 11 seconds. The winner was Denis Ponomarev, the pilot of the team from Krasnoyarsk on the car Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution II. He was awarded a technical victory (car breakdown, with whom he had to chase). For the qualifying rounds of classes RWD and 4WD on the road caused the adhesive (for better grip of the special wheel tire and the road). State of the ring caused discontent among some pilots - they complained that the track is not completely dry, and it can add fractions of seconds to real time. During the quarterfinal rounds wheel-drive cars from the road flew Nissan Skyline GT-R, driven by Stanislav Lunev was sitting (Chelyabinsk), and in the semifinals at the VAZ-2108 Dmitry Pleshakov (Krasnodar) engine caught fire. By the evening of July 5 before the final races came Denis Belikov from Vladivostok on the Toyota Soarer, and John Kievich from Krasnodar on the Dodge Viper, and Maria Panova from Moscow to the Toyota Soarer and Dmitry Vjalyh from Omsk on Nissan Skyline GT-R. They had to fight for first place in the classroom RWD and 4WD. On Sunday morning the weather was good, and 10 am start of the race: the best time among the rear-wheel drive vehicles showed Denis Belikov, traveling 402 meters at 9.983 seconds, and among the best four-wheel drive was Dmitri Vjalyh, pilot of Skala, who overcame kvoter in 9.146 seconds. Another significant event of absolute drag Battle 2008 was a new speed record set by Maria Panova at Toyota Soarer - she raced along the length of a quarter mile in just 8.702 seconds! This girl is the second time participating in the Drag-Battle, last year, she represented the team from Nakhodka. The previous speed record was set by Roman Nagervadze. In the final overall classification came out in August best pilots in the Battle. Quarter-finals took place between the pilots from Vladivostok Alexei Krivolapova and Anatoly Gusev, both on Nissan Skyline GTR. In this battle won Gusev, before reaching the finish line in 9.328 seconds. Then, for the title fight to John Kievich Dodge Viper and Valery Ladygin on Nissan Skyline GT-R - victory came Ladygin time 10.242 seconds. During the race, John started twice before traffic lights, but after two false starts, it is still allowed to check-in (the cause of a false start announced instrumentation error). During the race, the American suddenly slowed down and came to the finish line as much as 27 seconds of time - the pilot explained it to fail to configure the onboard computer. Third pair of quarterfinal began Dmitry Vjalyh on Nissan Skyline GT-R and Stanislav barley on Nissan Silvia. First-come, Dmitry, his time was 8.969 seconds. Latest check in the quarterfinals between Denis Belikov and Maria Panova brought to the semifinals Maria eventually 9.204 seconds. Both drivers were on the Toyota Soarer: Mary prepared a car workshop Total Race - mechanics made the car all-wheel drive and equipped with twin-turbo engine, thereby increasing the capacity up to 987.5 liters. with.; guys from Total Race also made by the consultants in preparing the Soarer by Denis, its rear-wheel drive drag car has under the hood of a herd of 1000 liters. with. In the semi-final races Vjalyh left behind Ladygina flying kvoter for 9.117 seconds. It is noteworthy that both their cars were prepared in the same studio. In the race between Krivolapova and Panova, first-come, Alex, having driven 402 meters for 9.211 seconds. At the entrance to the finish of the Nissan Skyline GT-R the smoke - the radiator blew up, but this did not prevent his victory. Began immediately to repair the machine to process all joined the team from Vladivostok, but unfortunately, not yet. Therefore, the absolute champion title went to Dmitri Vjalyh from Omsk, the pilot team Skala. This victory was interrupted to take away the tradition Cup winner in the Far East - now reward perekochuet in Siberia.