Drag racing in Belarusian

In Belarus in one of the capital's airport opened the season drag racing. The race-charged up to several hundreds of "horse" cars and luxury sports cars Dodge Viper and Porsche Panamera. At the airport "Minsk-1 was Stage 1 of the Open Championship of Belarus on drag racing. The event was supported by the city government, so to carry it out of the airport has been frozen for several hours. Fans of racing for the first time going to this place, last year the pair of high-speed races on a quarter-mile was carried out in Bobruisk in the defunct airport. At the qualifying races arrived 53 participants. Despite the minor damage, none of the participants left the grid events. The best time in qualifying showed Dmitry Bychek by car Audi 200. Last year he set a speed record of Belarus, traveling 402 meters in 10.6 seconds. In this season of his car with the new settings the engine has raised the bar to a record 10.174 seconds. Another favorite of the race - rear-wheel drive Chevrolet Truck double national champion Dmitry feeding grounds. This car registration in 1946 - a classic American dregster: the huge hood bulges nostril inlet, and a huge round arches hidden soft wide slicks. 9-liter engine car is charged up to 900 liters. with. Machines were divided into four classes: FWD (front wheel drive), RWD (rear-drive), AWD (all wheel drive), Street and Super Street. In contrast to the Russian race, Belarusian pilots prefer European cars such as Honda Civic, Volkswagen Golf, BMW, Audi, BMW Z3, ??and so on. The latter two classes attributed sports city cars in their original condition - Subaru Impreza, Chevrolet Corvette, Audi TT, MMC Lancer Evolution ... Super Elite console have the machine, such as the Porsche Panamera, Dodge Viper, Eagle Talon. Most participants were from Minsk, a few people came from Vitebsk, Grodno, Mogilev, and two teams from Lithuania. Among the pilots even had a girl on all-wheel drive Audi TT. It is noteworthy that at the races in Minsk was not a single right-hand drive car and the cars produced in Russia. In Belarus, forbidden to register the car with the steering wheel to the right location, and the machine from Russia Belarusians prefer a little old, but more reliable foreign cars. At the airport have been allocated places for the route, around which were the audience stands, indoor parking area for participants and car clubs and entertainment. On the platform were put tuned cars and representatives of various car clubs. Those who wish to entertain during the breaks between races could take part in competitions and dance to the music. Also here was attended by representatives DOSAAF with sport bikes and the pilots of the schools of extreme driving. Stantraydery from the team along with the FSB and kvadratsiklistami kartingistami showed the show on their bikes after the qualifying rounds. Leader in the FWD class was Yuri Trubachev at Honda. A silver medal was Paul Oil on Acura Integra. In third place was Sergey Zhuchkov on Mitsubishi Eclipse. In the class of rear-wheel drive cars took first place Dmitry feeding, he famously traveled on his Chevrolet Truck opponent from Riga Artem Kochlamazashvili at BMW. Third place went to Sergey Sergeyev Minsker on Dodge Viper. Unfortunately, the final race and Street AWD class was canceled because of heavy rain. Spectators and pilots were hoping that the rain started and finished the route prosushat, but after a few minutes of rain intensified. Organisers were forced to cancel the competition as high-speed races on a wet road is unsafe. The best result in qualifying among the all-wheel drive vehicles showed Dmitry Bychek the Audi 200, after passing 402 meters in 10.174 seconds. Behind him with a serious backlog was Constantine Sinebok on Subaru Impreza, his time was 11.7 seconds. Third place was in the pocket of Dmitry Kondratenko, his Eagle Talon overcame kvotermayl for 11.8 seconds. In the class of Street fastest quarter-mile traveled Alexander Kodashevich at Nissan 200SX (12,465 seconds), Artem Starovoitov for Subaru Impreza (12,487 seconds) and Ilya Kovalyonok on Subaru (12,511 seconds). By the way, 8.3-liter Dodge Viper Dmytro Marchenko drove 402 meters in 12.676 seconds, and the Chevrolet Corvette Artem Kaminsky came to the finish line in 12.867 seconds. Text: Olga Zabelkina. Photos: Olga Zabelkina.