Has started the third season of Formula Drift. " The first stage of the championship was held May 23 in St. Petersburg. Experienced members and newcomers have shown fans autoshow spectacular races and judges have noted promising pilot season. Organization stage I championship Formula Drift "in the northern capital engaged in" Team St. Petersburg drifters. " The boys arranged the track and prepare shopping mall parking lot "Northern Mall for the big event. From Moscow to St. Petersburg arrived five transporters with cars and participants Series Pro Street, as well as several buses and cars with single fans. The championship was attended by 46 pilots from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Odessa. This is a record number of drifters in a short while history of Formula Drift. " Among the familiar stages of last year's Nissan Silvia, Toyota Altezza, Toyota Mark II and the VAZ-2105 new players: zadneprivodnye Subaru Impreza and some BMW. Incidentally, the only domestic car drifting championship still paid tribute to the Japanese auto industry - in winter the engine was replaced by a 2-liter engine from SR20DE Nissan Silvia. Drifters fought for victory in the three offsets: Street Series, and Pro in Formula Drift and the stage of the Formula Drift. North-West ". In the professional class were the best pilots last year and a few newcomers this season, has successfully passed the exam "ikat". Beautifully demonstrated excellent technique CLIMBING pilots were entitled to participate in paired contests. Pro-license went to St Petersburg Oleg Tsapliku and Evgeny Leonov from the team «CHE-Drift Team», Muscovites, Yevgeny Kharitonov of the «Moscow Drift Team» and Vladimir Yurkin of «Automans». At the qualifying races, it became clear that the technique of pilots affected winter "hibernation". Drift involves constant training to not only get out of shape, but also to improve already acquired skills. But the Russian climate, unfortunately, does not allow year-round to organize high-speed races on dry pavement, and to remove the indoor playground is quite problematic. And not all cars were on the move, the winter - a season of technical improvements of cars. Judges Cup Denis «Marseille» Trusov, Alexander «Smoll» Smolar and Konstantin Avsharov, to evaluate the performances almost 50 pilots observed an unexpected error, even in experienced drifters. A better estimate on the training received Alexander Grinchuk from Odessa, party Pro-Series. Behind him, gaining 85.6 points, went from St. Petersburg Yuri Kolosov. Third the number of points in the qualifying races was Oleg Tsaplik, the newly-born winner of Pro-license. In Formula Drift.Street "the first place and reward in the form of Pro-license got Muscovite Dmitri Akimov of the team« JZ-Brothers ». Felix Chitipahovyan from St. Petersburg was awarded by the judges as a promising pilot, he got the silver in a series of Street. Another representative of the team «JZ-Brothers», Vitaly Polishchuk at Toyota Mark II, took third place. In the professional series in the first place were eight pairs of drifters. Heated speeches "junior" series fans are doubly worried about each of the sixteen pilots. The first race was held between the two champions - Andrei Bogdanov ("Formula Drift" 2008 season ") from the command« MDT »and Alexander Grinchuk (Champion of Ukraine) from« D-Project ». Most points went to Odessa. In the quarter due to an unfortunate misstep at the start (marshals improperly gave a visual signal), Oleg Tsaplik («CHE-Drift Team») has conceded victory to Semyon Alexeyev («Moscow Drift Team»). Oleg showed excellent technique of passing, but the result was not counted, and when re "record-" the result of an attempt to disappoint. In the semifinals, agreed Fedor Vorobiev, who became a beloved figure in the last year for his spectacular performances at Zhiguli "and" Green "(Grinchuk). Judges are not easily given a victory Vorobyev, as both drivers proved themselves very worthy. Second place went to Semyon Alexeyev from a serious error - it has deployed. The winner of the Formula Drift. Pro »Kosharnaya was Timothy from Saint Petersburg. This can be considered his double victory, as he took an active part in organizing the first stages of the championship "Formula Drift" and "Formula Drift. North-West this season. Thanks to the work Timothy and his friends from "Team St. Petersburg drifters" lovers drift got great pleasure from the auto show. The second stage of the championship "Formula Drift" will be held in Moscow on June 27, 2009. A St. Petersburg next stage of the championship of Formula Drift. North-West "will be held on July 4. In the Far East, too, regional competitions are held under the auspices of the Production Center "CT-Production", held there for two phases of Formula Drift. " Text: Olga Zabelkina.
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