At the end of September 2008 in the suburban Sorochanov the final of the championship of Formula Drift. " By the end of the season drift was conducted V stage, during which professional players were laid to complete, to find out who's the best. September 27, 2008 at the last stage of the championship "Formula Drift" in Sorochanah periodically was rain. And while it was on the arm members, which could save on tires, for the spectators it was a serious test. But the fickle weather relegated to second place thanks to the efforts of leading, cheerfully commenting is happening on the track and cheer came at the last race of the season drift. Especially in this day and the pilots themselves were blown away - accumulated in previous phases of considerable experience, they tried to drive "all the money in the final. At Stage V championship came 35 participants from Russia and Ukraine (the latter country was represented by a team of Formula Drift. Ukraina). From St. Petersburg arrived 6 cars. Almost all participants came to the previous stage, but the six pilots arrived at the "Formula Drift" for the first time. In motor sport ever case of force majeure, the machines are working at the limit, so no one is safe from damage. So, was eliminated from the competition Vladimir Fedorin on a unique rear wheel drive Subaru Impreza. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that this car - the first Russian all-wheel drive converted from a drift car. Has become a legend of the drift-season winner of stage IV Championship Fedor Sparrow on VAZ-2105 was also unable to take part in competitions because of the failure of his war horse. Car William Ghukasian Nissan Silvia S14 is out of order, so the pilot was forced to ride a Nissan Skyline R34 his team mate 2NR Works of Alexander Fedotov. The competition consisted of two parts - the qualification and final races. Qualifying race lasted all morning, each participant receives points based on that decide whether he gets in the top 16. Before martial races held the traditional parade of participants, led by the pace car followed championship of Formula Drift, the first in Russia, Nissan Skyline GT-R of the last generation. After the applause of the audience were named members enrolled in TOP-16, who were to compete in the pairs race. Arrivals were evaluated by three judges, who monitored the route from above, as well as they watched the maneuvers of the parties with the help of monitors, which were broadcast vehicles. Where cases of disputed issues, the arbitrators included repeated viewing and evaluated the technique with several positions (there were several cameras). Qualifying heats were evaluated on four criteria - the trajectory angle, speed, entertainment. In the early arrival party has 100 points, as the assumption of error scores declined (for every mistake deducted 1 point). If the participant finishes without losing any points, his arrival is considered ideal. In case two or more participants scored the same number of points, re-arranged races. Paired races are measured at the same four criteria, and participants are evaluated together on a "better / worse." Judges allocate 10 points between the parties, if scores were distributed equally, arranged re-run. Wet asphalt affected the results of many pilots who have shown excellent results on a dry track. In the first round competed Timothy Kosharnaya on Nissan 200SX and Andrei Bogdanov Toyota Altezza SXE10. Andrew came to support his soklubovtsy, amateur model Toyota Altezza. Timothy won, but in the next round it traveled Vitaly Ignatenko of the team the Formula Drift. Ukraine ". By the way, Ukrainian participants also supported the fans with their rostrum, rang constantly approving cheers. Vitaly Vavilov on Nissan 200 SX S14, 5 wins in the race with Ilia Kondratiev on Toyota Mark II JZX90, but further TOP8 he did not pass. Yevgeny Kharitonov at Toyota Altezza took second place in the qualifying races, but in the quarterfinals he lost to William Ghoukasyan. Ghukasian on Nissan Silvia S14 scored more points in the doubles race than Basil Zykov, but in the semifinals during the arrival of Boris Skvortsov on Nissan 200SX S13 it launched, which is why the victory was awarded to Boris. A lot of noise in the stands caused the arrival of two Ukrainians - Vitaly Ignatenko from Kiev and Alexander Grinchuk (Green) from Odessa. Grin has shown excellent results in the semifinals and then defeated Boris Skvortsov in the final. The winner of the V segment of the Russian Championship "Formula Drift" in 2008 was Alexander Grinchuk, silver went to Boris Skvortsov, and Bronze - William Ghoukasyan. After awarding the winners announced the outcome of the championship in 2008: third place went to William Ghukasyan, second place - Ilia Kondratiev from the team JZ-Brothers, a leader of the overall classification was Andrei Bogdanov of the team MDT. Congratulated the winners of the sponsors and organizers of the championship, and many of the participants have already begun to prepare the Formula Drift 2009. General producer of the championship "Formula Drift" Oleg Vorontsov, summed up the tremendous work done by the organizers with participants: "This year we had a full championship, consisting of five phases, with the use of practices leading competitions in drifting. Was opened in Ukraine and established a team of Formula Drift. Ukraine ". A number of leading companies in the automotive industry have expressed a desire to support our project in the future, which will undoubtedly contribute to further development and popularization of this new and extremely spectacular discipline. " Text: Olga Zabelkina.
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