Race Records: 12 Records per night

At the Dmitrov range held daily race "12 records for 24 hours." Nine well-known Russian riders squeezed all the juice from the Seat Ibiza 1,4 rain. The race record held May 25 at Dmitrov near Moscow avtopoligone. Participants finished exactly 24 hours later, on May 26. For two days and nights of pouring rain with occasional breaks for a nasty drizzle. But despite the bad weather, because of which decreased speed mode, the pilots went on the road, sparing no effort and machinery. Seat Ibiza ST 1,4 comply with Group 2 Class 7, the International Automobile Federation and the RAF. But since so far the machine from the class of 1,1 to 1,4 l in Russia records have not yet set, drivers have installed the very first record bar, which in future will be a guide for other pilots. During the day, competition was established on 12 Russian and international speed records at distances of 10, 100, 500, 1000 miles and miles and time parameters of 1, 6, 12 and 24 hours. The event was attended by three teams, each of which had three pilots. Behind the wheel of Spanish hatchbacks Ibiza New sat eminent avtosportsmeny: Honored Master of Sports USSR Yuri Lesovskaya, participants in the race the 24 Hours Nurburgring "sport master Boris Shulmeyster, two-time champion avtomnogoboryu Sergey Larin and his son, a multiple winner of championships in karting Kirill Larin, winner of records of Russia Oleg Kesselman and others. Incidentally, the day of the race finish Yuri Lesovskaya celebrated 78 years! Yuri Ivanovich participated in marathons in London - Sydney in 1968, London - Mexico City in 1970 and many other national and international competitions. All cars taking part in the race, fully standardized, with zero mileage - no additional modifications to them was not made. The pilots were chasing them on a 14-mile high-speed ring Dmitrovsky landfill at a speed of 170 km / h. Periodically, the machine stopped by a pit stop to change pilots, refueling and a cursory examination of techies. In each car were GPS-trackers from the navigation system "AVTOSPUTNIK" which recorded the time and speed at each point of the path and the total mileage race. The tracks will soon be available on the Internet. Official results of the records recorded on special equipment, will be announced next month. Cars and drivers reached the finish line intact. Is that the one car attached to a little bump on arrival at the pit stop, she had dented fender, bumper and door. And the other was torn plastic that connects the windshield and side stand. Sport master Boris Shulmeyster, a multiple winner and the winner of Russian and international competitions in the ring and track event was pleased. "Excellent entered the race. The weather is not spoiled - almost always had to ride on wet roads. But all good pilots lost control - he said. - I have had the experience of participation in this event several years ago when we were with the driver Oleg Kesselmanom participated with a 24-hour speed record on a Saab 9-3 Aero. The more often we'll set records, the higher will raise the bar for our successors. " Text: Olga Zabelkina.