2015_Russian_Circuit_Racing_Series
Not to be confused with 2015 TCR Russian Series season.
The 2015 Russian Circuit Racing Series season was the second season of the Russian Circuit Racing Series, organized by SMP Racing. It was the first season with TCR class cars, competing alongside the Super 2000 TC2 and the Super Production cars.[1] It is also included Touring Light, National and Junior's championships, with all of them have their own races during the RCRS weekends. Aleksey Dudukalo won the drivers' championship, driving a SEAT Leon Cup Racer, and Lukoil Racing Team won the teams' championship.
All teams and drivers were Russian-registered, excepting Mika Salo, who raced under Finnish Racing license.
Touring Absolute (United S2000)
More information Team, Car ...
| Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Touring | ||||
| Lukoil Racing Team | SEAT Leon Cup Racer | 2 | Aleksey Dudukalo | All |
| 4 | Roman Golikov | All | ||
| 7 | Rustam Akiniyazov | All | ||
| AMG Motorsport | BMW 320i | 11 | Anton Badoev | All |
| BMW 320si | 27 | Vitaly Larionov | All | |
| Ralf-Car Team | Renault Megane RS | 22 | Andrey Artyushin | 6–7 |
| Super Production | ||||
| Ralf-Car Team | Renault Clio RS | 22 | Andrey Artyushin | 2–3 |
| Shalunov Racing | Lada Granta | 33 | Sergey Shalunov | 4, 6 |
| Neva Motorsport | Honda Civic | 37 | Pavel Yashin | All |
| 42 | Aleksey Belogolov | 2, 5 | ||
| Yushin Racing | Honda Civic | 38 | Andrey Yushin | All |
| Innocenti Lada Sport | Lada Granta | 43 | Vladislav Nezvankin | All |
| 47 | Lev Tolkachev | All | ||
| 48 | Vitaly Primak | 4 | ||
| Podmoskovie Motorsport | Honda Civic | 44 | Vladislav Kubasov | 2, 6 |
| ZAO TD Kurganskie Pritsepy | Lada Granta | 45 | Aleksandr Tupitsyn | All |
| Zagumennov Racing | Lada Granta | 51 | Sergey Zagumennov | 2–6 |
| 73 | 7 | |||
| Subaru Russia | Subaru BRZ | 46 | Efim Gantmacher[2] | 6–7 |
| 52 | Maksim Chernev | All | ||
| 55 | Vadim Meshcheryakov | 6 | ||
| 56 | Sergey Pluzhnov | 7 | ||
| Balashihinskaya UC DOSAAF Russia | Honda Civic | 54 | Denis Kachalkov | 7 |
| Syzran Racing Team | Lada Granta | 63 | Maksim Simonov | All |
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Touring Light
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| Team | Car | No. | Driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK «Suvar-Motorsport» | Renault Twingo Sport | 2 | Ildar Rakhmatullin | All |
| 11 | Ilsur Akhmetvaleev | 1,3–4,6–7 | ||
| Volkswagen Polo R2 Mk5 | 5 | |||
| B-Tuning | Volkswagen Polo R2 Mk5 | 3 | Andrey Nikolaev | All |
| 10 | Sergey Ryabov | 3–4 | ||
| 83 | Andrey Sevastyanov | All | ||
| Lada Sport Rosneft | Lada Kalina NFR | 4 | Dmitry Bragin | All |
| 30 | Mikhail Mityaev | All | ||
| Zenit Motorsport | Ford Fiesta Mk6 | 5 | Maksim Belotskiy | 6–7 |
| Ford Fiesta Mk5 | 4–5 | |||
| 21 | Pavel Sorochinskiy | 1 | ||
| 44 | Sergey Koronatov | All | ||
| PSM-Team80 | Kia Rio R2B | 7 | Aleksandr Salnikov | 1–2,4 |
| 12 | Nikolay Karamyshev | 1–2 | ||
| 24 | Vasily Krichevskiy | 4 | ||
| Podmoskovye Motorsport | Volkswagen Polo R2 Mk5 | 17 | Vladimir Cherevan | 1–5 |
| SEAT Ibiza Mk4 | 6–7 | |||
| Ford Fiesta Mk5 | 43 | Andrey Maslennikov | All | |
| Orenburg Racing | Kia Rio R2B | 19 | Rodion Shushakov | 7 |
| 27 | Andrey Radoshnov | All |
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National
More information Team, Car ...
| Team | Car | No. | Driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-Tuning | Volkswagen Polo | 1 | Mika Salo | 7 |
| 24 | Igor Samsonov | All | ||
| 25 | Anton Zakharov | 3–7 | ||
| 42 | Maksim Bronin | 1 | ||
| VAZ-2101 | 77 | Mikhail Zasadych | 1–2,5–6 | |
| Lada Sport | Lada Kalina | 2 | Andrey Petukhov | 4–7 |
| 5 | Aleksandr Samokhvalov | 4 | ||
| 6 | Mikhail Mityaev | 4 | ||
| 7 | Sergey Pluzhnov | 4 | ||
| 8 | Pavel Aleshin | 5 | ||
| 9 | Yury Arshanskiy | 5 | ||
| 17 | Vitaly Primak | 1–4,6–7 | ||
| 21 | Pavel Kalmanovich | All | ||
| Spets-Avtoplast Motor Sport | Lada Kalina | 20 | Egor Sanin | 1–3,5,7 |
| 3 | Roman Agoshkov | 1–5 | ||
| Kia Rio | 6–7 | |||
| STK «Taifmotorsport» | Lada Kalina | 4 | Dmitry Bragin | All |
| 87 | Marat Sharapov | 1,4 | ||
| 89 | Timur Shigabutdinov | 4 | ||
| 48 | Aydar Nuriev | 1–5,7 | ||
| Kia Rio | 6 | |||
| SMP Racing Russian Bears | Lada Kalina | 10 | Mikhail Maleev | 1–3 |
| 91 | Bulat Fatkhullin | 1–4,7 | ||
| PSM-Team80 | Kia Rio | 11 | Rafael Fattakhov | 3 |
| Almax Racing | Lada Kalina | 19 | Vladimir Sheshenin | All |
| 50 | Aleksandr Marushko | All | ||
| Bauman Motorsport | Lada Kalina II | 26 | Ivan Lyagusha | 1–3,6 |
| Azarenkov A. | Lada Kalina | 27 | Aleksandr Azarenkov | 4,6–7 |
| Goltsova Racing | Lada Kalina | 37 | Natalya Goltsova | All |
| Lada Kalina II | 46 | Efim Gantmakher | All | |
| Parus | Lada Kalina | 43 | Igor Alekseev | 7 |
| 56 | Vasily Korablev | 1–2,4–5,7 | ||
| 59 | Anatoly Korablev | 7 | ||
| ZAO TD Kurganskie pritsepy | Lada Kalina | 45 | Aleksandr Tupitsyn | 5 |
| Syzran Racing Team | Lada Kalina | 53 | Vyacheslav Staroverov | All |
| 63 | Maksim Simonov | All | ||
| Sergey Drebenets | Lada Kalina | 57 | Sergey Drebenets | 1–2,5–6 |
| SK «Timerkhanн» | Kia Rio | 73 | Rais Minnikhanov | 4 |
| STK «Chingizkhan» | Lada Kalina | 76 | Irek Minnakhmetov | 4 |
| Sharafiev E. | Lada Kalina | 82 | Eduard Sharafiev | 4 |
| Golovanov A. | Lada Kalina | 84 | Aleksandr Golovanov | All |
| Gaynullin A. | Lada Kalina | 85 | Albert Gaynullin | All |
| RHHCC Racing Team | Volkswagen Polo | 95 | Aleksandr Garmash | 3 |
| Lada Kalina | 1–3,5–7 | |||
| 96 | Dmitry Karnaukhov | 1–3,5,7 | ||
| Todua O. | Lada Kalina | 97 | Oleg Todua | 4 |
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Junior
More information Team, Car ...
| Team | Car | No. | Driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-Tuning | Volkswagen Polo | 25 | Gleb Kuznetsov | All |
| Shin I. | Lada Kalina | 38 | Aleksey Shin | 1,4–5,7 |
| Strukov S. | Lada Kalina | 46 | Yuliya Strukova | All |
| Golovanov G. | Lada Kalina | 84 | Sergey Golovanov | All |
| Gusev A. | Lada Kalina | 90 | Vladimir Gusev | 1,4,7 |
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The 2015 calendar consists in seven rounds, with all events scheduled to be held in Russia. The fifth round was scheduled to be held in Autodrom Moscow, but it was later moved to Smolensk Ring. The seventh round was scheduled to be held in Sochi Autodrom, but it was later moved to Kazan Ring.[3]
More information Rnd., Race ...
| Rnd. | Race | Circuit | Date | Touring winner | SP winner | TL winner | National winner | Junior winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | NRING Circuit, Bogorodsk | 16 May | Vitaly Larionov | Vladislav Nezvankin | Dmitry Bragin | Dmitry Bragin | Gleb Kuznetsov |
| 2 | 17 May | Aleksey Dudukalo | Andrey Yushin | Mikhail Mityaev | Dmitry Bragin | Gleb Kuznetsov | ||
| 2 | 3 | Smolensk Ring, Smolensk | 30 May | Aleksey Dudukalo | Maksim Chernev | Andrey Sevastyanov | Pavel Kalmanovich | Gleb Kuznetsov |
| 4 | 31 May | Aleksey Dudukalo | Lev Tolkachev | Andrey Maslennikov | Egor Sanin | Gleb Kuznetsov | ||
| 3 | 5 | Sochi Autodrom, Sochi | 20 June | Aleksey Dudukalo | Maksim Chernev | Ildar Rakhmatullin | Roman Agoshkov | |
| 6 | 21 June | Roman Golikov | Maksim Chernev | Andrey Radoshnov | Dmitry Bragin | |||
| 4 | 7 | Kazan Ring, Kazan | 11 July | Rustam Akiniyazov | Maksim Simonov | Dmitry Bragin | Vladimir Sheshenin | Yuliya Strukova |
| 8 | 12 July | Aleksey Dudukalo | Maksim Chernev | Dmitry Bragin | Albert Gaynullin | Yuliya Strukova | ||
| 5 | 9 | Smolensk Ring, Smolensk | 1 August | Aleksey Dudukalo | Maksim Chernev | Dmitry Bragin | Dmitry Bragin | Gleb Kuznetsov |
| 10 | 2 August | Aleksey Dudukalo | Andrey Yushin | Mikhail Mityaev | Albert Gaynullin | Sergey Golovanov | ||
| 6 | 11 | Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk | 5 September | Aleksey Dudukalo | Maksim Simonov | Dmitry Bragin | Aydar Nuriev | |
| 12 | 6 September | Aleksey Dudukalo | Maksim Chernev | Andrey Maslennikov | Pavel Kalmanovich | |||
| 7 | 13 | Kazan Ring, Kazan | 19 September | Roman Golikov | Vladislav Nezvankin | Ildar Rakhmatullin | Roman Agoshkov | Gleb Kuznetsov |
| 14 | 20 September | Rustam Akiniyazov | Maksim Chernev | Mikhail Mityaev | Roman Agoshkov | Gleb Kuznetsov |
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Scoring system
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| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points Round 1–6 | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Points Round 7 | 37,5 | 27 | 22,5 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 |
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Touring and Super Production
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† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.
Teams' Championship
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† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.
Touring Light
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| Pos. | Driver | NIZ | SMO | SOC | KAZ | SMO | MSC | KAZ | Pts. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dmitry Bragin | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | Ret | DSQ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 217 |
| 2 | Ildar Rakhmatullin | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 198 |
| 3 | Mikhail Mityaev | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | Ret | 10 | 1 | 2 | DNS | 8 | 1 | 177,5 |
| 4 | Andrey Nikolaev | Ret | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 165,5 |
| 5 | Andrey Maslennikov | 2 | Ret | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 154 |
| 6 | Andrey Sevastyanov | 4 | 10† | 1 | 4 | 5 | Ret | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 132 |
| 7 | Vladimir Cherevan | 3 | 5 | 9 | Ret | 3 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 126 |
| 8 | Andrey Radoshnov | Ret | 6 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 3 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 102,5 |
| 9 | Ilsur Akhmetvaleev | 10 | Ret | 9 | 8 | 11 | Ret | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 63,5 | ||
| 10 | Maksim Belotskiy | 10 | 9 | 5 | DNS | 7 | 6 | Ret | 5 | 42 | ||||||
| 11 | Sergey Koronatov | 7 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 8 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9 | DNS | 9 | 33 |
| 12 | Sergey Ryabov | 7 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 32 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Nikolay Karamyshev | Ret | 4 | 5 | 5 | 32 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Rodion Shushakov | 7 | 2 | 28,5 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Vasily Krichevskiy | 7 | 5 | 16 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Aleksandr Salnikov | 8 | DNS | 10 | 8 | Ret | Ret | 9 | ||||||||
| 17 | Pavel Sorochinskiy | 9 | 8 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | NIZ | SMO | SOC | KAZ | SMO | MSC | KAZ | Pts. | |||||||
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National
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| Pos. | Driver | NIZ | SMO | SOC | KAZ | SMO | MSC | KAZ | Pts. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dmitry Bragin | 1 | 1 | 3 | Ret | Ret | 1 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 188 | ||
| 2 | Vladimir Sheshenin | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 2 | Ret | 16 | 4 | 4 | 160,5 | ||
| 3 | Aydar Nuriev | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 5 | Ret | 4 | 13 | Ret | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 154,5 | ||
| 4 | Albert Gaynullin | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 153 | ||
| 5 | Pavel Kalmanovich | Ret | 10 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 152,5 | ||
| 6 | Roman Agoshkov | 2 | Ret | 11 | Ret | 1 | 4 | Ret | 3 | Ret | 13 | DSQ | Ret | 1 | 1 | 150,5 | ||
| 7 | Egor Sanin | 4 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 3 | Ret | 6 | 5 | 2 | 120 | ||||||
| 8 | Vasily Korablev | 13 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | Ret | 2 | 12 | 80 | ||||||
| 9 | Natalya Goltsova | 6 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 6 | DSQ | Ret | Ret | 8 | 13 | 79 | ||
| 10 | Efim Gantmakher | 11 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 58 | ||
| 11 | Igor Samsonov | 15 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 5 | Ret | 12 | 8 | Ret | 16† | 7 | 5 | Ret | 45,5 | ||
| 12 | Aleksandr Golovanov | 21 | Ret | 17 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | DNS | Ret | 16 | 39 | ||
| 13 | Andrey Petukhov | Ret | Ret | 19 | 9 | 2 | Ret | 7 | 8 | 38 | ||||||||
| 14 | Maksim Simonov | 9 | Ret | 18 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 15 | Ret | 31 | ||
| 15 | Vitaly Primak | 8 | 8 | Ret | 13 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 17 | 19 | ||||
| 16 | Anton Zakharov | 9 | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 18 | 6 | 6 | Ret | DSQ | 18 | ||||||
| 17 | Marat Sharapov | 16 | 11 | Ret | Ret | 9 | 7 | 15 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Timur Shigabutdinov | 6 | Ret | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| 19 | Vyacheslav Staroverov | 10 | 15 | 13 | 11 | Ret | 13 | 19 | 10 | 11 | Ret | 15 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 7 | ||
| 20 | Rafael Fattakhov | 8 | Ret | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 21 | Sergey Drebenets | 18 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 4 | ||||||||
| 22 | Aleksandr Marushko | 14 | 16 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 17 | 13 | 20 | 20 | DSQ | 8 | 12 | Ret | 22 | 4 | ||
| 23 | Mikhail Maleev | Ret | 13 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 24 | Pavel Aleshin | 10 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 25 | Mikhail Zasadych | 12 | Ret | 12 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 1 | ||||||||
| 26 | Bulat Fatkhullin | 20 | Ret | 14 | DNS | Ret | Ret | 18 | 11 | 16 | 18 | 1 | ||||||
| 27 | Aleksandr Garmash | 19 | Ret | 19 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 19 | 1 | ||||
| 28 | Igor Alekseev | 12 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 29 | Dmitry Karnaukhov | 22 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 0 | ||||||
| 30 | Yury Arshanskiy | 13 | 15 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 31 | Ivan Lyagusha | DNS | Ret | DNS | 18 | Ret | 18 | Ret | 13 | 0 | ||||||||
| 32 | Irek Minnakhmetov | 14 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 33 | Aleksandr Azarenkov | 20 | 15 | Ret | Ret | 21 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 34 | Rais Minnikhanov | 15 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 35 | Maksim Bronin | 17 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 36 | Oleg Todua | 17 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 37 | Aleksandr Samokhvalov | 21 | 18 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 38 | Anatoly Korablev | 18 | 20 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 39 | Aleksandr Tupitsyn | 18 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 40 | Sergey Pluzhnov | Ret | 19 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 41 | Eduard Sharafiev | Ret | DNS | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Guest drivers inelegible for points | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mika Salo | Ret | 3 | – | |||||||||||||||
| Mikhail Mityaev | 8 | 7 | – | |||||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | NIZ | SMO | SOC | KAZ | SMO | MSC | KAZ | Pts. | |||||||||
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Junior
- "Russia to embrace the TCR concept". tcr-series.com. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- "List of approved drivers" (PDF). raf-rcrs.ru. 4 September 2015.
- "SMP RCRS final at Kazan Ring". raf-rcrs.ru. 7 September 2015.
- Russian Circuit Racing Series Official website (in Russian)