Supertourism
Appearance
Category | Touring cars |
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Country | Russia |
Inaugural season | 1995 |
Folded | 2003 |
Constructors | Ford, IZh, Honda, Lada, Toyota, Suzuki, VW |
Last Drivers' champion | Alexey Dudukalo |
Last Teams' champion | Lukoil Racing |
Supertourism or Tourism-1600 is a former touring car racing series held in Russia in 1995-2003.
History
[edit]Series starts in USSR in 1960s as A-1600. Base cars were VAZ-2101 and Lada Riva. After USSR dissolution series was abandoned.
In 1995 series was relaunched as Tourism-1600 with status Championship of Russia. In 2001 series was renamed to Supertourism. But budget and technical race of leaders reduced number of teams. After 2003 season 2 lead teams (Lada and Lukoil Racing) left championship. Series was closed.
Champions
[edit]Season | Championship | ASPAS Cup | ||||
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Drivers' Champion | Car | Teams' Champion | Drivers' Champion | Car | Teams' Champion | |
2003 | Alexey Dudukalo | Lada 21103 | Lukoil Racing | - | - | - |
2002 | Alberto Scilla | Lada 21103 | Lukoil Racing | - | - | - |
2001 | Alberto Scilla | Lada 21103 | Lukoil Racing | - | - | - |
2000 | Alexey Vasilyev | Honda Civic | TNK Racing | - | - | - |
1999 | Nikolay Mezentsev | Lada 21083 | Lukoil Racing | - | - | - |
1998 | Alexey Glebov | Honda Civic | Nevskoe koltso | Vladimir Cherevan | Lada 21083 | Lukoil Racing |
1997 | Alexey Vasilyev | Lada 21083 | Miller Pilot | Alexey Vasilyev | Lada 21083 | Lukoil Racing |
1996 | Alexey Vasilyev | Lada 21083 | Andrey Ryzhov | Lada 21083 | ||
1995 | Mikhail Tarakanov | Toyota Corolla | Andrey Ryzhov | Lada 21083 |
External links
[edit]- Lukoil Racing Supertourism history (in Russian)
- Autoreview newspaper archive (in Russian)