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.

Teams and drivers

All teams and drivers were Russian-registered, excepting Mika Salo, who raced under Finnish Racing license.

Touring Absolute (United S2000)

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

Touring Light

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

National

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

Junior

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

Calendar and results

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]

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

Championship standings

Scoring system

Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10thPoleFL
Points Round 1–625181512108642111
Points Round 737,52722,51815129631,51,51,5

Touring and Super Production

Pos. Driver NIZ SMO SOC KAZ SMO MSC KAZ  Pts. 
Touring
1 Aleksey Dudukalo 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 337
2 Roman Golikov 8 2 2 3 4 1 3 4 4 Ret 3 3 1 2 225,5
3 Rustam Akiniyazov 7 Ret 3 2 3 Ret 1 2 3 DSQ 4 4 2 1 202,5
4 Vitaly Larionov 1 3 4 4 2 3 Ret 3 2 Ret 2 2 Ret 4 188.5
5 Anton Badoev Ret Ret 7 5 5 4 4 5 5 3 Ret 5 4 5 128
6 Andrey Artyushin Ret 14 10 11 7 Ret 13 13 7
Super Production
1 Maksim Chernev 5 5 5 11 6 5 10 6 6 NC 8 6 9 6 194.5
2 Andrey Yushin 9 4 9 8 Ret Ret 11 8 7 2 12 9 7 12 124.5
3 Vladislav Nezvankin 2 Ret 6 7 7 9 8 Ret Ret 4 Ret 14 5 11 115.5
4 Maksim Simonov 4 8 Ret 12 8 8 5 7 8 DSQ 5 15 10 14† 114.5
5 Lev Tolkachev 6 Ret 10 6 9 6 7 DSQ 9 Ret 13 13 6 9 105
6 Pavel Yashin 10 6 8 15 Ret 10 Ret 11 9 5 11 7 14† 8 97
7 Efim Gantmacher 10 11 8 7 63
8 Aleksander Tupitsyn 11 7 11 10 Ret Ret 9 9 11 6 14 12 Ret Ret 56
9 Sergey Shalunov 6 Ret 6 10 37
10 Sergey Zagumennov Ret 9 DNS 7 Ret Ret DNS Ret Ret 8 Ret Ret 28.5
11 Denis Kachalkov 11 10 24
12 Vadim Mesheryakov 9 16 12
13 Vitaly Primak DNS 10 10
14 Sergey Pluzhnov 12 DNS 6
15 Aleksey Belogolov WD WD Ret 7 5
16 Vladislav Kubasov Ret 13 DNS Ret 2
Pos. Driver NIZ SMO SOC KAZ SMO MSC KAZ  Pts. 
ColourResult
GoldWinner
SilverSecond place
BronzeThird place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Teams' Championship

Pos. Driver NIZ SMO SOC KAZ SMO MSC KAZ  Pts. 
1 Lukoil Racing Team 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 594
7 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 Ret 3 3 2 2
2 Ralf-Car Team Ret 14 10 11 7 Ret 13 13 6
S2000 and Super Production teams inelegible for points
AMG Motorsport 1 3 4 4 2 3 4 3 2 3 2 2 4 4 0
Ret Ret 7 5 5 4 Ret 5 5 Ret Ret 5 Ret 5
Innocenti Lada Sport 2 Ret 6 7 7 6 7 10 10 4 13 13 5 9 0
6 Ret 10 6 9 9 8 Ret Ret Ret Ret 14 6 11
Yushin Racing 9 4 9 8 Ret Ret 10 8 7 2 12 9 7 12 0
Syzran Racing Team 4 8 Ret 12 8 8 5 7 8 DSQ 5 15 10 14† 0
Subaru Russia 5 5 5 11 6 5 11 6 6 NC 8 6 8 6 0
9 11 9 7
Neva Motorsport 10 6 8 15 DNS 10 Ret 11 9 5 11 7 14† 8 0
WD WD Ret 7
Shalunov Racing 6 Ret 6 10 0
ZAO TD Kurganskie Pritsepy 11 7 11 10 Ret 12† 9 9 11 6 14 12 Ret Ret 0
Zagumennov Racing DSQ 9 DNS 7 Ret Ret DNS Ret 14 12 Ret Ret 0
Balashihinskaya UC DOSAAF Russia 11 10 0
Podmoskovie Motorsport Ret 13 DNS Ret 0
Pos. Driver NIZ SMO SOC KAZ SMO MSC KAZ  Pts. 
ColourResult
GoldWinner
SilverSecond place
BronzeThird place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Touring Light

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. 

National

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. 

Junior

Pos. Driver NIZ SMO SOC KAZ SMO MSC KAZ  Pts. 
1 Gleb Kuznetsov 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 3 1 1 129,75
2 Yuliya Strukova 3 2 3 2 1 1 2 2 5 3 96,75
3 Sergey Golovanov DNS DNS 2 3 4 4 4 1 2 4 72,5
4 Aleksey Shin 4 4 5 3 3 Ret 3 2 56,75
5 Vladimir Gusev 2 3 2 Ret 4 5 39

References

  1. ↑ "Russia to embrace the TCR concept". tcr-series.com. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "List of approved drivers" (PDF). raf-rcrs.ru. 4 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "SMP RCRS final at Kazan Ring". raf-rcrs.ru. 7 September 2015.
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