23rd Race of stars "za rulem" will be held on February 23, 2012 in Moscow? We present you with this and other facts about the main event of the winter racing season.
Thirty years later. The cars and the pilots have changed, but the best are identified in the same way: six cars at the start, the distance is three circles (Central Moscow Hippodrome). The star race was only on six tracks. In different years it was received by the Central Moscow Hippodrome, the ice of the lake in Goose-Crystal, the capital sport complex "Izmaylovo", the Ramenskiy national racecar, Izhevsk ippodrome, Moscow road car "Tushino-Ring". The victory in the race was won by "Moskvic-412", "Moskvic-412 -Ij", VAZ-21011, VAZ-2102, VAZ-2108, Volkswagen Beetle, VAZ-21083, "Opel-Corsa". Most of all victories to the eighth family of AVTOVAZ-six, from 1988 to 1993. Since 2006, the winner of the Race of Stars is determined in the finals, where the six best pilots start on the same machines. The technique for the finals was "Lada-Kalina", "Sitroen-P2", "Reno-Logan" prepared by the sports departments of the factories. In the selection part of the Race of the stars, the future winners were in the Honda-Sivik, Volkswagen Polo, the Sietroen-Saks and Lada-Kalina cars. The stars of Sébastien Loeb, Nelson Pike, David Kultard, Romain Grozhan and Vitaly Petrov were on the start of the race. One of the winners of the Race of Stars was Finns Miko Hietinen (1988). The President of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), Jean-Marie Balestre and Max Mosley, visited the stars as honorary guests. They used to drive all the time. In 1988, there was a fracture, and today on the ice track only the front transmission (Ramenskiy Republican Hippodrome). Nikolai Big, Boris Maslov, Serhiy Uspensky, Timur Sadredinov and Cyril Ladygin won two days of the race. The "Behind the helm" magazine has announced that whoever wins three times will receive the main prize of the Honka Stars-Crystal tyre manufactured in 1984 by the masters of Goose-Crystal. Special tires were used for the first time in 1982. Then the options "race on the thorpe" and "race without spins" have been alternated for a long time. The last years at the qualifying stage used both options: one on the spigot, the other with no spigot. The finalists for the finals are invariably taken to sports tyres with spires. Twice the race was under threat due to a strong thaw (1990-Ramenskoe, 2008-Moscow). The Moscow hippodrome was specially driven by snow from the cooler regions, but the pilots were still chasing the puddle. It is also a memorable year: the patch of ice trails at Izmailova, under which the heat was passing, was periodically frozen with liquid nitrogen. The fastest route of the race of stars over the years is a 1,800-meter track of oval configuration at the Central Moscow track. In 2010, the crew was officially trained. (...) (...) Maleev on "La de la Calina" has passed the best lap here for 55.617 s with an average speed of 116.5 km/h. The speed in the straight sections was up to 165 km/h. How many times do we prohibit the contact line on the road, but the price of a steel tyre is so great ... On the horse, prestige! A man who has been completely at all the past Honk stars works in the "behind the wheel" editorial office. This is Mark Grigorievich Tilicevic, in 1978, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, now Councilor of the Editor-in-chief. I would like to know if the same permanent audience is among the readers of the magazine.