{"id":2319,"date":"2016-08-05T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/2016\/08\/05\/the-interest-for-drag-racing-in-russia-is-growing\/"},"modified":"2016-08-05T20:20:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:20:47","slug":"the-interest-for-drag-racing-in-russia-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/2016\/08\/05\/the-interest-for-drag-racing-in-russia-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"The interest for drag racing in Russia is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s time for the second and third event in the Russian Drag Racing Championship 2016. And the interest by\u00a0European\u00a0drag racers\u00a0to go est\u00a0is growing. At this two events, for the first time, a European drag racing team participates. David Vegter from Holland have taken the opportunity to try the Russian drag racing track in Nizhny Novgorod, about 400 km east of Moscow. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/LMP_3067_PM-David-Vegter_LP540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2321 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/LMP_3067_PM-David-Vegter_LP540.jpg\" alt=\"PM David Vegter\" width=\"540\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/LMP_3067_PM-David-Vegter_LP540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/LMP_3067_PM-David-Vegter_LP540-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>David Vegter is right now on the way to the track in\u00a0Nizhny Novgorod Russia. Just a bit delayed on the border to Russia, but in time for a racing weekend. \u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/LMP_7647_Dmitry_LP540.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David\u00a0participates in both event at this track, then he heads back to Europe and Hockenheim to race the European Championship. Then he and the team heading north to Tierp Arena for the 5<sup>th<\/sup> event in the Championship. A tuff schedule for this talent driver and team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/LMP_7647_Dmitry_LP540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/LMP_7647_Dmitry_LP540.jpg\" alt=\"Dmitry\" width=\"540\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/LMP_7647_Dmitry_LP540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/LMP_7647_Dmitry_LP540-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Adam Flamholc is already on site in\u00a0Nizhny Novgorod serving\u00a0Dmitry Samorukov and\u00a0Oleg Kondakov Vipers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adam Flamholc, Rasmus Solberg and Kent Andersson from Sweden are of course at the track to see that Russian driver Dmitry Samorukov and team is getting the best service they can get on the fastest Viper in Russia. Adam have also served Dmitrys old Viper and shipped it back to Russia. We going to see that car on the track with driver Oleg Kondakov. That means that there will be three European cars in the Russian RWD (rear wheel drive) class. And Ukraine driver Andrey Kravchenko, who built up his own Pro Modified car is also participating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/13912815_1130928546953726_Russian-Car.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13912815_1130928546953726_Russian-Car.jpg\" alt=\"Russian built PM car\" width=\"540\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/13912815_1130928546953726_Russian-Car.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/13912815_1130928546953726_Russian-Car-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Ukraine driver Andrey Kravchenkos Pro Modified car is also participating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s see how it all turns out. The interest of European drag racing is grooving in Russia and the Russian Automobile Federation is interested in developing the drag racing cooperation between Europe and Russia. An exciting future is coming up in the drag racing world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time for the second and third event in the Russian Drag Racing Championship 2016. And the interest by\u00a0European\u00a0drag racers\u00a0to go est\u00a0is growing. At this two events, for the first time, a European drag racing team participates. David Vegter from Holland have taken the opportunity to try the Russian drag racing track in Nizhny Novgorod, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}