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LADA Sport ROSNEFT team pilot Kirill Ladygin won the 27th “Race of Champions”, which was organized with the support of Rosneft. The competition was held at the auto testing ground in the village of Sosnovka, a suburb of Tolyatti.
The Race of Champions is an annual race held on an ice synchronous track and has no analogues in Russia. Russian pilots from various motorsport disciplines participate in the competition. This year, 16 athletes took part in the race, including Russian Formula 1 pilots, champions in circuit racing, drifting, karting, rally, ice racing and winners of international rally raids.
The competition on the main day of the race was held in 2 stages. After the qualifying paired races, in which the pilots fought for points, the quarter-final lineup was formed from 8 athletes who continued the fight for elimination in the “play-off”. According to the rules of the competition, the final races were held up to two victories.
In the end, the best was LADA Sport ROSNEFT pilot Kirill Ladygin, who won the main trophy “Silver Boat” for a record ninth time. The second step of the podium was taken by the first Russian Formula 1 pilot Vitaly Petrov, and the bronze was won by multiple rallycross champion Egor Sanin.
In the decisive races, the pilots competed in a new car based on the LADA Iskra model. The sports LADA Iskra is a project of the LADA Sport ROSNEFT team, a car specially prepared for participation in ice racing. The cars were fueled with high-octane Pulsar-100 gasoline and also used Rosneft Magnum Racing sports motor oil.
The competition attracted several thousand fans and motorsport enthusiasts from Tolyatti and Samara, as well as neighboring regions, who actively supported the pilots during the races.
Since 2015, Rosneft has been the general sponsor of LADA Sport ROSNEFT, actively participating in the development of Russian motorsports. Since 2021, the LADA Sport ROSNEFT team has been using Rosneft Magnum Racing sports motor oil, which provides increased engine protection in extreme operating conditions and achieves success on the track.
Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft January 27, 2025
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