On May 27 and 28, the 1st stage of the RDRC 2023 racing series took place. 

At the start of the Russian Drag Racing Cup, cars of the Pro Street and Street classes came out, especially the audience was pleased with the demonstration races of unique dragsters and promods. At the first stage, more than a dozen new pilots debuted, more than 140 participants in all classes were announced for the season. 

One of the events of the weekend was the first launch of Dmitry Lisin's car, which he will drive in the fastest class of the Russian Championship — class 4.3 — on a Chevrolet Camaro Pro Mod 68. The launch was successful, in addition, after just a couple of workouts Dmitry showed an excellent time.

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More than 100 athletes took part in the second stage of the RDRC on June 10-12. 

At the stage, along with the race, the Mad Buckets American car festival was held, where iconic retro copies of different years were presented: classic American oil cars and rare European cars, pickups and modern cars with a capacity of up to a thousand horsepower! 

This was the first stage, where absolutely all classes provided for by the regulations rode in the standings — including brutal “promods” and “arrows” of the highest categories of the PRO class. A powerful struggle unfolded in other classes — Pro Street, Street, Club. Some of the regular participants moved from body cars to dragsters at this stage, and some from dragsters to the Pro Modified category, which clearly shows the significant growth of the Championship and the discipline as a whole.

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Intermediate stages of the season:

• 4.3 - class newcomer Sergey Nikitin remains in first place, the gap from Konstantin Knight is 15 points 
• 7.6 - according to the results of the 2nd stage, the winner of last year, Roman Dubovets, took 1st place, Roman Nagervadze took second place 
•  8.6 - Alexander Lobachev is in first place, in stage 2 he beat last year's winner Maxim Kurguzkin 
• ProET class fight between Igor Heinrichs on BMW M5 and Borisova Anastasia on BMW M8 (gap of 7 points)

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On August 12-13, the 4th stage of the Russian Drag Racing Championship and Cup and the AUTOMAX-2023 Festival took place. 

Participants in the Pro, Pro Street, Street and Club classes fought for victory in difficult weather conditions. Hundreds of spectators witnessed impressive races of fast and bright racing cars. Incredible "arrows" and “promods” with a capacity of up to 4,500 hp also entered the track . 

The first nitromethane car in Russia, Funny Car by Alexander Albin, was also presented as part of the stage. This “fanikar” is an NHRA competition car and, concurrently, is the former car of the legendary racer John Force. The power of Alexander Albin's car has been reduced to meet the requirements of the Russian class 3.66 and is approximately 7,000 hp using 90% nitromethane.

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On the first day of the race, Evgeny Demikhov on a Honda Civic (450 hp) updated his own record: he drove a quarter in 9.530 seconds — today this is the best time among atmospheric front-wheel drive cars in the CIS countries.

On Sunday, a world record was set among stock Audi RS Q8: Alexander Oganesyan drove a quarter in 10.930 seconds.

A Subaru Meet was held in the RDRC Racepark paddock, in which every owner of a Subaru car could take part — more than 280 cars of the brand were exhibited in the spectator area. The best copies became the winners of the audience vote.

On the last weekend of summer, RDRC Racepark became a platform where more than 5 thousand spectators witnessed amazing races of racing cars and participants of a large festival.