Lukoil Racing

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Flag of Russia.svg Lukoil Racing
Founded1997
Team principal(s)Evgeniy Malinovskiy
Current series RCRS TCR International Series
Former series Russian Formula 1600
Russian Honda Civic Cup
Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup
Finnish Formula 3
Russian Formula 3
Formula RUS
Supertourism
Italian Formula 3
WTCC
RTCC
RRC
Noted drivers Alexey Dudukalo
Nikolay Karamyshev
Roman Golikov
James Nash
Pepe Oriola
Hugo Valente
Teams'
Championships
2016 TCR International Series
2016 RCRS Super-Production
2015-2016 RCRS Touring
2012 WTCC Yokohama Teams' Trophy
2008-11 RTCC - Touring-Light
2004-06 Russian Formula 1600
2004-06 Russian Honda Civic Cup
2003-05 Formula RUS
2003 Finnish Formula 3
2001-03 Supertourism
1999-00, 2002 Russian Formula 3
1999 Tourism-1600
1997-98 Russian Formula 3 (ASPAS)
1997-98 Tourism-1600 (ASPAS)
Drivers'
Championships
2016 RCRS Super-Production (Chernev)
2015 RCRS Touring (Dudukalo)
2013 FIA WTCC (Muller)
2013 FIA GT SERIES Pro-Am (Afanasiev Simonsen)
2013 RCRS Touring-Light]] (Kalmanovich)
2012 Russian Ice Racing (Dudukalo)
2011 Formula Abarth (Sirotkin)
2011 RTCC - Touring-Light (Sotnikov)
2010 RTCC - Touring-Light (Kozlovskiy)
2008-09 RTCC - Touring-Light (Dudukalo)
2004-06 Russian Honda Civic Cup (Dudukalo)
2005 Formula RUS (Romaschenko)
2004 Russian Formula 1600 (Pavlovskiy)
2004 Formula RUS (Afanasyev)
2003 Finnish Formula 3 (Belicchi)
2003 Formula RUS (Baiborodov)
2003 Supertourism (Dudukalo)
2002 Russian Formula 3 (Belicchi)
2002 Supertourism (Scilla)
2001 Supertourism (Scilla)
2000 Russian Formula 3 (Pedemonte)
1999 Russian Formula 3 (Pedemonte)
1999 Supertourism (Mezentsev)
1998 Russian Formula 3 (ASPAS) (Pedemonte)
1998 Supertourism (ASPAS) (Cherevan)
1997 Russian Formula 3 (ASPAS) (Pedemonte)

Lukoil Racing team is the leading Russian motorsport organization; its operations including management, driver training and support, engineering expertise and a quality technical environment, which enables continuous development, building, testing and race preparation.

Contents

Russian competitions

Formula RUS podium 2005 FormulaRUS-car301.jpg
Formula RUS podium 2005
Dudukalo driving Touring-Light Ford Fiesta at Moscow City Racing 2008 show Dudukalo 2008.jpg
Dudukalo driving Touring-Light Ford Fiesta at Moscow City Racing 2008 show

The team was created in 1997 to participate in the Russian Formula 3 and Tourism-1600 championships. With a European level of organisation and sponsorship from the Lukoil oil company, the team became the main force in the Russian autosport arena. Unfortunately though both series have now ended. Lukoil Racing won 5 of 6 team titles in Russian F3 and 6 of 7 team titles in Supertourism in the seasons it participated in.

In 2003 Lukoil Racing created a junior team for Formula RUS. The team won the title three years in a row, but at the end of 2005 season decided to leave series.

Lukoil Racing easily won drivers and team titles of the Finnish Formula 3 Championship in 2003. In Touring Car racing the team chose to compete in the Honda Civic Cup where it won both titles 3 years in row. Lukoil went back with ArtLine in the Russian Formula 1600 in 2004 and won 3 team titles in a row, but only one drivers title in 2004.

From 2008 Lukoil decide to concentrate only on the RTСC Touring-Light class. The team received Ford Russia manufacturer support and won both the drivers and team titles 4 years in a row. At the end of 2011, the Touring-Light cars were sold. Lukoil Racing went to the RTCC Touring class with manufacturer support of Lada Sport.

WTCC

2009-2011

In 2009 Lukoil's driver Aleksey Dudukalo started to participate in the SEAT León Eurocup with the Sunred team. The year after the Eurocup was folded and Lukoil decided to support Dudukalo and Sunred in the 2011 WTCC season.

2012

Tarquini and Dudukalo at 2012 Race of Japan Gabriele Tarquini 2012 WTCC Race of Japan (Qualify 2).jpg
Tarquini and Dudukalo at 2012 Race of Japan

On 18 January Lukoil announced that it had decided to participate in the 2012 WTCC season, running its own team with Gabriele Tarquini and Aleksey Dudukalo as drivers. [1] Tarquini won 1 race and finished 4th in the championship. The team won the Yokohama Teams' Trophy. [2]

2013

In 2013 Lukoil Racing became a manufacturer team supported by Lada Sport. [3] The first seat was taken by Lada's driver James Thompson. Dudukalo was replaced with Mikhail Kozlovskiy after a crash during Round 1 qualification.

Sponsorship

Formula 3000

Viktor Maslov in the Arden garage, 2001 Viktor Maslov - Lukoil - 2001 - 1.jpg
Viktor Maslov in the Arden garage, 2001

At the end of 1998 Lukoil Racing decided to participate in the International Formula 3000 Championship with its own team, including current Russian F3 drivers Alberto Pedemonte and Viktor Maslov. But Lukoil was late with 1999 season participation request and bought Christian Horner's Arden International team. The team was renamed to Lukoil Arden Racing and also started to participate in the Italian Formula 3000 series. After scoring no points in 1999 season the team was renamed to Arden Team Russia with Lukoil logotypes being replaced by the inscription РОССИЯ (Russia). In mid-2001 Arden was sold back to Horner.

Drivers support program

Aleshin driving for Carlin Motorsport at the Donington Park round of the 2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season. Mikhail Aleshin 2007 WSBR.jpg
Aleshin driving for Carlin Motorsport at the Donington Park round of the 2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season.
Kvyat during Race 1 of the 2010 Formula BMW Pacific season at Sepang International Circuit. Daniil Kvyat 2010 Formula BMW Malaysia April.jpg
Kvyat during Race 1 of the 2010 Formula BMW Pacific season at Sepang International Circuit.

In 2003 Lukoil Racing decided to create a Drivers support program to promote Russian drivers on the international racing arena. It's Lukoil's arm of the Red Bull Junior Team.

The Program started with Mikhail Aleshin in the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and other young drivers in Formula RUS. Lukoil Racing had its own team in Formula Renault 2000 but later it was just a sponsor for other teams. Sometimes Lukoil drivers were also part of Red Bull Junior Team (Aleshin, Kvyat). From 2006 Lukoil started to support Ukrainian, Finnish and Swedish drivers and later started to support not only young drivers but more experienced drivers.

DriverYearsCurrent series
Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Afanasiev 2003– Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe
Flag of Russia.svg Alexey Dudukalo 2001– RCRS
Flag of Russia.svg Roman Golikov2015- RCRS
Flag of Russia.svg Nikolay Karamyshev 2016- RCRS
Former drivers
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Nick Catsburg 2019 World Touring Car Cup
Flag of Brazil.svg Augusto Farfus 2019 World Touring Car Cup
Flag of France.svg Yvan Muller 2013 WTCC
Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Sirotkin 2011–12
Flag of Sweden.svg Patrik Flodin 2010–11
Flag of Russia.svg Daniil Kvyat 2009–10
Flag of Russia.svg Mikhail Aleshin 2003–09
Flag of Finland.svg Mika Maki 2009
Flag of Ukraine.svg Serhiy Chukanov 2006–08
Flag of Finland.svg Atte Mustonen 2008
Flag of Russia.svg Yuri Baiborodov 2003–05
Flag of Russia.svg Ivan Samarin 2004–05
Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Romashenko 2005

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References

  1. Lukoil Racing Team in WTCC 2012
  2. "WTCC: Роб Хафф и Lukoil Racing Team - чемпионы - сайт За рулем www.zr.ru" . Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  3. O'Leary, Jamie. "Aleksei Dudukalo switches to Lada for 2013 WTCC". Autosport.com. Retrieved 2017-03-25.