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TCR 2018
Just as in 2017, the TCR Russia event
at Moscow Raceway was a happy
hunting ground for Dmitri Bragin who
has extended his lead in the
standings. The TAIF Motorsport driver
claimed two third places over the
weekend, while LADA Sport Rosneft’s
Kirill Ladygin, his closest rival in the
title fight, remained scoreless.
Race victories went to Klim Gavrilov
in the Carville Racing Volkswagen Golf
GTI and Aleksey Dudukalo in the
Lukoil Racing Audi RS3 LMS.
In Race 1, Gavrilov started from pole
position and led the field into Turn 1,
followed by Andrej Maslennikov,
Bragin and Vitaliy Dudin.
As the mid-fielders negotiated T1,
Timur Shigabutdinov’s Audi and
Grigory Burlutskiy’s SEAT made
contact, the former lost control and
was collected by the LADA Vesta cars
of Ladygin and Vladimir Sheshenin,
while Pavel Yashin’s CUPRA spun. Of
the drivers involved, only Yashin and
Ladygin were able to rejoin.
Gavrilov was then in control, with
Maslennikov comfortably in second
position. The fight for third place was
decided at the end of lap 9, when
Dudin tried to overtake Bragin, but
outbraked himself and went off into
the gravel.
Dudukalo then claimed a lights-to-flag
victory in the second race; it was a 1-
2 finish for Lukoil Racing with Ivan
Lukashevich crossing the line in
second place, while Bragin completed
an all-Audi podium.
At the start, Dudukalo and
Lukashevich made good use of their
front row positions to take command;
they were followed by Roman
Golikov’s Volkswagen, Bragin and
Bragin moves
closer to the title
GAVRILOV AND DUDUKALO WIN AT MOSCOW RACEWAY