ARTMAN RACING powered Honda`s success in 2009 worldwide:
30.11.2009
Rally: Artman Racing prepared engines were used in 8 Honda Rally cars (Group N / A). Most successful Artman Racing powered engine customer was Kaspar Koitla (EST - Honda Civic Type R), who has won Estonian and Russian Rally 2WD Championship. Kaspar Koitla also finished astonishing 3rd in IRC 2WD Championship! Kaspar Koitla has been taking part only of 2 IRC 2WD rounds, which he won twice (Russian and Scotland rounds). 2009 IRC (Intercontinental Rally Challenge) 2WD standings: 1st Denis Millet (FRA) 49p. 2nd Manuel Villa (ITALY) 36p 3rd Kaspar Koitla (EST) 20p. Circuit > FIA Super Production: Voja Lekic (Serbia - Honda Civic EP3) has won Serbian Super Production title, winning all the finished races in local championship! B-2000 (Baltic Touringcar Championship) Marcis Birkens (Latvia - Honda Civic EP3) has won Baltic B-2000 Championship. Marcis Birkens also won FIA European Touring Car Cup (ETCC) in Super Production category. This was 3rd ETCC race in a row, were Artman Racing engine customers have been competing and Super Production category has been won by Artman Racing powered Honda engines!!! Artman Racing powered ETCC winners in Super Production category trough years: 2006 Alexander Lvov (RUS) Honda Civic EP3 Estoril – Portugal 2007 Alexey Basov (RUS) Honda Civic EP3 Adria – Italy 2009 Marcis Birkens (LV) Honda Civic EP3 Braga – Portugal RTCC (Russian Touringcar Championship) Oleg Kvitka (RUS - Honda Civic EP3) take part only from opening race in Kursk, were he won 1st round of Kursk city-race. He retired from 2nd race because of accident, even he lead the race in SP category. Dima Kiselev (RUS - Honda Civic EP3) were running AR powered Super Production engine, even he took part of Super 2000 category and was front runner in most of races.
Circuit > FIA Super 2000: RTCC – Russian Touring Car Championship Andrey Smetsky (RUS – Honda Accord) took part only from 3 rounds of Russian Touringcar Championship (RTCC). Round 2- Kursk (city-race), which was Honda Dealer Team Russia first race of the season, was positive and Andrey Smetsky won both races. Round 3- Lipetsk (city-race) Smetsky had pole-position, but was force to finish both races 2nd, were races won with small margin multiple Russian champion Mihhail Uhov (BMW 320) Round 4- Dmitrov (polygon) Smetsky qualified 3rd. By end of lap 1, when he tried to take lead, he had contact with Dima Kiselev (Honda Civic) and after collision retired from race. Sundays Race 2 Andrey finished 2nd behind BMW driver, even he lead most of the race. Driving 2 races less and having one non-finish, Andrey Smetsky finished 3rd in RTCC. Andrey Nikolayev (RUS – Honda Accord) was running second Honda Dealer Team Accord, but he collected points for his own team. Nikolayev take part from all 8th RTCC races, were he collect the valuable points, which gave him 2nd position in RTCC standings. RTCC winner overall winner was Vladimir Streltsenko. Vladimir drove SEAT Leon Cup car (2.0 Turbo), which in normal terms should classify in different category. But in Russia he won 2 of 8th races and he collect points in Super 2000 category. « Tagasi / Back
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