Publicat in: June 14, 2008, Vizualizari: 41
Production Car driver 17 year old Evgeny Novikov started the 2008 Rally Argentina as the youngest driver ever registered for a world rally championship series. Russian's latest rally legend started when father Maxim crashed his Porsche Turbo when driving back home. The story goes that a lady safe-driving instructor introduced him to Alexei Vasiliev, a Russian rally champion, and from then on the die was cast. So Maxim's son Evgeny has the sport in the blood, entering "Mini Buggy" events when he was eight and karting two years later. In 2003, when he was 13, he took up codriving for his father on national events.
In April 2006 father entered a rally in the south of Russia, the Gukovo Rally but was ill and could not start. Fast talking arrangements were made, and on condition his new codriver took the wheel on the road sections, 15 year old Evgeny was allowed to drive the stages. He won the event. He went on to finish eighth in the national rally series that year. Evgeny turned seventeen on September 19th, 2007 and an entry was made for the forthcoming world championship Wales Rally GB. He entered a Subaru but turned up with a Mitsubishi. At the end of the second day he was lying second-best non PWRC driver behind Martin Prokop, but then he went off the road on the final morning .
Agreeing to contest the 2008 PCWRC was not a straightforward exercise, however. Of the eight rounds in the PCWRC calendar it was only permitted for seventeen year old drivers to drive in six countries, just the number necessary to quality or the series. Countries like New Zealand and Britain allow 17 year old drivers on the roads, others agreed to honour the licence issued by foreign countries, Sweden and Finland refused. Life in the sport's fast lane this year still has to be fitted into his education programme studying Economics in Moscow.
From the 3 rounds in which he started (Argentina, Greece and Turkey) he managed to finish on 16th place in the PWRC in the Acropolis Rally after winning a special stage. Despite his numerous supporters he retired in Turkey in the first proper special stage going off the road in the same place as his fellow countryman Evgeny Aksakov.
3mmm reporting from Kemer
Photo: Evgeny with father Maxim and mother Olga
Production Car driver 17 year old Evgeny Novikov started the 2008 Rally Argentina as the youngest driver ever registered for a world rally championship series. Russian's latest rally legend started when father Maxim crashed his Porsche Turbo when driving back home. The story goes that a lady safe-driving instructor introduced him to Alexei Vasiliev, a Russian rally champion, and from then on the die was cast. So Maxim's son Evgeny has the sport in the blood, entering "Mini Buggy" events when he was eight and karting two years later. In 2003, when he was 13, he took up codriving for his father on national events.
In April 2006 father entered a rally in the south of Russia, the Gukovo Rally but was ill and could not start. Fast talking arrangements were made, and on condition his new codriver took the wheel on the road sections, 15 year old Evgeny was allowed to drive the stages. He won the event. He went on to finish eighth in the national rally series that year. Evgeny turned seventeen on September 19th, 2007 and an entry was made for the forthcoming world championship Wales Rally GB. He entered a Subaru but turned up with a Mitsubishi. At the end of the second day he was lying second-best non PWRC driver behind Martin Prokop, but then he went off the road on the final morning .
Agreeing to contest the 2008 PCWRC was not a straightforward exercise, however. Of the eight rounds in the PCWRC calendar it was only permitted for seventeen year old drivers to drive in six countries, just the number necessary to quality or the series. Countries like New Zealand and Britain allow 17 year old drivers on the roads, others agreed to honour the licence issued by foreign countries, Sweden and Finland refused. Life in the sport's fast lane this year still has to be fitted into his education programme studying Economics in Moscow.
From the 3 rounds in which he started (Argentina, Greece and Turkey) he managed to finish on 16th place in the PWRC in the Acropolis Rally after winning a special stage. Despite his numerous supporters he retired in Turkey in the first proper special stage going off the road in the same place as his fellow countryman Evgeny Aksakov.
3mmm reporting from Kemer
Photo: Evgeny with father Maxim and mother Olga
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