Red ring, attempt number two. — Toyota Sprinter Trueno, 1.6 liter, 1997

Well, I slept a little, my emotions subsided, I need to write a report.)
It was necessary to go to the third stage of Time Attack 2010, I prepared and waited for it. We decided to start on the 2nd early in the morning in three cars: I, Ilya Rider_race on a Civic and AutoDen on a DC-5 turbo integrator. But on the evening of the 1st, my whole trip was almost covered with a copper basin. On the way home from work, my power steering belt is torn ... Evening, heavy rain, first thoughts - well, the trip was covered - however, after calling a dozen stores, I find the necessary belts (at the same time we decided to change the alternator belt), I arrive at the store just a couple of minutes before closures and buy belts. Then we change everything, the time is ten in the evening, and we also need to put new tires on the disks. I’m going to not the best tire fitting shop because good centers don’t work around the clock (I fill up a full tank of food, load the car with everything I need, pack my things home and sleep.
We gather at 5 am and start. Again a filthy road to Mariinsk ...

Still, I caught a hole, as a result, the counterweight of the engine cushion was torn off, plus it got on a new power steering belt, fortunately they noticed it in time and did not allow the belt to be rubbed, plus a muffler knocked out the campaign, but we’ll pick it up and see it one of these days.

Then we drive without incident, in Mariinsk we meet an auto transporter with a Chekhov's eight and a sky total race, which are being taken to the Russian Cup in drag, which also takes place at the KK on July 3-4.

By lunchtime we arrive in Krasnoyarsk, check into our favorite bed bug not far from the ring))) and forward to the track. There I change shoes and ride sessions. As a result, I skated two (. The result was already noticeably better than the last time). But with the Integra, there were some minor problems with the outflow of fuel, but we will fix this problem and it will still arrive at the ring.
On Saturday morning Slava pulled himself up on DC-2. Plus, the red Speck C and the 6th Evik TME also participated from Tomsk.

We got up early and went to the ring to prepare for qualifying. This time there were training sessions. The track configuration was slightly different from the one in May. The participants also gathered more than at the first stage, two evil eights were brought from Novosib by car transporter, which, however, did not live up to expectations, plus several Civics with D15 and B16, a Trueno from Abakan, Artem on a Corolla from Irkutsk, and many locals. In training, I drove 1.13 than I was dissatisfied. I'm going and leaving for the qual. I’m frying for all the money, since now the oil didn’t get so hot, despite the fact that it was noticeably hotter than in May, either it was affected by the fact that I removed the number that closed the cooler, or that instead of Motul this time I poured Agip . The brakes were also in reserve. As a result, I fry the whole quala without cooling down with each lap trying to go faster. On the penultimate lap, I overdo it with speed in the chicane and fly into the grass, fortunately without consequences, on the next lap I also skid a little in the chicane, but I manage to catch the car and not get out. As a result, I pass 1.10.755. This turns out to be the sixth time, which means I am qualifying, and the gap between the 4th and 6th time turned out to be only one ten: Abakan trun — 1.10.680 like, Ilya on a Civic —1.10.725 , well, I - 1.10.755. The best time at the infernal Witz, 1.06 with something there, the second Artem 1.07.1, the third Krasnoyarsk Trueno 1.07.3 with powerful sponsorship and serious preparation.

The local left-handed Civic with b16 and Corolla with 5A also went to the final. In the atmospheric class, Slava qualified on the integral, though only with the seventh time, but there all 8 people arrived at 2-3 tenths, very tight. Our Evik was qualified in the turbo stock, and Speck C showed up in the turbo stock and GT-350 and qualified in both classes. We go to rest and sleep.
On Sunday at 10 o'clock the drag quali starts, the TA should start at 16.00, but because of the rain, the drag races are constantly interrupted. An agonizing wait, and by eight in the evening the drag still ends and TA begins.
I'm riding with a black "sponsored" trunk. My only chance is to try to win the start and close it in the first corner. But Madame, giving the go-ahead to the campaign, had absolutely no idea how it was done. As a result, the start from idle was already losing a couple of lengths by the first turn and the only hope for an opponent’s mistake, but he didn’t give me this chance. Ilya rides with the Abakan trunn, leads by a wide margin, but passes the turn into a small circle, everything is also over for him. But Artem from Irkutsk gave a real show in the semi-final and final. In the semi-finals, he goes around the black trunk with a lead, and in the final he also goes around the Witz, something indescribable was happening on the stands at that moment.
In the atmospheric class, Slava got into DC-2 with K20 under the hood, but Slava took advantage of the opponent's mistake and reached the semi-finals, where, unfortunately, he made a mistake and lost to the Krasnoyarsk DC-5, but in the race for third place he drove around the Witz, which entered the two classes and, as a result, Tomsk has a bedside table.
Max on Speck C and in turbostock and GT-350 reaches the semi-finals, but in the end, only two disappointing fourth places.
In the GT-350 and GT-500, there was an exciting fight between Lobanov on the 6th Evo TME, first with the Irkutsk Subaru, and then with Gocha on the Silvia, as a result, two first places and a super spectacular fight at dusk.
TA ended only at 11 o'clock. I have to go to work on Monday at seven in the morning, but then Dan closes the tegra with the keys inside, we open the car, many thanks for helping the orgs. We start home at midnight. On the way, I struggle with sleep, singing Bon Jovi at the top of my voice, my voice broke))) We arrived without incident, just in time for work))) By Monday afternoon, I just collapsed and fell asleep at the table at work))).
Despite the terrible fatigue, surprises from the weather, the loss in the playoffs, there were a lot of positive impressions. I will try to get to the stage on the 17th-18th, there will be real chances to climb on the bedside table, because. while many are not going to go.
PySy: There are a lot of photos, I will post them in a separate post.)

Bonus: Filmed a video from the carousel ride.