Supertourism

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Supertourism

Category	Touring cars
Country	Russia
Inaugural season	1995
Folded	2003
Constructors	Ford, IZh, Honda, Lada, Toyota, Suzuki, VW
Last Drivers' champion	Alexey Dudukalo
Last Teams' champion	Lukoil Racing

Supertourism or Tourism-1600 is a former touring car racing series held in Russia in 1995-2003.

History[]

Series starts in USSR in 1960s as A-1600. Base cars were VAZ-2101 and Lada Riva. In late 1980s-early 1990s it was the main touring series of USSR with base car Lada Samara. After USSR dissolution series was abandoned.

In 1995 series was relaunched as Tourism-1600 with status Championship of Russia. Championship regulations was similar Super Touring but with 1600cc engines. In 1999 championship joined Lada and in 2001 IZh manufacturers teams. In 2001 series was renamed to Supertourism. But budget and technical race of leaders reduced number of teams. After 2003 season 2 lead teams (Lada and Lukoil Racing) left championship. Series was closed.

Champions[]

Season	Championship			ASPAS Cup
	Drivers' Champion	Car	Teams' Champion	Drivers' Champion	Car	Teams' Champion
2003	Alexey Dudukalo	Lada 21103	Lukoil Racing	-	-	-
2002	Alberto Scilla	Lada 21103	Lukoil Racing	-	-	-
2001		Lada 21103	Lukoil Racing	-	-	-
2000	Alexey Vasilyev	Honda Civic		-	-	-
1999	Nikolay Mezentsev	Lada 21083	Lukoil Racing	-	-	-
1998		Honda Civic			Lada 21083	Lukoil Racing
1997	Alexey Vasilyev	Lada 21083		Alexey Vasilyev	Lada 21083	Lukoil Racing
1996	Alexey Vasilyev	Lada 21083			Lada 21083
1995		Toyota Corolla			Lada 21083

External links[]

• Lukoil Racing Supertourism history (in Russian)
• Autoreview newspaper archive (in Russian)