Vitaliy Pushkar
Vitaliy Pushkar | |
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Nationality | Ukrainian |
Born | Kishineu | May 9, 1987
European Rally Championship career | |
Debut season | 2013 |
Current team | |
Co-driver | Ivan Mishyn |
Starts | 14 |
Championships | 0 (ERC Production – 1) |
Wins | 0 (ERC Production – 1) |
Best finish | 37 (ERC Production – 1) in 2014 |
Previous series | |
2011–2012 | Intercontinental Rally Challenge |
Last updated on: 2014.11.23. |
Vitaliy Pushkar (Ukrainian: Пушкар Віталій Олексійович; born May 9, 1987 in Kishineu, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic – in present-day Moldova) is a Ukrainian rally driver, Ukrainian rally vice-champion, European rally champion in ERC Production Cup category, and The Boar ProRacing team driver.
Career[]
Ukrainian Rally Championship[]
Pushkar began competing at the beginning of 2009 with his childhood friend Ivan Mishyn as a co-driver.[1] Their first car was the all-wheel-drive two-liter turbo Subaru Impreza earlier belonging to .[2]
During that year Pushkar started 11 times in different rallying competitions – and only not finishing once, at the , due to technical problems.
Pushkar changed car to a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX and employed Ukrainian rally champion Oleksandr Saliuk, Jr. as a coach. In May 2010, Pushkar won his first race, the , and finished inside the top ten fastest Ukrainian drivers at the end of the season.
During the two next seasons, Pushkar was among the leaders of the Ukrainian rally championship, finishing the several rallies on the podium. In 2011, he reached the top five of the Ukrainian Rally Championship overall standings for the first time, and became the first and only winner of the Cup of Friendship, organized by the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian Automobile Federations.[3]
The 2013 season was the most successful for Pushkar, now involved in the Ukrainian rally title battle. Winning the and placing third in the made him one of the season favorites. An accident during the weakened his standings. The overall title was decided at the Ivano-Frankivsk , but although Pushkar won that race, he did not take the title, coming second to his fellow driver .[4]
Intercontinental Rally Challenge[]
After 2010, Pushkar increased his number of international starts. He participated in the Latvian and Estonian championships, and in 2012 he took part in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. He won his first international race, the Romanian [5] and finished the season in sixth place in IRC Production. He began to work closely with the Lithuanian ProRacing Team.
European Rally Championship[]
In 2013 Vitaliy Pushkar participated in European Rally Championship for the first time, which had been amalgamated with the IRC in late 2012.[6] He placed fifth in the Production Cup at the 2013 Rally Liepāja-Ventspils; but, after the several accidents and technical retirements he stopped the participating in ERC that year.
He returned to the ERC in 2014. He started the season with an accident at the Jänner Rally,[7] but finished second at the Rally Liepāja–Ventspils and won the Acropolis Rally.[8]
At the end of the season, Pushkar safely finished at the Rallye du Valais and Tour de Corse, and after scoring 167 points became the European Rally Champion among the Production Car drivers.[9]
International results[]
IRC[]
Year | Participant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2012 | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | POR | ESP | IRL | FRA | ITA 23 |
31 |
4 |
CZE | UKR Ret |
ITA 25 |
CYP 20 |
33rd | 12 |
ERC[]
Year | Participant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X | AUT | 12 |
ESP | POR Ret |
FRA | Ret |
Ret |
CZE | POL | CRO | ITA | ITA | 81st | 1 | |
2014 | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X | AUT Ret |
8 |
GRC 13 |
IRL | POR Ret |
16 |
13 |
Ret |
CYP 9 |
ITA 16 |
FRA 17 |
37th | 14 |
ERC Production Cup[]
Year | Participant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X | AUT | 5 |
ESP | POR Ret |
FRA | Ret |
Ret |
CZE | POL | CRO | ITA | ITA | 24th | 25 | |
2014 | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X | AUT Ret |
2 |
GRC 1 |
IRL | POR Ret |
6 |
5 |
Ret |
CYP 4 |
ITA 3 |
FRA 2 |
1st | 167 |
Interesting facts and figures[]
Vitaliy Pushkar is the only driver from the former Soviet Union who has won the title of European Rally Champion.[citation needed]
From 2009 until 2014, Pushkar entered 77 rallies,[10] attaining 19th position in the Ukrainian (drivers who have started in 50 or more rallies).[11]
Pushkar only once started a driver other than Mishyn: on 2010 Shapovalov Rally Cup Oleksandr Saliuk Jr. took Mishyn's place.[12] Interesting, that it happened exactly on Pushkar's birthday, May 9.[13]
The joint Pushkar/Mishyn crew has 76 starts, second only amongst Ukrainian crews to Gorban/Leonov, with 88 joint starts.[14]
Titles and awards[]
References[]
- ^ Иван Мишин: «Это только начало» Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Игорь Чаповский: «Пока я помогаю «наоборот» Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Украинец Виталий Пушкарь победил в Кубке Дружбы по ралли
- ^ "Виталий Пушкарь: "Все прошло идеально"". Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
- ^ Rally Sibiu:Пушкарь бьет рекорды Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Виталий Пушкарь:«Цель – чемпионат Европы» Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jänner Rallye: Без экипажа Виталия Пушкаря... Archived November 14, 2014, at archive.today
- ^ Acropolis Rally:на все воля богов Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Erc 2014: who won what? Archived November 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Vitaliy Pushkar on EWRC
- ^ Наши герои:«Клуб 50» Archived November 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ «Кубок Лиманов»: Кочмар лидирует после СУ2
- ^ Vitaliy Pushkar on EWRC
- ^ Vitaliy Pushkar on EWRC
- 1987 births
- Living people
- European Rally Championship drivers
- Ukrainian rally drivers