In 2012 the management of NRing circuit, located near Nizhny Novgorod (ex-Gorkiy, the homeland of Volga cars), initiated their own racing series, called to develop motorsport on the beginners' level, as well as to provide a space for what are now historic cars, Volgas, which raced until several years ago on different levels of competition in Russia, including circuit racing, cross, winter ice track, even rallies. Now, following the idea dropped in by our Baltic neighbours, the Volga class has been built in accordance with USSR technical regulations (at least, as far as I'm aware). That makes this category one of the cheapest classes in Russian motor racing, but at the same time a rather exciting one. Somebody called the Volga class the 'Russian Trans-Am'. Well, if not equally fast, they are still interesting to watch giving a chance to watch an honest competition with rather equal cars, no electronic devices and no team tactics. What they lack so far is a good number of participants on a regular basis (which the awesome Dzintara Aplis played in the Baltic states has), but hopefully that will come soon.
I was there on May, 25, when the first round of 2014 season took place, and that was quite good! I'd definitely try to be there again as soon as possible, hoping for a larger field. Lada class (with a separate subcategory for young drivers called NLS J) was also present, but their pictures will come later - I've collected a decent number of pictures from various events I need to do finally something with
I have uploaded some Volga pictures to my Flickr albums:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/malxalx/sets/72157644873762847/ . Have pleasure watching!
And here are some of Volgas as a preview.
