Moroz-2008 - final race (N-1600)

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Just went home from a hippodrome in Ramenskoe, Moscow province. The last race of 2008 ice track Russian championship attracted 13 participants.

Pre-race standings in Russian championship looked like this:

pos. driver (points total)
1. Kirill Ladygin (188pts)
2. Aleksei Dudukalo (159pts)
3. Dmitriy Bragin (150pts)
4. Vladimir Cherevan (144pts)
5. Arkadiy Pavlovskiy (114pts)
6. Boris Schulmeister (110pts)
7. Anton Markin (103pts)
8. Arkadiy Zharkov (101pts)
9. Ruslan Chirkov (85pts)
10. Sergei Zagumennov (83pts)
11. Mikhail Ilyakov (69pts)
12-13. Alexander Sotnikov (52pts)
12-13. Evgeniy Aksakov (52pts)
14. Aleksei Basov (51pts)
15. Sergei Liubchenko (45pts)
16. Lev Yuditskiy (40pts)
17. Mikhail Kozlovskiy (22pts)
18. Sergei Marochkin (18pts)
19-20. Sergei Krylov (0pts)
19-20. Vladimir Labazov (0pts)

The above results are based on previous two races in N-1600 category (20.01.2008 in Usady, Tatarstan and 03.02.2008 in Ramenskoe, Moscow province).

Alongside with Russian championship a Moscow province governor's prize was established. These results were counted basing on previous 3 races held up on Ramenskoe hippodrome - 27.01.2008 Lada Cup race (which I attended and posted a little info before), 03.02.2008 N-1600 Russian championship race and 17.02.2008 non-championship N-1600 race (Race of Stars - RAF President Cup). A battle for this prize was very close - 6 drivers had strong possibilities for a win. Standings before the race:

pos. driver (point total)
1. Kirill Ladygin (178pts)
2. Boris Schulmeister (175pts)
3. Dmitriy Bragin (171pts)
4. Vladimir Cherevan (141pts)
5. Aleksei Dudukalo (128pts)
6. Andrei Radoshnov (100pts)
7-8. Anton Markin (94pts)
7-8. Alexander Sotnikov (94pts)
9. Arkadiy Zharkov (92pts)
10. Vasiliy Mezentsev (89pts)
11. Sergei Ryabov (80pts)
12. Aleksei Basov (78pts)
13. Kirill Vdovin (73pts)
14. Dmitriy Berngardt (67pts)
15. Arkadiy Pavlovskiy (63pts)
16. Aleksei Ivanov (61pts)
17. Mihail Ilyakov (58pts)
18. Sergei Marochkin (57pts)
19. Vyacheslav Maleev (56pts)
20. Igor Filippov (51pts)
21. Igor Ogulenko (46pts)
22-23. Evgeniy Aksakov (42pts)
22-23. Vladimir Nikolaev (42pts)
24. Vadim Tkachev (38pts)
25-26. Vladimir Labazov (34pts)
25-26. Andrei Nefedov (34pts)
27. Ruslan Chirkov (31pts)
28-30. Lev Yuditskiy (30pts)
28-30. Sergei Zagumennov (30pts)
28-30. Albert Gainullin (30pts)
31. Mikhail Tyagunov (26pts)
32. Nikolai Agapov (25pts)
33. Mikhail Kozlovskiy (22pts)
34. Sergei Liubchenko (11pts)