DTM on Moscow Streets ?!

[Igorionia]

Today, on Sport News Heard about DTM Championship.
And MAYBE(!) one race will be on Moscow Streets YEAH! not circuit, not track, On the Street! :lol: :shock:
near Moscow University (big building on the photo), here it is:
http://img13.exs.cx/img13/1214/200412180327kt.jpg
In the list of races( on official DTM Championship site) all can see official Date of Race June 24-25!!!! Such an event ;) *me wanna* :lol:

Cars and Kremlin ;)
http://img13.exs.cx/img13/8596/200412180408jk.jpg
http://img13.exs.cx/img13/2599/200412180398xn.jpg
Moscow streets
http://img13.exs.cx/img13/1126/200412180196dd.jpg
http://img13.exs.cx/img13/6923/200412180261hi.jpg
http://img13.exs.cx/img13/6049/200412180282nc.jpg
http://img13.exs.cx/img13/9696/200412180386pj.jpg
Kremlin
http://img13.exs.cx/img13/8344/200412180174xk.jpg
full article there:
:arrow: http://www.dtm.de/newsausgabe.de.php?id=2364 (German)
:arrow: http://www.dtm.de/newsausgabe.en.php?id=2365 (English)
full picture gallery you can find there : :arrow: http://www.dtm.de/fotoalbum.de.php?id=115

[noosee]

Fotki kuda-to propali :)
A tak to ja bi lucse kuda nibud v Germaniju posmotret sjezdil a ne v Moskvu.
Vzorvut ze :lol:

[Igorionia]

Fotki kuda-to propali :)
A tak to ja bi lucse kuda nibud v Germaniju posmotret sjezdil a ne v Moskvu.
Vzorvut ze :lol:
noosee a kstati est' ideja letom poehat' na Hungaroring (prosto prokatitsia) i... tam zhe Formula 1 budit
Ili prosto trip na Nurnburgring sdelat', konechno shto bi proehatsia po kol'cu ( no poka eto prosto idei na leto) ;)

*FIXED* plus you got links to article and gallery (full) :wink:
enjoy

[Igorionia]

http://img13.exs.cx/img13/1126/200412180196dd.jpg
THAT'S NOT (!) Russian pit-stop :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[ikon2003]

wow, nice pics - that's something i've never seen : DTM cars on the road. Those cars really look very good - so aggressively designed. and some nice pics of moscow too.

[Sm@ck]

my girlfriend studies there. Maybe a good time to visit her again :D

[SFDMALEX]

That would be cool, but the pictures of Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennogo always disturb me...knowing the history behind them.


DTM would be cool. But F1 would be even better....considering the wide streets we might actually see some passing........SIlverstone, the Russian version lol.

[findleybeast]

Seeing DTM racers power through your own city would be so damn sweet. That'll definitely be a very picturesque race. How well are the cars going to cope with the brick streets?

[Igorionia]

In the list of races( on official DTM Championship site) all can see official Date of Race June 24-25!!!! Such an event ;)

[ikon2003]

^ - ^ wow, that's quite a pic. what a sight that would be. i'd really like more urban/street racing - set it up, and ppl can watch from office buildings, restaurants etc... i think it could really make the sport grow.

[SilviaEvo]

^^that would make it like 2F2F or NFSU2 or something. and it would be sort of dangerous i mean an old lady not knowing walking across the street. out of no where a 500hp DTM beast comes charging not around her but through her :lol: :lol: :lol:

[findleybeast]

^^that would make it like 2F2F or NFSU2 or something. and it would be sort of dangerous i mean an old lady not knowing walking across the street. out of no where a 500hp DTM beast comes charging not around her but through her :lol: :lol: :lol:

that would be so entertaining... just like NASCAR with turns! :wink:

[ikon2003]

oh, no, i mean like set up proper like and all.... a la Monaco F1 style. sponsorship etc.

(btw, i'm really annoyed how vodafone gets to sponsor alll the cars in dtm... it kinda makes me hate adverts. it's like no matter who wins, it's a vodafone car! i prefer individual sponsors.... competition between sponsors is cool too...ie: HP goes on BMW, Dell goes on some other car, so it's not just car vs car, but company vs company... just makes for more competition... slightly off topic, but i think it would make racing better. esp DTM in this case"

[DTM8]

Assuming that everything will go as planned, the DTM urban race over there would be great considering that streets are wide.

[findleybeast]

are all the roads around there brick? or just the area used for the photoshoot? Brick would make a very interesting surface to race on...

[ikon2003]

^not sure. i'm guessing that there's asphalt around a lot too.

a lot of euro cities use cobblestone - now THAT would be really interesting too.

[lev_p]

It's not the first time there will be a race. There have been already several international races (not sure if F1 was there, although both sides wanted to). F3000 have been there a few times, and national league uses this places a couple of times a year for one of the stages. If I'm not mistaken, DTM visited there about 5 years ago...
BTW, it's The Place in Moscow for meetings about anything with engine. Everyone is there: bikers, off-roaders, street racers, drag racers, car clubs. Everyone....

[FordGTGuy]

St. Basils Circle yummmm you can eat that track all up.

[lev_p]

BTW, it's now more or less official that there will be DTM race in Moscow. It's already in DTM calendar instead of the Czech race, but there are still papers to be signed.
The streets in the university area are all asphalt.