Car races are very popular in Western countries.Manufacturers traditionally invest part of their profits in order to demonstrate its technological capabilities, and the prizes are the best advertising brands.
Such professions as designer of fast cars in the USSR did not exist.Need for such a spectacular event was not the mass consumer was kept in cramped conditions.When the cars were sold freely, the population did not have the money, and as soon as the necessary funds on the part of the people appeared, disappeared somewhere machines, despite the constant increase in their production.And yet, they were enthusiastic.
first record car Agitova
Eugene Agita, the first designer of fast cars in the USSR, decided to create a car that, no less, would be able to break the record.Gorky Automobile Plant Design Bureau in 1938 was led by Andrei Lipgart he strongly supported this initiative.As a result of the hard work of two talented engineers were born a miracle, called a record car as the race to organize did not make sense in the absence of worthy opponents.The official index of GAZ-GL1 stand for "Racing Liphart."Agit did not mind.
basis for the creation of the car served as a commercially produced "Emka" GAZ-M1, but with significant design changes.Initially, the engine boosted by adding 15 "horses" by increasing the working volume, and then it was replaced with a more powerful, stosilny.Externally, the car was quite different, she reminded her aerodynamic fuselage.The rate reached almost 168 km / h, which is, of course, it was a good result, but not the record.In 1940, the GL-1 was dismantled in the hope to do something better, but soon the war began, and it was not up to the sport.
Our "Star" Peltzer - the fastest!
after his victory in the Soviet Union began to receive trophies, including samples of the former enemy equipment.This fact successfully used Alexander Peltzer, another designer of high-speed cars.In the Soviet Union on the basis of the engine from a sports motorcycle company DKW car was built "Star".It happened in 1946 created at the time CDB "Glavmotoveloproma", renamed later in the US.German engine later replaced on the domestic, and after five years of "The Star-M-US" set nine world speed records in different categories.This achievement has contributed to the possibility of rapid replacement of the engine on the other, with a volume of 250 to 500 cubic meters.cm. The car accelerated to 215 km / h (350 "cubes").
«Kharkiv" designer Laurent
In the 50s, when the country joined the international avtofederatsiyu FIA, proved Edward Osipovich Lorent, talented designer of high-speed cars.In the USSR and beyond this name became famous in 1960 when he built his own race car "Kharkov-L2" accelerated to 286 km / h to move to the kilometer distance, which to this day is considered to be unsurpassed achievement.
son Laurent Valeri, also designer of cars to "L-2" broke several international records and created other samples speed vehicles, such as the "Kharkiv-A3", the first in the USSR "dregster" (class racing cars, start from a place and competing over short distances), and "Kharkiv-L4" (a formula class).
«Golden Age» Soviet cars
sixties and seventies became the "golden age" of the Soviet race cars are being built in the factory.Excellent results are shown in the 1976-1978 years, the car "BPS-Estonia", which ran V. Barkovskii, its constructor.The Soviet Union once again demonstrated to the world its technological capabilities.However, in rare instances ...
