Stasya Filipov

Stasya Katya Filipov, better known as Stasya Filipov (born January 6th, 1991 in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast, Russia) is a Dash Cup driver currently driving for STS Racing, Inc. She formerly drove for Hannagan Enterprises and posted giant upsets together with former teammate Giséle Vignon.

Beginnings
Stasya begun racing with karts rather late, being 15 years old, she raced with karts until she was 18, when she tried scattered Formula RUS events, but didn't succeded in any of her starts, being 19 she was scouted to Hannagan Enterprises, team owned by the irish former Formula A driver Patrick O'Hannagan, she drove with Hannagan in Touring Cars until 2014, when the team shifted to stock cars, making scattered starts in the 2014 Dash Cup season.

Dash Cup tenure
Filipov's first taste of stock car racing was at the Toddring where she qualified in the back for race 1, but was advancing through the field until she got caught up in a wreck. The same happened to her in the second race.

In France both Filipov and her teammate Giséle Vignon started in the back on races 1 and 2 and Filipov got wrecked on the opening laps of the first race, and finishing in the rear end of the field on race 2, in race 3, she and Vignon would make heroes of themselves, driving the wheels of their cars and finishing in the top 10 after holding up cars much stronger than the Hannagan's Kosovets.

At the prestigious Spa GP she was one of the 5 cars from Hannagan that qualified for the LCQ, but she didn't gone through.

In Russia, Filipov had a bad start in the first running of the race, being involved on the wreck that cancelled the race. In the second attempt to make the weekend, Stasya flipped in Race 1, in race 2 she was quiet, finishing second-to-last. On Race 3, the biggest upset in Dash Cup's history happened, as Stasya started in 2nd, behind Cassandra Collins, but Stasya quickly took the lead, and never looked back in order to win her first Dash Cup race in only her 8th start.

Career Results
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