RUS Autosport

RUS Autosport is a Russian racing team founded in late 2009 by business magnate Vitaly Tsolikov. The team currently competes in ARLA, with Lev Azarov and Radomir Stanoytchev driving the #82 Fatherland Vodka/pointclickshipabitch.com car. RUS Autosport also recently opened a Dash Cup effort, with Leonid Chernov driving the #82 Speidel.

Early History
In late 2009, after losing his Formula RUS ride with the Vkontakte.ru Racing Team, Yevgeny Kuznetsov worked out a deal with a connection he had made from his Rallying days, Vitaly Tsolikov, to run a few races in Rallycar. After impressing his new team owner and Tsolikov realizing the talent that he now had, RUS Autosport was founded and announced that they would be buying out the spot that the old Vkontakte.ru Racing Team had in Formula RUS.

Being in one of the best-funded cars on the track, Kuznetsov was finally able to show his true potential. In 2010 he won his first Formula RUS race at the track where he made his debut, at the Volgoring. He won one more race that year at Autodrom Moscow and finished on the podium four more times, accumulating 58 points and finishing 3rd in the championship. During one of the off-weeks, Kuzzie and the RUS Autosport team went to Finland to watch the 2010 Karjala Grand Prix. Amazed by what they saw, Kuznetsov, Vitaly Tsolikov, and the entire RUS Autosport team unanimously vowed that they would enter a car in the following year's race.

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