RDS 2025 R1 Moscow Raceway

The summer season of the leading national drift championship – the Russian Drift Series Grand Prix – traditionally starts on April 26–27 at the Moscow Raceway track near Moscow. A month later, on May 24–25, the RDS GP will head to St. Petersburg, where the participants will try out a completely new “reverse” track configuration at the Igora Drive circuit. Then, on June 14–15, drift fans will be treated to smoky battles at the Nizhny Novgorod Ring track – the third stage of the RDS GP will be organized according to the classic scheme with a long, drawn-out arc along the entire spectator stand.

The equator of the season will be met in the capital – the fourth stage of the RDS GP will be held on July 19–20 at the ADM Raceway track in Myachkovo. On August 9–10, the tournament will travel to Krasnoyarsk, the homeland of Russian drift champions, and at the end of the month (August 30–31), it will return to Igora Drive to test the participants on the classic high-speed version of the track.

The 2025 Russian Drift Series Grand Prix Final will be held on September 27–28 at Moscow Raceway’s “reverse” configuration. This configuration is famous for its unpredictability and requires special skills from the pilots.

“Each new season of the Russian Drift Series surpasses the previous one both in the number of participants and the quality of car preparation, and in general in the level of teams, which are growing with experienced mechanical engineers and seriously developing the media component. From year to year, we see powerful debutants in RDS GP and RDS Europe who loudly declare themselves and demonstrate their level of sports training. In the 2025 season, we expect to see even more new faces in the pelotons of both series, interesting engineering projects and, of course, bright and smoky races on the edge of risk, for which our spectators love drifting so much,” said Dmitry Dobrovolsky, head of the Russian Drift Series.