VAZ 2101 for Eifel Classic 2004
The idea came from Mikhail Gorbachev (not USSR president, of course, but great Soviet race-driver) By the way I don't know whether there're coaches in motorsport like there are coaches in football. But we in USSR had National Racing Team with coaches. And Gorbachev was one of them.
Aleksei Grigoriev. Coach, has degree of Master of the Sport (and Mikhail Gorbachev too), Sport manager of CityMotorsport team. He was charged with a tuning of the car for the race,
The budget for the car was about $15000. The base car of 1971 year cost $450 in very good condition. Even the factory corrosion preventing treatment was maintained. The running was about 80000 km.
For the first runs there was a 1600cm3 engine. But in the race it was used a 1300cm3 engine as it was more reliable.
First test runs and race at ADM with modern cars. 11 overall (25 participants) only because of additional pit-stop.
all images are scanned from Russian 'Autosprot' magazine №9 2004