Lukoil Racing team is the leading Russian motorsport organization; its operations including management, driver training and support, engineering expertise and a quality technical environment, which enables continuous development, building, testing and race preparation.

Racing team

Team was created in 1997 to participate in Russian Formula 3 and Tourism-1600

Supertourism

Supertourism or Tourism-1600 is a former touring car racing series held in Russia in 1995-2003.-History:Series starts in USSR in 1960s as A-1600. Base cars were VAZ-2101 and Lada Riva. In late 1980s-early 1990s it was the main touring series of USSR with base car Lada Samara...

 championships. With European level of organisation and sponsorship of Lukoil

LUKoil

Lukoil/LUKoil ; ) is Russia's second largest oil company and its second largest producer of oil. In 2009, the company produced 97.615 million tons of oil; ....

 oil company team became the main force in Russian autosport arena. But budget and technology race with ArtLine Engenering

ArtLine Racing

ArtLine Racing is a motorsports team from Russia. It currently operates in the Trophy class of the German Formula Three Championship. It has also taken part in Russian and Finnish Formula Three Championships...

 in F3 and Lada Sport in Supertourism had led to closure of this championships. Lukoil Racing won 5 of 6 team titles in Russian F3 and 6 of 7 team titles in Supertourism in seasons it participated.

In 2003 Lukoil Racing creates junior team for Formula RUS

. Team won all titles three years in a row, but in end of 2005 season decide to leave series.

Lukoil Racing easily won driver's and team's titles of Finnish Formula 3 Championship in 2003. In touring cars racing team chose Honda Civic Cup where won both titles 3 years in row. Lukoil back to competition with ArtLine in Russian Formula 1600 in 2004 and won 3 team's titles in a row, but only one driver's title in 2004.

From 2008 Lukoil decide to concentrate only on RTTC

 Touring-Light class. Team received Ford Russia manufacturer support and won both driver's and team's titles 3 years in a row.

Formula 3000

In the end of 1998 Lukoil Racing decide to participate in International Formula 3000 Championship by own team with current Russian F3 drivers Alberto Pedemonte and Viktor Maslov

Viktor Maslov

Viktor Maslov is a Russian race car driver born on January 16, 1976 in Surgut. Maslov spent six years in top-level karting, debuting in 1989, before competing in the premiere ice racing event Trophy Andros in 1996. In 1996 Maslov also competed in Russian Formula Three...

. But Lukoil was late with 1999 season participation request and bought Christian Horner

Christian Horner

Christian Horner is the team manager of the Red Bull Racing Formula One team, a position he has held since 2005...

's Arden International

Arden International

Arden International is an GP2 Series team, created by Christian Horner.Initially created to raise up Horner's career, and then reliant on sponsorship from Viktor Maslov, the team began to get good results and was the best team of Formula 3000 in its last years, showing new talents to motorsport...

 team. Team was renamed to Lukoil Arden Racing and also starts participate in Italian Formula 3000. After scoring no points in 1999 season team was renamed to Arden Team Russia, Lukoil logotypes was replaced by inscription РОССИЯ (Russia). In mid 2001 Arden was sold back to Horner.

Drivers support program

In 2003 Lukoil Racing decided to create Drivers support program to promote Russian drivers on international racing arena. It's Lukoil's analog of Red Bull Junior Team

Red Bull Junior Team

The Red Bull Junior Team is a program run by the energy drink company Red Bull GmbH in an attempt to identify potential future racing stars in open wheel racing. The similar Red Bull Driver Search, now ended, was an American spinoff of the same idea...

.

Program starst with Mikhail Aleshin

 in Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and other young drivers in Formula RUS. Lukoil Racing had own team in Formula Renault 2000 but later it was just a sponsor for other teams. Sometimes Lukoil drivers were also part of Red Bull Junior Team (Aleshin, Kvyat). From 2006 Lukoil starts to support Ukrainian, Finnish and Swedish drivers.

Driver	Years	Current series
Sergey Afanasiev Sergey Afanasyev (racing driver) Sergey Andreyevich Afanasiev is a Russian racing driver, holder of honour "Master of sports of Russia".-Early career & Formula Renault:Afanasiev began his racing career in 2003 in the Formula RUS. That year saw him take three wins in this series and he took championship title...	2003–	Auto GP
Sergey Sirotkin Sergey Sirotkin (racing driver) Sergey Sirotkin is a professional racing driver from Russia. He is the current champion of the Formula Abarth European Series.-Karting:...	2011–	Formula Abarth Formula Abarth Formula Abarth , is an open wheel racing series based in Italy and Europe . The first season was in 2005.During 2008 and 2009 the main Formula Azzurra category has been known as the Trofeo Alboreto...
Patrik Flodin Patrik Flodin Patrik Flodin is a rally driver from Sweden. Flodin won the Swedish Championship in 2006. In 2009, Flodin contests in the Production World Rally Championship with the URT-team driving a Subaru Impreza...	2010–	PWRC
Matvey Maslov	2010–	Karting
Egor Stupenkov	2010–	Karting
Former drivers
Daniil Kvyat Daniil Kvyat Daniil Kvyat is a Russian auto racing driver. Currently he lives with family at Rome, Italy. He is fluent in four languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Russian.-Karting:Kvyat has been an active kart racer in Russia and Italy...	2009–10
Mikhail Aleshin Mikhail Aleshin -Career:Aleshin competed in karting from 1996 to 2000. Since 2001 he has taken part in various international open wheel series. On April 14, 2007 he became the first Russian driver to win a major international single-seater race when he won the opening round of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series season...	2003–09
Mika Maki Mika Mäki Mika Mäki is a Finnish racing driver.- Career :Mika started in karting, and competed for five years before heading to Germany and its Formula BMW ADAC series in 2005, finishing fourth in the Rookie Cup, and took his first victory at the Norisring...	2009
Sergey Chukanov	2006–08
Atte Mustonen Atte Mustonen Atte Mustonen , is a single-seater motor racing driver.-Motorsport career:Like most aspiring motor racing drivers, Mustonen began his career with karting at the age of 11. By 2002, his talents were becoming evident as he won the ICA Junior Karting Championship in Finland, and successfully defended...	2008
Yuri Baiborodov Yuri Baiborodov Yuri Baiborodov is a Russian racing driver. He raced with the Lukoil Racing Team in the German Formula Renault 2000 and Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup during 2004. He was the 2003 Formula RUS champion.-External links:*...	2003–05
Ivan Samarin Ivan Samarin Ivan Alexeyevich Samarin is an Russian racing driver, holder of the honour of "Master of sports of Russia".-Early career:Samarin competed in karting from 1998 to 2003. He began his formula racing career in the 2004 Formula RUS season, finishing fourth overall in the championship standings...	2004–05
Sergey Romashenko	2005