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Shota Abkhazava ((ロシア語:Шота Абхазава), born 12 August 1971) is a racing driver, race cars designer, a businessman, an owner of two race circuits in Russia and Georgia. ==Racing== In 1993 Abkhazava graduated from the Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University (MADI) trained as race cars engineer. While studying, he was involved into the "Astrada" and "Gardarika" single seater projects. He worked in the MADI Laboratory of Sport Cars, a famous Soviet and Russian car design bureau. In 1998 he established his first race cars design company and a team named "Pilot F3 Engineering". In 1999 the team competed in the very front in the Formula Three Championship of Russia, with Italian driver Fabio Babini at the wheel of the most up-to-date Formula 3 car "Dallara F399".〔 A year after, the team has changed its name to "ArtLine Engineering", and in 2001 another Italian pilot, Maurizio Mediani, brought the first Champion's title to ArtLine. In 2003 Abkhazava moulded the team from Formula 3 into the national Formula 1600. After a year he announced that the team is ready to use new chassis of its own design, named ArtTech.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kolesa Magazine. Formula Lada. ArtLine’s line-up is to change )〕 Meanwhile, for the first time he was elected into the Committee for Circuit Racing of the Russian Automobile Federation as a coordinator of the national Formula 1600.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=iLoveRacing.ru )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kolesa Magazine. Shota Abkhazava: "professional motorsport era is coming" )〕 In November 2004 the ArtTech race car was presented to public during "Sport Motor Tuning Exhibition" in Moscow. In 2005 he run one of the first Russian sports marketing seminars, "Sportsmarketing 2005".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=AutoRossport.ru. Report of the "Sports Marketing in Russia" seminar )〕 Managed by Abkhazava, Formula 1600 was top-ranked as "class of the year" by Russian leading motorsports blog "iloveracing.ru".〔 Abkhazava initiated his first race track project "ADM Raceway" at the Miachkovo airfield. On Jule 23, 2006 new circuit hosted the first official competitions. After Neva-Ring circuit in St-Petersburg was destroyed, Miachkovo became the only permanent circuit in the Western part of the country, effectively saving national circuit racing from death.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Za Rulem Magazine, "Wealthy Poverty" )〕 In 2006 Abkhazava argued against Russian Automobile Federation accusing them of deviation from democratic principles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=5th Wheel Russian Auto Portal. Russian Circuit Racing: tough fight )〕 In 2007 he was often invited to be a guest of “Countdown” TV program, a part of Formula One live broadcast to Russia on the RenTV channel. The team won Russian Championship and several laps of the Formula 3 Championship of Finland. In September 2008, for the first time in history, Abkhazava introduced North Europe Formula 3 Cup (NEZ Cup) that was held at the ADM Raceway near Moscow. At the end of the year he brought to Russia new racing class “Legend Cars” 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Novaya Gazeta. Stop dreaming, drive Legend! )〕 which produced in Harrisburg, NC. In December he took part in the Las Vegas Grand Finals of the Legend cars and came 2rd in the Semi-Pro group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=US Legend Cars official website )〕 In 2009 Abkhazava’s team started to compete in the German ATS Formula-3 Cup with its own chassis ArtTech and won Trophy title.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=OpenRacing.ru. Art-Line: starting from the next season, we are going to fight in League A! )〕 Abkhazava went to Georgian market as a businessman 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Commersant’s Ogoniok, Anything rather than war )〕 and sport event organizer. In the meantime he raced in Russian and Georgian Legends competitions and won the both titles. After successful season of 2010, Abkhazava announced that since 2011 the Formula-3 team moves to the most competitive class of the German cup, “League A”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= OpenRacing.ru. Shota Abkhazava: ArtTech will race in the League A of the Cup of Germany )〕 In October, 2011 he came first in Spa in the final stage of EU Legends Championship. In December 2011 Abkhazava proceeded with Rustavi race track reconstruction with $25-million private investments of his own. The track is officially opened in April, 2012,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Messenger.com.ge, Saakashvili opens race track in Rustavi )〕 getting a new name of “Rustavi International Motorpark”. Acting as a president of local motorsport governing body, Georgian AutoSport Association (GASA), within a year he established two new racing series, Legends and Formula Alfa that puts Georgia on the top motorsports level among the Post-Soviet states.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Newspaper Georgia Today. Georgians, start your engines! )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shota Abkhazava」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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