Evgeny Novikov

Yevgeny Maximowitsch Novikov (Russian: Евгений Максимович Новиков, also Evgeniy Novikov, born September 19, 1990 in Moscow ) is a Russian rally driver. In 2009 he drove for the Citroën Junior Team in the World Rally Championship.

Career

At an early age went Novikov in Kart During this time, his father discover rallying for yourself so that Novikov at the age of 13 years was the passenger of his father at local rally events. Two years later he began himself to the rallies and won the 2006 Russian Rally Cup. In 2007 he started at the Rally Wales for the first time in the WRC. The following season, he went six rallies in the P -WRC, which will take place as part of the World Rally Championship. 2009 Novikov from Citroën Junior Team has been contracted and was reported for eight championship races. He had four accidents and came three times out of the points to the finish. Only in the Rally of Italy, he was fifth overall in this year, reaching his first World Cup points. Nevertheless, its average results were not good enough to stay in the Citroën Junior Team in the following season. In 2010, he played no World Rally Championship races. In the World Rally Championship in 2011, he started for the Stobart M- Sport Ford Rally Team so far in five rallies twice he reached the goal. With the twentieth place in the Rally of Greece and the fourteenth place in the Rally of Sardinia, it was for him to get driver's championship points up to the last two rallies of the season, has not yet succeeded. In Catalonia and Wales he reached each the seventh place overall and finished the championship in 17th place.