Zeknova Carboniacup will welcome the city of Most for the second time this year. The weather was beautiful during this year's first race, so we hope it will last during the holiday performance at the home Autodrom in Most. The general partner of the season is Panattoni Czech, and the race will bear its name, Panattoni Racing Day.
On Wednesday, July 3rd, Zeknova Carboniacup will be coming to Most, where over 100 riders will be competing, and especially groups A and A+ will be packed to the brim. Admission for spectators to the depot or the stands will again be free.
In group A1.3, apart from home Petr Zelenka with his Suzuki Swift, German Renne Büchold will drive a Lada Samara 2108, Pavel Oršula with a Škoda 130L or Kiwatt and Reich with Ladovkas. Up to 1600 cc in A1, Ivan Dobřanský with a Škoda 130RS, Petr Brousek with a Mini Cooper, Jiří Mika with a Citroen Saxo, Petr Jeník with a Škoda 100, or also Jiří Čížek with a Felicia will fight for points in Most. In two-liter A2, Pavel Zeman with a Mazda RX8, Jiří Zeman with a Honda Civic Type-R, Ivan Prantner with an Audi A3 or newcomer Matěj Chabr with a Mazda RX8 will arrive. In the three-liter cars, we will see the regulars Walter Foster and Olaf Haeusner from Germany with BMW M3 cars, Hungarian Ivan Ivanov with a BMW 330Ci, Michal Adensam with a BMW E36, and Miroslav Látr with a BMW 130. Günter Stubenrauch and Josef Dauerer with a VW Scirocco will also compete in the first race of Group A with more modified two-liter A7s.

The next race this time in group A+ also includes group A4 up to 3500cc where Ladislav Šmucr and Martin Toth drive with BMW M3 GTR, the same car then Austrian Christoph Drauch and Riccardo Müller will bring VW Scirocco. There will also be one lady here, Viktorie Šefrnová with Audi TTS. Over 3500cc A5 will be raced by Tomáš Pavel with Jaguar XJS, Jan Starosta with Mustang GT and Hungarian Ponyiczki with BMW E36. The duel of five Škoda Octavia III RS will be seen in class A6, i.e. drivers Bedřich Prokop, Josef Vágner, David Císař, David Kratochvíl and newcomer Dan Tomaševič. In A8, Ondřej Frič will drive with Lotus Exige against Praga R1, i.e. against Roman Vác, Jiří Ruml and Alex Tlustý, but also Patrik Kirov with Octavia KTCR, Petr Čížek and Vít Smejkal.
The A9 of more modified cars over 3500cc will welcome Tomáš Zabloudil, Pavel Sovička with the Lotus Emir GT4, with the second GT4 then JM Schuttrumpf from France in a BMW M4, ToMi with a KTM GT2, Lukáš Urban with a Corvette Z06, Jan Šefrna with an AMG GT S and three cars will be entered by the Šenkýř Motorsport team - Jan Mareček with a Porsche 991 GT3 CUp and two Lamborghini ST in the hands of Pavel Bouška and Rudolf Runštuk.

Group B hosts the production road cars. Sára Zelenková will drive in B1 with an Alfa Romeo 147. In B2 up to 2000cc, Josef Vejs and Jiří Vaněček will race with a Mazda RX8, Libor Šajner with a Toyota GT86 and Aleš Göllner with a Honda Type R. In 3000cc, we will see Milan Zubatý with a Ford Fiesta, Ondřej Zahradníček with a BMW M3 and Lukáš Šerý with a Fábia RS. In B4, the home team Silvestr Ulmann with a Nissan 350Z and Petr Koutský with a Mazda MX5 will enter. In the over 3500cc category, Pavel Sovička will race with a Lotus Exige 430 Cup, Zdeněk Šimoník with a BMW E82, Jan Vojtko with a BMW M2 and Lukáš Urban with an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
Group C will once again belong to specials and prototypes. In group C1 up to 1400cc we have Markus Ameseder with Markus Hofer from Austria, Swiss Philippe Gerber and German Daniel Hentschel on Performers and Sven Kahnt with Pacemaker. Jiří Švec on the Funyo SP05 Peugeot prototype will compete in group C2 with Jürgen Kapeller on Radical SR3 RS. Group C2+ over 1800cc has Pavel Sovička on the starting line with Lotus 311 Eleven. Group C3 for Caterhams hosts drivers Jakub Kirchner, Marek Bláha and Tomáš Plch in Most. In C5 for KTM X- Bow, Radim Havlík, Sergej Pavlovec and Miroslav Šimon are driving.
Group D will welcome twenty formula single-seaters. In D1 up to 1400cc, German Martin Walther will come with an F-BMW, his German colleague Tom Flemming and Jan Kapr with Gloria C8F. Ingo Weiss will drive an F-Renault 1.6 in D3 against two champions Christian Höffken with an F-ADAC and Miroslav Čulík with a Renault Campus. In D4 up to 2000cc, Honza Rieger, Luboš Škarda and after a longer time also Pavel Machulda with an F-Renault will drive, with Formula F3 cars then Roman Roubíček, Bulgarian Tsvetan Iliev, German Niklas Meisenzahl and Pole Jakub Kanarek. In F4 group D5, Ralf Gläser, Ralf Bürger, Frank Thalmann, Tim Rädlein and Günter Schönfeld from Germany and Austrian Simon Schranz from Renauer Motorsport will drive the Zeknova Carboniacup race.
If you are already on vacation, come to Most to see the Zeknova Carboniacup races on July 3rd. There will be plenty to watch.
text+photo: Vláďa Rožánek and PET, Zeknova Carbonaicup 2024
