Nikolay Karamyshev (born 19 January 1989 in

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) is a Russian

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driver. He has competed in the

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and will make his debut in the

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at the 2013 FIA WTCC Race of Russia.

Racing career

Racing in Russia

Karamyshev started his motorsport career in 2007 in autocross and then continued in rallycross and circuit racing. Since 2008 he drove in

Russian Touring Car Championship The Russian Circuit Racing Series (RCRS) is a national Russian racing series created in 2004. It started with four classes: touring, super-production, touring-light, and national class; and national-junior was added in 2015. Sergey Krylov was t ...

completing 2010 season in second place in Super Production category. He missed 2011 racing season due to wrist injury. In 2012 he advanced to the top category of RTCC called Touring finishing the season in third place. Then he continued his career in european touring car racing. He came back to RCRS for 2016 and 2017. After a long pause Karamyshev resumed his motorsport career in 2022 winning RCRS championship in a lesser Touring Light category. In 2015 and 2016 Karamyshev won traditional Russian Race of Stars.

World Touring Car Championship

Karamyshev joined

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for the inaugural

FIA WTCC Race of Russia The FIA WTCR Race of Russia is a round of the World Touring Car Championship, which was held for the first time in 2013 at the Moscow Raceway until 2016 in Volokolamsk, from the capital, Moscow. The event returned in 2021, but the venue was rel ...

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, replacing

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in the team in a two race deal for both the Race of Russia and the Race of Portugal.

European Touring Car Cup

In 2012-2014 Nikolay participated in

, in

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he was a winner of the Super Production class, and in

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he was a champion of the TC2 Turbo class, by winning 6 of 10 races.

Racing record

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

External links

* 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Kursk Russian racing drivers World Touring Car Championship drivers European Touring Car Cup drivers Campos Racing drivers Russian Circuit Racing Series drivers {{Russia-autoracing-bio-stub TCR Europe Touring Car Series drivers