Andrei Sergeevich Kravchenko (December 3, 1980, Donetsk , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian race car driver , a record holder acting in drag racing discipline. Multiple winner of the Ukrainian Championship in drag [1] . The first in the CIS traveled 402 meters faster than 8 and then 7 seconds [2] [3] .
| Andrey Sergeevich Kravchenko | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | December 3, 1980 (38 years) |
| Place of Birth | Donetsk , USSR , USSR |
| Citizenship | |
| Occupation | Race driver , programmer , entrepreneur |
| Father | Kravchenko, Sergey Dmitrievich |
| Site | facebook.com/topspeedua |
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Race Achievements
Andrey has participated in car racing since the age of 21 in a Skoda Octavia . At 23, Andrew had a Subaru Impreza WRX sports car, [4] with which Andrew began to perform professionally. Later he had many other sports cars which he most often used for races in drag . Now Andrey has TopSpeed ProMod PM100 RWD with more than 3,600 horsepower . Performs in his own TopSpeed team. Holds second place in Europe among all-wheel drive cars installed on the Nissan Skyline R32 AWD with a time of 7.437 seconds [5] established in England, on the SantaPod track [6] . In 2014 , in the RDRC championship, it takes the 1st place at the 4th stage in Grodno [7] and the 1st place at the 5th stage in Evpatoria, in the same championship in 2015 it takes the 1st place at the 5th stage in Grozny [ 8] [9] [10] . Currently, Andrew stands for his team “TopSpeed” on the Topspeed Promod PM100 car on which he set his personal record as well as the CIS record having driven 402 meters in 6.115 seconds at a speed of 367 km / h [11] .
Short biography
Andrey Kravchenko was born on December 3, 1980 in Donetsk, in the family of football player Sergey Kravchenko , and was the eldest son in the family, Kravchenko ’s younger brother , Sergey Sergeyevich followed in his father’s footsteps and became a football player, played for Dynamo Kyiv , where he was in Poltava team captain.
Andrew, in the period from 1997 to 2002 , studied at the American University Vincennes University at the faculty of Computer Programming , where he began his programming career creating websites for Russian-speaking users. Also, returning to his homeland, Andrew received his education at the KNU at the law and economics department. Currently living in Kiev [12] .
Career
The first work of Andrey was the development of entertainment websites for the Russian-language Internet , even during his studies he created quite successful websites [13] [14] which were among the top 3 entertainment websites of Runet , and competed with anecdot.ru (overtaking it). After working with the project fomenko.ru, he worked at Mail.Ru as a top manager of entertainment projects. Done the site to the mayor of Donetsk, Lukyanchenko Alexander , as well as other sites for the city administration.
On October 21, 2005, he founded the company TopSpeed, which sells parts for car tuning and tuning racing and sports cars [15] . Knowledge of motor racing help Andrew in understanding what and how to sell on the market of automobile tuning. In the same year he founded a sports team called “TopSpeed” to participate in the race for acceleration. The company still continues to work and develop, remaining the most popular in the CIS, thanks to the sports team and its records.
Notes
- ↑ Andrey Kravchenko surprised by a new record! | News . fau.ua. The appeal date is April 1, 2019.
- ↑ Andrei Kravchenko . rdrc.ru. The appeal date is April 1, 2019.
- ↑ Our TopSpeed PM100 promo has updated its record of CIS and V.Europe.
- Top TopSpeed pilot Andrey Kravchenko: “I want to drive 402 meters on all-wheel drive for 6.99 seconds.” | Clubturbo (rus.) (Neopr.) ? . The appeal date is April 1, 2019.
- ↑ Nissan Skyline (Donetsk) Kravchenko Andrey - 7.437 sec. . dragsng.ru. The appeal date is April 1, 2019.
- ↑ Andrej Kravchenko on European Drag Racing Database . www.drdb.eu. The appeal date is April 1, 2019.
- ↑ Gleb Kn. Andrey Kravchenko | TopSpeed.UA (EEDS at the airport of Grodno, June 22, 2013) | Interview UDrive.by Neopr (June 28, 2013). The appeal date is April 3, 2019.
- ↑ Andrei Kravchenko . rdrc.ru. The appeal date is April 1, 2019.
- ↑ The Russian drag racing championship ended in Grozny . Rambler / sport. The appeal date is April 3, 2019.
- ↑ Race to the fortress . Soviet sport. The appeal date is April 3, 2019.
- ↑ A new record by Andrey Kravchenko . topspeed.ua . topspeed.ua. The appeal date is April 1, 2019.
- ↑ facebook.com/topspeedua
- ↑ Fomenko.Ru - Entertaining site of the 21st Century . archive.li (November 27, 1999). The appeal date is April 3, 2019.
- ↑ Website created by Andrey Kravchenko Fomenko.Ru - http://fomenko.ru/ . subscribe.ru. The appeal date is April 1, 2019.
- ↑ http://topspeed.ua/content/about/