Shota Abkhazava
| Shota Abkhazava | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 August 1971 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Racing Driver, Car Engineer, Businessman |
| Parent(s) | Merab Abkhazava, Natalia Abkhazava |
Shota Abkhazava (Russian: 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.
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. 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. 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". 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.
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