Viktor Viktorovich Schaitar

Viktor Schaitar 2012

Viktor Viktorovich Schaitar ( Russian Виктор Викторович Шайтар , English transcription Victor Shaitar ; born February 13, 1983 in Moscow ) is a Russian racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Viktor Schaitar began his career in the Russian monoposto sport . In 2002 he won the overall ranking of the Russian Formula 1600 Championship . Until 2007, when he was runner-up, he remained a participant in this championship. In 2008 he switched to Formula 3 and competed in the Russian and Finnish championships. Until 2012 he competed in monopostor races, including in Georgia .

The successful change in GT and sports car racing followed in 2013 . The overall victory in the GTC class of the European Le Mans Series in 2013 was followed by victory in the GTE class of this series in 2014 . He celebrated his greatest success so far in the FIA World Endurance Championship , where he won the final of the LMGTE standings in 2015 . He was also able to win these racing classes at the 2015 Le Mans 24-hour race . There he benefited from the late failure of Paul Dalla Lana, who had been leading for a long time, in the Aston Martin Vantage GTE .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2014	SMP Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Andrea Bertolini	Aleksey Basov	failure	accident
2015	SMP Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Andrea Bertolini	Aleksey Basov	Rank 20 and class win
2016	SMP Racing	BR Engineering BR1	Vitaly Petrov	Kirill Ladygin	Rank 7
2017	SMP Racing	Dallara P217	Mikhail Aleshin	Sergei Sirotkin	Rank 33
2018	SMP Racing	Dallara P217	Harrison Newey	Norman Nato	Rank 14

Web links

• Wiktor Schaitar in the Driver Database
• Wiktor Schaitar at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ Russian Formula 1600 Championship
2. ^ Russian Formula 1600 Championship 2007
3. ↑ FIA Endurance Championship 2015