Dacia Logan Cup

The Dacia Logan Cup is a One-make racing lowcost series created and managed by Renault Sport. It uses Dacia Logan cars and takes place in Germany, France, Romania and Russia.

Dacia Logan Cup
CategoryOne-make racing by Dacia/Renault
Inaugural season2007
ConstructorsDacia, Renault
Official websiteCupaDacia.ro logan-cup.com

The purpose of the series is to make motorsports accessible with an as low as possible operating cost.

The cars

The Dacia Logan Cup car is based on the road-going version of the 1.6 8V 90 hp Dacia Logan (Renault Logan in Russia) with an added kit prepared by Renault Sport Technologies.[1] There are two different racing kits : circuit racing and rallying (tarmac or gravel). The kits contain safety equipment, parts designed to improve reliability and performance, and design features. The main components of the cars are those of the Dacia Logan to ensure low cost and easy procurement.[2]

  • Chassis :
steel monocoque with bolted roll cage
aerodynamic features: Rear spoiler (circuit version)
  • Engine
layout: Front transversely mounted
type: K7M, 4 cylinder, 8 valve, 1598cc
bore x stroke: 79.5 x 80.5mm
fuel injection: Multipoint
maximum power: 64kW (90bhp) at 5500rpm
maximum torque: 128Nm at 3000rpm

The group N Dacia Logan competing in the Romanian Rally Championship have a maximum power of 95bhp/5500 rpm and a maximum torque of 145 Nm/3000 rpm.[3]

  • Transmission
type: Traction
gearbox: Ricardo JH3 5 speeds gearbox + reverse gear, option - gearbox with short gears and main gear 4.5
gearshift: classic H-pattern
clutch: 200mm single disc
differential: free
  • Suspension
front: MacPherson strut-like suspension system with triangular wishbone, Bilstein Shock Absorbers and specific springs
rear: H-shaped axle with torsion-beam suspension and programmed deflection, Bilstein shock absorbers and specific helicoid springs
  • Brakes
front: 259mm solid discs
rear: 8” drum brakes
wheels: 6x15” standard steel or Toora Competizione aluminium wheels (circuit), 14” (rally)
  • Dimensions
length: 4247mm
overall width: 1740mm
height: 1534mm
wheelbase: 2630mm
front - rear track: 1466-1456mm
cx: 0.36
fuel tank: 50 litres
weight (unladen): 1030kg (rally versions)

Championships

The Logan Cup car can be entered in open rallies Group N or open circuit motorsport events. Renault and Dacia organize One-make racing championships in various countries where the Logan is available for sale.

The Dacia Logan Cup has been held in Romania as Cupa Dacia Logan JOE[4] in 2007. In 2008, the name was changed to Cupa Dacia Ursus and since 2009 it was known as Cupa Dacia.[5] It was managed from the beginning by Mach1sport-management and since 2010 the competition was sponsorised by Policolor's "Klar Professional". Cupa Dacia is very popular, with fierce competition, as it is part of the Romanian National Rally Championship (CNR) and is affiliated to FRAS (Romanian Federation of Sport Automotive).

ADAC has been organizing the Cup in Germany since 2006 as the ADAC Dacia Logan Clubsport.[6] This championship rewards not the best driver but the best amateur team.

In France, the Coupe Logan Rallycross was organised by FFSA in 2008[7] as a rallycross series.

In Russia, the Renault Logan Cup[8] rally series is supported by local Renault representatives - OAO Avtoframos, which manufacture Logans at a plant in Moscow. Held since 2008, Renault Logan Cup was private at first, sponsored by AGA autocosmetics. The race calendar consists of 9 races: 4 are part of the Russian Rally Championship, 4 in budget-minded Club Rally Cup, and one final race. Championship events usually attract no more than 5 Logans, as they are expensive. Club Rally evens are twice as popular, and there have been approximately 25 cars built (total) by the end of 2009.

The grand prize of the Russian Renault Logan Cup is free participation in the top winter oval racing (named trek) - Star Race by Za Rylem magazine, which is held each February.

Champions
Season Cupa Dacia[9][10][11] ADAC Clubsport[12] Coupe Rallycross [7][13] Logan Endurance Cup [14] Renault Logan Cup (Rally)[15]
2006 Hochrhein Racing Team
2007 Cristian Turbatu
Silviu Stefanescu		 ADAC Nieders.
Sachs.-Anhalt I
2008 Edwin Keleti
Victor Ponta		 Ahrens Racing Team Roman Ferrero Team Erbi
Einar Thorsen
Piet Kroon
Mike van der Vecht		 Michael Skripnikov
Anton Grechko
2009 Vlad Cosma
Florin Dorca		 ADAC HTH
GTO Motorsport II		 David Olivier Racing Care
Cristel Knopper
Laurens de Wit
Tom Verhoeven		 Michael Skripnikov
Anton Grechko
2010 Viorel Ivan
Gheorghe Dumitru		 ADAC Niedersachsen
Sachsen-Anhalt		 David Olivier Vladimir Kabanov
Paul Chelebaev
2011 Bogdan Nastase
Alexandru Popidan		 MSC Oldenburg I Alexey Ignatov
Jaroslav Fedorov
2012 Bogdan Barbu
Vraja Doru		 ADAC Team Hansa Oleg Myslevich
Medvedev Ekaterina
2013 Raul Badiu
Razvan Hulea		 ATT-Racing Sergey Alekseev
Alexander Vasiliev
2014 Barbu Bogdan
Paler Petru		 Pronghorn-Racing
2015 Bogdan Talașman
Andrei Mitrașcă		 H.A.R.D Speed Motorsport
2016 Raul Badiu
Gabriel Lazăr
2017 Mihnea Mureșan
Andrei Hicea
2018 Mihnea Mureșan
Bogdan Iancu
2019 Cristian Sugar
Vlad Colceriu

See also

Championships :

References
  1. Logan Cup, the concept Archived 2007-10-24 at the Wayback Machine logan-cup.com
  3. http://cupadacia.ro/
  4. Point et à la ligne Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine daciagroup.com
  5. Cupa Dacia cupadacia.ro
  6. ADAC Dacia Logan Clubsport dacia-clubsport.com
  7. Coupe Logan Rallycross 2008 rallycross.free.fr
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-08-24. Retrieved 2014-01-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. http://cupadacia.ro
  11. http://www.autorally.ro/ranking/ranking.php?c=1&co=CNR
  12. ADAC Dacia Logan Clubsport, Ergebnisse dacia-clubsport.com
  14. Archived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine loganendurancecup.nl/
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