Evgeny Novikov

For the Estonian footballer, see Jevgeni Novikov. For the Russian swimmer, see Yevgeny Novikov.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Maksimovich and the family name is Novikov.

Evgeny Maksimovich Novikov (Russian: Евгений Максимович Новиков, romanized: Yevgeniy Maksimovich Novikov; born 19 September 1990) is a Russian former rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship from 2007 to 2013.

Evgeny Novikov

Novikov at the 2013 Rallye Deutschland
Personal information
Nationality	Russian
Born	(1990-09-19) 19 September 1990 (age 34) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2007–2009, 2011–2013
Co-driver	Alexey Aksakov Dmitriy Chumak Dale Moscatt Stéphane Prévot Denis Giraudet Nicolas Klinger Ilka Minor
Teams	Citroën Junior Team, Stobart Ford, Team Abu Dhabi
Rallies	49
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	2
Stage wins	15
Total points	173
First rally	2007 Wales Rally GB
Last rally	2013 Wales Rally GB

Career

Novikov driving a Citroën C4 WRC at the 2009 Cyprus Rally

Born in Moscow, Novikov won the Russian Rally Cup in 2006 and finished runner-up in both Estonian and Russian national championships in 2007.^[1] The 2007 season also saw him debut in the World Rally Championship at the season-ending 2007 Wales Rally GB.

In the 2008 season, Novikov contested a full six-event Production World Rally Championship programme as the series' youngest driver. He retired in four rallies and collected his only PWRC points at the Rally Japan, where he impressively led the category until suspension problems on the last stage dropped him narrowly behind Juho Hänninen. He still managed to stay 2.9 seconds ahead of Toshi Arai and with the eight points for the second place, he placed 13th in the championship standings.

For the 2009 season, Novikov was signed by the debuting Citroën Junior Team, Citroën Total's satellite team. With Sébastien Ogier and Conrad Rautenbach as his teammates, he will drive the Citroën C4 WRC in at least eight of the twelve rallies.^[2] He scored his first WRC points with a fifth place at the Rally d'Italia Sardegna,^[3] and his first stage win in the following event, the Acropolis Rally in Greece.^[4] He became both the first Russian and the youngest-ever driver to top the time sheets in the series.^[5]

After one year off from competition, Novikov returned to the World Rally Championship partway through in the 2011 season, making his first appearance at the Rally Mexico in a Stobart M-Sport-prepared Ford.^[6] He competed in eight of the thirteen rallies, scoring twelve points over the course of the season to finish the year seventeenth overall.

In 2012, Novikov joined M-Sport full-time. He scored his first podium at the 2012 Rally de Portugal, finishing third overall. He was promoted to second place when Citroën driver Mikko Hirvonen was excluded from the results.

For the 2013 season, Novikov joined the Qatar M-Sport WRT alongside Mads Østberg.^[7]

At the beginning of the 2013 Acropolis Rally, Novikov was the early leader after winning the first 2 stages and had a 40-second lead over Jari-Matti Latvala after stage 3. A puncture dropped him down to 8th and ruled him out for his maiden win, Latvala eventually won the rally.

Novikov failed to secure a drive for the 2014 season.^[8]

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2007	Evgeny Novikov	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE	GBR Ret	NC	0
2008	Evgeny Novikov	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG Ret	JOR	ITA											NC	0
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX							GRE 35	TUR Ret	FIN	GER	NZL Ret	ESP	FRA	JPN 11	GBR Ret
2009	Citroën Junior Team	Citroën C4 WRC	IRE	NOR 11	CYP Ret	POR Ret	ARG	ITA 5	GRE 15	POL 9	FIN Ret	AUS	ESP Ret	GBR					13th	4
2011	M-Sport Stobart	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	SWE	MEX Ret	POR	JOR	ITA 14	ARG	GRE 20	FIN Ret	GER	AUS Ret	FRA 24						17th	12
	ALM Russia	Citroën DS3 WRC												ESP 7
	Team Abu Dhabi	Ford Fiesta RS WRC													GBR 7
2012	M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON 5	SWE 5	MEX Ret	POR 2	ARG 8	GRE Ret	NZL 4	FIN 36	GER Ret	GBR 6	FRA 7	ITA 2	ESP 10				6th	88
2013	Qatar M-Sport	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON Ret	SWE 9	MEX 10	POR 4	ARG 4	GRE 9	ITA Ret	FIN 6	GER 9	AUS 7	FRA 5	ESP 5	GBR 19				7th	69

PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Points
2008	Evgeny Novikov	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	SWE	ARG Ret							13th	8
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX			GRE 15	TUR Ret	FIN	NZL Ret	JPN 2	GBR Ret

References

1. "P-WRC drivers: 35 – Evgeny Novikov (Russia)". WRC.com. Retrieved 24 December 2008.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. "Citroen announce junior WRC team". Rally-Live.com. 24 December 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
3. "Novikov scores his first WRC points". Eurosport. 25 May 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2009. ^{[dead link‍]}
4. "Maiden stage win for Novikov!". Rally-Live.com. 12 June 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
5. "A record for Novikov and the Citroen Junior Team". Rally-Live.com. 13 June 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
6. World Rally Championship – News – Prevot: Novikov has huge potential. Wrc.com. Retrieved on 2012-09-10.
7. "World Rally Championship - Results - Rallye Monte-Carlo". Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-01-18.
8. "World Rally Championship - News - Novikov to miss 2014 WRC". Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2013-12-27.

External links

• Official website
• Novikov at eWRC-results.com