- Nikolai Fomenko
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Nikolai Fomenko Born 30 April 1962
Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)Nationality Russian Occupation motor racer, musician, comic actor Spouse Maria Golubkina Nikolai Vladimirovich Fomenko (Russian: Николай Владимирович Фоменко, born April 30, 1962) is a Russian musician, comic actor, motor racer, president of Marussia Motors and engineering director of Marussia Virgin Racing.
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Music career
Nikolai started his career as vocalist and guitarist in the band Secret, who were very popular in Russia in the mid-1980s.
Actor career
Filmography
Year Film Role 1983 Speed (Skorost') Student 1999 Moon Father (Lunny Papa) Yassir 1999 The Sky with Diamonds (Nebo v Almazakh) Anton Chekhov 2000 Check (Chek) Brunet 2000 Old Hags (Starye Klyachi) Vassily Khomenko 2003 Chic (Shik) Botya 2003 Bedroom Key (Klyuch ot Spal'ni) Vakhlakov 2007 Model (Naturshchitsa) 2008 Radio Day (Den' Radio) As himself TV career
Fomenko performed in the popular Russian music collection series Staryye Pesni o Glavnom (Old songs about the important).
He hosted two seasons of a TV show The interception a season of the game-show The Weakest Link on Russia's Channel 5.
In 2009, he began hosting Top Gear Russia, the REN-TV spin-off of the BBC series Top Gear.
Auto racing career
In 1994 Nikolai was invited by Vladislav Listyev to participate in a car racing show as a celebrity guest. Later he started to train as professional racer and took his first victory in 1996.
FIA GT
Year Team Car № Class Co-drivers Points Pos. 2000 Freisinger Motorsport Porsche 996 GT3-R 58 N-GT Alexey Vasilyev
0 — 2001 Freisinger Racing Porsche 996 GT3-R 59 N-GT Alexey Vasilyev
0 — 2002 RWS Motorsport Porsche 996 GT3-R 77 N-GT Alexey Vasilyev
1 26 2003 RWS Yukos Motorsport Porsche 996 GT3-R 77 N-GT Alexey Vasilyev
Adam Jones
Stephane Daoudi
17 14 2004 Freisinger Yukos Motorsport Porsche 996 GT3-RSR 77 N-GT Alexey Vasilyev
26 7 Cirtek Motorsport Porsche 996 GT3-RS 73 Adam Jones
2005 Russian Age Racing Ferrari 550 Maranello 17; 18 GT1 Alexey Vasilyev
5 19 Endurance races
Year Race Team Car Class Co-drivers Pos. 2003 24 Hours of Daytona RWS Motorsport Porsche 996 GTS Alexey Vasilyev,
Patrick Bourdais
Walter Lechner Jr.,
Tetsuya Tanaka
28 (9) 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans Freisinger Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3-RSR LMGT Alexey Vasilyev,
Patrick Bourdais
DNF 2005 24 Hours of Le Mans Cirtek Motorsport/
Russian Age Racing/
Convers TeamFerrari 550-GTS Maranello LMGT1 Alexey Vasilyev,
Christophe Bouchut
17 (5) Car manufacturer
Nikolai Fomenko is involved in the development and launching of the Marussia sports car.[1]
Formula One
In 2010 Marussia became a sponsor of Virgin Racing Formula One team. On 11 November 2010, Marussia acquired a controlling stake in the team.
On 2 February 2011 Nikolai was announced as Engineering Director of the Marrussia Virgin Racing Formula One team.[2]
Personal life
He is married to Andrei Mironov's stepdaughter, actress Maria Golubkina, and has three children: daughters Anastasia and Ekaterina, and a son, Ivan.
References
- ^ Marussia sports car born out of Russia
- ^ "Virgin racing management reshuffle". autosport.com. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89230. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
External links
- Official Site
- Nikolai Fomenko at the Internet Movie Database
- Nikolai Fomenko at http://www.fiagt.com
Marussia Virgin Racing
Team Principal: John Booth
Personnel: Graeme Lowdon | Pat Symonds | Richard Branson | Nikolai Fomenko
Former personnel: Alex Tai | Etienne de Villiers | Nick Wirth
Race drivers: 24.Timo Glock · 25.
Jérôme d'Ambrosio
Test drivers:
Sakon Yamamoto ·
Robert Wickens ·
Adrian Quaife-Hobbs
Formula One cars: VR-01 · MVR-02Categories:- 1962 births
- Living people
- 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
- FIA GT Championship drivers
- Le Mans Series drivers
- Russian film actors
- Russian pop singers
- Russian racecar drivers
- Russian rock singers
- Russian television personalities
- European auto racing biography stubs
- Russian musician stubs
- Russian sportspeople stubs
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