Ticket sales for the GARAGE FEST anniversary festival on "Igor Drive" have opened

The 5th GARAGE FEST 2026 Music, Speed and Drive Festival will be held on July 18 and 19 at the Igor Drive Autodrom in the Leningrad Region.

The main novelty of the program will be the endurance race "1000 kilometers of Igor Drive", which will bring together the best ring pilots of the country. Crews on various vehicles will take part in the launch, including Mercedes-AMG and Lamborghini GT3 supercars, various GT4 cars, sports prototypes that are gaining popularity in the country, as well as well-known world Touring cars (TCR). The pilots will need about eight hours of racing time to cover a distance of 1,000 km.

As in previous years, the festival will include a stage of the RDS Open Drift Championship and show races on the main straight highway ring road. In addition, cars that participate in the Russian Drag Racing Championship and Cup will be presented at the event in the RDRC zone.

Classic sports and racing cars, rare versions of modern cars, the golden fund of the Soviet automobile industry and the pearls of the global automotive industry will be on display at the Avtokultura site. Leading experts, journalists, bloggers and representatives of the motorsport world will discuss current topics of the automotive world in the lecture hall of "Avtokultur".

Cars participating in the "Autoculture" will participate in a "fashion show" several times a day, during which the presenter will tell interesting facts about cars. On one of the days of the festival, a large-scale parade will take place on the highway ring road.

The traditional participants of the festival will be the best young teams of automotive designers and designers from the country's leading technical universities, who will present their formula cars as part of the All-Russian Engineering competitions Formula Student. The participants have to design and build a racing car in just one year, and then defend their project in front of an authoritative jury and withstand numerous races.

Each day of GARAGE FEST 2026 will end with a concert program. In addition, the event will feature a large number of themed areas from the festival's partners, an extensive food court with a variety of cuisines, photo zones, a recreation area for visitors with children, an animation team led by the racetrack mascot Sid Lynx, and other entertainment.

Tickets for the GARAGE FEST festival can still be purchased on the website at minimum prices — until January 31, the cost of an adult ticket for two days is 3 thousand rubles. Children up to and including 6 years old, accompanied by an adult, are free of charge.

The press service of the motorhome "Igor Drive" on July 31 last year reported that the GARAGE FEST 2025 festival was attended by over 35 thousand people. The VK studio worked at the festival, where racers, bloggers, experts and other famous people became guests. This year, she moved around the entire festival area. She also completed a lap on the highway-ring road of the autodrome. The total duration of the broadcast over the two days of the festival was almost 16 hours and gained over 6.3 million views.

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