Formula Easter

Formula Easter (or Forma Easter) was a single-seater, open wheel, open cockpit circuit car racing series that ran from 1972 to 1988 , specifically created for drivers from the communist bloc. Cars driven were created solely from parts manufactured by the COMECON industry or created from scratch as a citizens' initiative by Eastern Bloc residents. Nominally, the series belonged to FIA Formula Category 9 and Technical Group 8, although the FIA only acknowledged, and did not officially sanction, its existence.

Formula Easter (or Forma Easter) was a single-seater, open wheel, open cockpit circuit car racing series that ran from 1972 to 1988 , specifically created for drivers from the communist bloc. Cars driven were created solely from parts manufactured by the COMECON industry or created from scratch as a citizens' initiative by Eastern Bloc residents. Nominally, the series belonged to FIA Formula Category 9 and Technical Group 8, although the FIA only acknowledged, and did not officially sanction, its existence. == At the races== International Formula Easter events were often held at Schleiz (GDR), Autodrom Most (CZ), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR) and Kyiv (Ukrainian SSR), as part of the Cup of Peace and Friendship series. Some countries also held national Formula Easter races, with up to a dozen participating cars. The international series were mainly dominated by Estonia Formula cars, which were the most successful and won many titles, because Estonia was more open than the rest of the USSR, so it was easier to access information about western racing technology. Soviet, East German and Czech-Slovakian teams were also competitive because they could rely on a degree of support from their domestic car industries. Lesser teams, like the Hungarians (who had no domestic automobile manufacturing), had to resort to home-garage-built racers, equipped with stock non-export Lada engines or rely on friendly donations of disused Formula Junior and Formula Vee cars from East Germany, which had to be extensively reworked to qualify for Formula Easter. After the fall of communism, many Formula Easter teams and drivers converted to the Formula Ford series. ==References== ==See also== Keleti torpedok - Torpedoes of the East * Autoversenyzok (Race car drivers), a Hungarian docu-movie, 94 minutes, year 1979, scripted by Attila Foldi, directed by Peter Rona, photography by Sandor Dobai [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtDJ2QRYWM Stiller, an amateur's struggle to race on the new Hungaroring (docu-drama aired by WDF, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne television, 1986)

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