page_title: Vitaliy Pushkar
section_title: Ukrainian Rally Championship
hierarchical_section_title: Vitaliy Pushkar / Career / Ukrainian Rally Championship
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Экипаж Виталия Пушкаря и Ивана Мишина на ралли "Буковина", Черновцы, 2009 год
context_page_description: Vitaliy Pushkar is a Ukrainian rally driver, Ukrainian rally vice-champion, European rally champion in ERC Production Cup category, and The Boar ProRacing team driver.
context_section_description: Pushkar began competing at the beginning of 2009 with his childhood friend Ivan Mishyn as a co-driver. Their first car was the all-wheel-drive two-liter turbo Subaru Impreza earlier belonging to Igor Chapovskyi.
  During that year Pushkar started 11 times in different rallying competitions – and only not finishing once, at the Bukovyna rally, due to technical problems.
  Pushkar changed car to a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX and employed Ukrainian rally champion Oleksandr Saliuk, Jr. as a coach. In May 2010, Pushkar won his first race, the Shapovalov Rally Cup, and finished inside the top ten fastest Ukrainian drivers at the end of the season.
  During the two next seasons, Pushkar was among the leaders of the Ukrainian rally championship, finishing the several rallies on the podium. In 2011, he reached the top five of the Ukrainian Rally Championship overall standings for the first time, and became the first and only winner of the Cup of Friendship, organized by the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian Automobile Federations.
  The 2013 season was the most successful for Pushkar, now involved in the Ukrainian rally title battle. Winning the Chumatskyi Shlyakh rally and placing third in the Mariupol rally made him one of the season favorites. An accident during the Galicia rally weakened his standings. The overall title was decided at the Ivano-Frankivsk Trembita rally, but although Pushkar won that race, he did not take the title, coming second to his fellow Odessa Rally Team driver Youriy Kochmar.
caption: Vitaliy Pushkar and Ivan Mishyn on rally Bukovyna, Chernivtsi, 2009
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