Rasputin Alkonost-B

The **Rasputin Alkonost-B** (Cyrillic: **Распутин Алконост-Б**) is a fanonical Rally Car created by JustAlex93.

In *MotorStorm: Off The Grid*, it is reclassified as a Carlo Runner due to being rear-wheel drive.

## Details

Even though that Rasputin Motors already had the Psotnik participating in the Group B/10 class in rally racing events throughout the world, they wanted to take on the Group B/12 hotshots. In 1984, they received word of a group of people working in a recluse section of an Estonian bus factory on a new rally car, and decided to see it for themselves. It was at a time when official funding for private endeavors were hard to obtain in the Soviet bloc, especially for motorsports.

The car, originally known as the "**Sirin Turbo**" (Cyrillic: **Сирин Турбо**) and based on the Sirin family car produced by Rasputin Motors for the consumer market, featured a full spaceframe construction draped with a silhouette style of body.

The exterior featured front and rear clamshells made of lightweight composites, in addition to air extractors molded into all four fenders, and a distinctive set of twin rear spoilers to help with high-speed aerodynamics.

The engine, based on the Type-21 powerplant used by the Sirin, was completely re-engineered into a DOHC configuration with a turbocharger and produced a healthy 300bhp. It was also mounted midship within the car, making for good weight distribution.

The officials and technicians from Rasputin Motors who came to see the new car had noticed that it had quite a high level of engineering to it. They were so impressed with the vehicle they offered to provide the development team funding for the project in exchange for contributing to Rasputin's motorsports efforts. An alliance was made as a result, and the Sirin Turbo was renamed as the Alkonost-B, both after the counterpart of the Sirin in mythology and to denote it as a Group B rally car.

Funds were released for the manufacture of the required 200 homologation cars. It is said that about 20 to 30 Alkonost-Bs were manufactured, with a number of them being road-legal homologation models that use a 160bhp naturally aspirated engine to lower production costs while possibly trying to deceive FISA inspectors. However, just when the project received approval in 1986, the FIA discontinued Group B, aborting production of the Alkonost-B.

In 1985, the FISA announced the Group S formula. The new regulations would require only ten cars for homologation and was essentially a prototype class for rallying. Group S was originally scheduled to debut on New Years Day 1988 and then as a heavily revised replacement of Group B for 1987, but both were ultimately cancelled. Group S' mothballing had also lead to the canning of a new version of the Alkonost rally car, the Alkonost-S (along with a previous idea, the **Alkonost-B Type S**, which had a 350bhp engine plus minor revisions), that was planned for it.

However, it would not be the end of the Alkonost series at that point. The Alkonost-B Type S did see action at the 1987 and 1988 1000 Lakes Rallies. During the development of the Alkonost-S, there were considerations to improve the car using the engine and drivetrain of the Wulff Revo. With that, Rasputin Motors' motorsports division went back to the drawing board yet again, and in a collaboration with Wulff, Rasputin-Hoch from France, Molotov, and Tupolev, they developed the Alkonost Raid for cross-country rallying.

In addition, they modified and prepared a number of Sirins, of the three-door model, for Group A rallying in the Group A/5 and A/6 classes as the Alkonost-A.

Years later, when Rasputin Motors was invited by the MotorStorm Race Authority to participate in the MotorStorm Festival, they accepted. Some of the vehicles Rasputin provided were a number of Alkonost-B homologation cars modified for racing.

## Gallery

AA livery (driven by Zarina Beldad)Yellow (driven by the player)AZUG livery'84 show car livery#00000 AZUG Old Toomas Rally zero car livery (driven by Landslide)Type S1988 Type S AZUG 1000 Lakes Rally livery (driven by Strike Eagle)Type S AA livery
## Trivia

* The Alkonost-B was inspired by the Lada Samara EVA (and its later incarnation, the S-Proto), with some aesthetic changes, such as the headlights of the Citroen ZX Rally Raid and the taillights of the Renault 5 Turbo.
* The Type S is inspired by the Lada Samara S-Proto, a variant of the Samara EVA for the cancelled Group S rallying regulations.