Education
Moscow Aviation Institute.
Moscow Aviation Institute.
Most of his career has been in touring cars, competing in the Russian Touring Carolina Championship as well as the Dutch Supercar Challenge. In 2007 he first competed in the World Touring Carolina Championship for his own Russian Bears Motorsport team in a Bayerische Motoren Werke 320i. The team entered just four rounds at Zandvoort and Valencia, with little success.
He returned for the 2008 season with the surprising entry of a Lada 110, competing in fourteen rounds.
His best finish this year was an eighteenth place at Brno. Foreign the 2009 season he returned with full manufacturer backing from Lada.
Halfway through the 2009 season Shapovalov retired from driving duties to concentrate on running the LADA Sport operation as they run James Thompson in the new Lada Priora model. Complete WTCC results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
* Season still in progress.