the end of the season is in the top five of the fastest participants in the championship of Ukraine. However, after the tragic death of Alexandrov at the Bulgarian rally "Sliven" Gorban returns to the cars of Mitsubishi Lancer, which are able to serve his own team. 2008: Prime Rally Team The 2008 season begins for Valeriy and his team with a change of image – the side of the cars is decorated with the logo of the new title sponsor, the alcohol brand Prime. By a strange coincidence, this season becomes the worst in Gorban's career – he manages to finish only twice in the races of the championship of Ukraine, never once taking the podium. Unsuccessfully things are going on and the team – for the first time in its history, it falls to the third place in the standings of collectives. As a result, cooperation with the vodka ceases, and in the new season, the people of Kiev are under a new brand. 2009—2013: Mentos Ascania Racing In 2009, the name of the Gorban team appears for the first time the name of its main company – Ascania. The season of 2009 did not become a breakthrough, although he brought the pilot the first podium in the Bukovina rally in two years, and the team headed by him returned to the top of the standings. But 2010 turned out to be much more successful. Already from the first races it becomes clear that Gorban has seriously added in speed, as evidenced by the victories in the rally "Chumatsky Shlyakh", "Lviv Standard", "Alexandrov Rally" and "Alushta". And although in the decisive race, the rally "Yalta", the absolute championship again goes to Salyuk Jr., the season for Gorban ends on a positive note: the Ukrainian Cup in the rally is won, in the championship "silver" is won, the team again becomes the first among the teams. The long-awaited champion crown goes to Valery a year later, in 2011, and, as many have noted, this is not without the help of Fortune. After the first race, held in Kherson, partner Gorban and his main competitor Alexander Salyuk, Jr., playing squash, breaks his collarbone and misses two championship races. Thus, the main rival of Valeriy in the struggle for the title is Odessa Yuri Kochmar – but he by coincidence passes one (final) stage of the championship. All this gave an