Tanovaron Ulyzhamaki

Tanovaron Mykuvarich Ulyzhamaki (Cyrillic: Тановарон Мыкуварич Улыжамаки or Tanovaron Mykuvarič Ulyžamaki) is a Russian-Altruran ESPLAR Lites driver currently competing in the 2023 ESPLAR Lites Series. He previously competed in the Russian Touring Car Championship Series as a teammate to Yumiko Anjou and later to Kainan Izherov in his one season in Europe when he was not able to find a team for ESPLAR Lites in 2022. He is the 2021 RTCS champion after losing the previous season's championship to Yumiko.

Tano first raced in Russia in local series in 2019 prior to the revival of Russian Touring Car Series in 2020, where he won his first race in Kemerovo. He soon became part of the Tairo-Permskie Sport Rossiya team alongside then-Saihara Motorsports academy driver Yumiko Anjou. He initially failed to impress among the ultra-competitive Russian teams at Tatarstan, but the next race at Mari-El he managed to score a podium after starting poorly. Things immediately started to improve for Tano, taking 4 2nd place finishes in the next six races. Ultimately, he was not able to stand a chance against his teammate's consecutive victories, and Yumiko won the championship with 4 races left in the 16 race season. He did, however, win his first race at Krasnodar (the semi-final), and at the season finale in Komi, he won despite starting last on the grid, and here he earned the nickname as the "Steel Phoenix".

After Yumiko left for the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC), Tano was left in a solo car operation for TPSR. However, it did not matter as he went on a blazing tear on the RTCS field in 2021, despite the BNV20 pandemic halting racing in Russia for most of the year. Tano won 5 of the 10 events, and finished second in the rest, immediately handing him the RTCS title.

For the 2022 season, TPSR switched to Audis and brought along Kainan Izherov, an aspiring racer who was unable to find a team in ESPLAR Lites. Tano initially believed that he would compete for the title alongside him; what Tano did not expect was Kainan dominating the first six races of the season and jumping to a 2 race lead over him. He did win 4 of the last 8 races, but a engine failure at Moscow, the quarterfinal race, handed the 2022 title to Kainan, securing a drive for the returning Kiruvenik Racing in ESPLAR Elite Series for 2023. Seeking to challenge Kainan in the future, Tano secured a drive for 2023 in the ESPLAR Lites Series for the relatively amateurish Motorsport Gygynarov, which is based in Tambov. Both Tano and Kainan are increasingly becoming fierce rivals despite being on different tiers.