NISSAN LOVE STORY. GEDIMINAS LEVICKAS

If you‘re a drifter and a proud owner of nissan bolid, there are more than 50% chance that your car was driven by Gediminas Levickas – one of the best drifters in our country, who‘s getting better at this autosport by days. The drifter spends most of his time in his own garage, which you could call a nismo paradise, because there ain‘t no other cars than that, where he builds and repairs drift automobiles. The garage is located in the middle of the woods, so even at night you can see the light peeking through tall trees and hear screaming engines while passing or driving by. 

Gedas is a goofy man who likes to help others in trouble with their cars. Once, I‘ve met the guy and he told me the story about his drift life and love for jdm cars. „No drift, no life“, he says. The pilot caught drift madness when he first saw Ramūnas Burzga going sideways with Nissan Silvia who had 2jz at D1Sport championship in 2011, Siemens Arena parking lot. Talking about what really got him into this autosport, he replied that it was the show, the smokes and people‘s reactions, „I was stunned everytime I saw someone drifting“.

The rush, the track when everything blurs out from speeding, smokes coming out the tires, the engine bubbling up, the excitement and most important – the adrenaline.. I mean, who wouldn‘t like that, right? 

You can always see Gediminas behind jdm wheel, but there were the days when he was a pilot of BMW automobile and Nissan‘s were used just as daily cars. Watching videos of drifting on Youtube he tried to do the same on his ground, but something went bad and the driver got into an accident, „I tried to drift on the third gear, on the wet ground“ and then he crashed. But that didn‘t stopped him – wrecked car was replaced with new jdm one. „Going sideways I learned with M50B20, in Paneriai parking lot“, says smiling. „All season I didn‘t skipped a drift show. I did pretty good, even though I had no sports wheel, nor coilovers or knowledge about drifting“.

„I always have had a Nissan, but once I‘ve got BMW in my hands - I brewed diff and runned in the sreets. Then, one day I drove to a drag race in Paneriai and saw that they are drawing donuts and so I started drifting there too, for every thursday all season“. 

First Nissan car that Gedas got was a red S13 which he crashed soon after. The collector's of Nissan cars list goes on and on: plenty of nissan s13's, nissan s14's, a skyline which was an amazing car. I remember at one championship's stage in Kaunas the drifter showed up with a black skyline which had steering wheel on the right side of the car. The pilot had troubles driving it only because of that. But let's face it, Gedas can handle any car now and drift it like a pro.

The current drift car that Levickas has is a Nissan S13 with rocket bunny kit which he assembled from scracth all by himself. It took a really long time and hard work for this monster to get to life. S13 has 2jz heart with up to 600hp and is programmed. "It's a simple regular car", says pilot's brother. But from the looks, I'd say it's a bomb.

Though the car still has problems on the track from time to time, it doesn't stop there - Gedas knows it too well. The pilot has a shelf full of throphies from various championships, have been participating in Latvia with the strongest drifters around, though there were times when he had lended a different Nissan S13 from a friend.

Gediminas, in his garage, also keeps one more jdm car using it for trainings and sharing it with other drifters, as good friend as he is. It's a simple Nissan S14 with BMW engine that keeps car on going. Steering sports wheel is placed on the right side, but after such a long time it's  not even hard to handle it that way.

As for the future no one knows how he's going to surprise us all, but it definitely will be jdm. And as always, I wish him to become the next drift king of Lithuania, because sometimes it takes so little to become so big. And when the pilot wants - he can get it.