With the days getting warmer and warmer streets getting filled with noisy and beautiful cars, which often means that drifting season is about to be opened. After a good winter sleep some drivers continue preparing their cars for the race and some haven't even gotten to the 'winter sleep' and been jumping around monsters in their garages the whole time.
This time we are going to Latvia to get a glance of sideways living there. If you're something like me - loving drift culture, then you gotta know who runs the place. I've had a chance to contact Eline, the queen of drifting events in Latvia, who puts a lot of work into this.
'It all started years ago with practise I needed for university', says Eline asked about how she got into this. 'I had a lot of friends who started to involve themselves into drifting in Latvia, so I started to interest more aswell into this autosport'. At that time drifting events were runned by HGK team, so she went to them asking for a practising and slowly making race after race. 'I'm not calling it business, it's not a business, it's a hobby!', adds E. Berke, who now is a head of the drift working group in Latvia, as well as in Baltic, NEZ drift groups and FIA.
As a writer, I always get chills when people give me high fives for what I do. As for Eline, she always loved to see tribunes all filled up as well as drivers lists, 'I liked the feeling when you stand in an opening ceremony and see it all together, the feeling that you have done that!'
There's no way around it, so I asked Eline what drivers and people can expect from Latvia this year, 'We always try to do our best for the drivers, so there will be new places, some new regulations'. E. Berke has shared her dreams that in the future she'd like to build a race track, 'It has started already, but it's a small process about that, maybe it will be done after ten years', says joking and adds, 'But I hope it will be faster'.
As a woman organizing all these events and giving all the free time she has for this, I asked why doesn't she participate with other drivers and she was serious about this telling that after the time her daughter was born, she doesn't even sit anywhere near when someone's going sideways, 'I don't know how to drift. I am afraid of it all'.
Next week Riga will be drowning in smoke clouds and will be deaf for a while because of monster-ish noises from one of the biggest drift event - season opening. 'After two years we are back in a normal track which won't be a Witch Kettle', says organizer. There'll be three leagues in two days with up to a one hundred drivers registered already. 'First day will be PRO, second - STREET and SEMI PRO. PRO drivers will have a big track layout and STREET league will have a bit smaller track'.
I've had a chance to look over the drivers list registered for PRO league and it's all the best drivers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. If you have ever been to even one of the drifting events in LV, you know it's no piece of cake, the pilots always go hard leading the best show you can imagine. I suggest all of you to circle around 6th and 7th of May, pack your bags and shoot to Latvia, because this is going to be epic!
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