Month: November 2015

  • Is Petter Solberg and Monster Energy a Good Fit?

    Let’s talk about the war of energy drinks and Petter Solberg this time. We start with drinks: basically in every motorsport or extreme sport discipline there’s a battle between Red Bull, Monster Energy and Rockstar. Red Bull supports more disciplined or old school athletes, usually champions with many years of experience; Monster Energy concentrates on young guns, athletes with a lot of passion and strong lifestyle. While Red Bull sends people to space, wins F1 titles, WRC, Dakar and many more, Monster is pretty much hungry for the wins, so the situation that happened at the beginning of 2015 got…

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  • Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa Ringrada Exhibition

    In one of the recent days I was passing by the street where the building of National Archive is situated and noticed that there is a pleasant and humble exhibition about the early years of Estonian motorcycle racing that were held in Pirita part of Tallinn. It was a six kilometre road course called Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa that hosted it’s first race in 1933.  Later it became known as Kalevi suurvõistlus (Kalev Big Race) and it was Estonia’s most prestigious racing event with all the USSR competing. Expo itself consists of some photography of the past, booklets from 1930s to 1970s, medals and few…

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  • How hard can it be to make a “Gatebil” in Baltics?

    Hello beautiful reader, it’s cold in the parts where I live and my camera is hidden for few months already and awaits the next racing season to start in April. Although I have ideas for visiting some winter-cold WRC events in between. Today I want to talk about one event that many people believe is the mecca for automotive pleasure. It is called Gatebil which means Street Car in Norwegian. It’s an event where 40 000 people from all over the World come to enjoy themselves, get inspired, be astonished, to feel free to express who they are and what…

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