Tag: kristian klemets
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Baltic Drift Championship // Riga / 2018
Read more: Baltic Drift Championship // Riga / 2018After long winter rest I find myself at a familiar track – Bikernieki circuit in Riga. It’s a fresh tradition to start the Baltic championship at this infamous track. Eline Berke does a great job, always bringing full house of spectators and more than 100 drivers. But don’t get your hopes up, most of the drivers are pro-am or street league. Only 21 or 22 drivers were fighting for top honours, and that is from 3 baltic countries. Why is that? Well, for sure few teams didn’t manage to finish the car yet, few guys may be interested only in…
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Baltic Drift Championship 2017 // Riga
Read more: Baltic Drift Championship 2017 // RigaFirst event of the season is always special: everybody worked hard during winter and now drivers can test their cars and see what competition has to offer. For fans it’s also exciting: they get to see what drivers were building during the off-season, see new names in the drivers’ list, especially since some teams like to sit low and don’t post a lot of updates on Social Media. I’m glad to see that Baltic Drift Championship finally took a proper shape with about ten drivers representing each country, hoping that all of them will keep the momentum and visit the…
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Drift Allstars Estonia // 2016
Read more: Drift Allstars Estonia // 2016The past weekend Laitse Rally Park near Tallinn, Estonia welcomed the Drift Allstars championship with open arms, as some of the world’s best drift drivers came together for an explosive and unforgettable 2016 Estonian Drift GP. With a whole host of local wild-card drivers wanting to test their mettle against the international Allstars, it looked like it would be the event of the underdog, as several big names fell early on in the event to unseeded local drivers. However, when the smoke settled, Estonian Kristjan Klemets would find himself lining up against two-time Drift Allstars champion James Deane in the…
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NEZ DRIFT // ESTONIA / 2015
Read more: NEZ DRIFT // ESTONIA / 2015North European Drift championship. Few years ago it was most anticipated event in our parts of the world. Now it seems that it has grown into Baltic championship where few Scandinavians are competing for fun. Still almost 40 competitors arrived to put on a show. Estonians were in good form and almost all qualified well. Latvians were the main competitors. 2. Eduard Vahemets made a guest appearance with his Mustang. 3. Juha Pöytälaakso brought his E92 smoke machine. 4. Max Power! 5. Martin Vaga was showing strong runs all day. 6. Weather was very hot, many teams were double checking the cars…
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ESTONIAN PRO-DRIFT CHAMPIONSHIP 2014
Read more: ESTONIAN PRO-DRIFT CHAMPIONSHIP 2014In 2014 Estonian Drift Association performed the biggest job yet. Two events were held in Tallinn and every location was new to everybody. Drivers worked on the cars and appearance pretty well and already in May ’14 we witnessed new pro-drivers, new never-seen-before cars and sponsors. Team Smokehunters’ fleet consisted of a well known BMW 2002 and a completely new Ford Mustang with a BMW “inside”. Their main rival, both on the track and on the web (fight for fans on facebook is very consistent), Team Ghost got a big sponsor and was looking strong. Team NRR ditched the E30…