2012
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I read «Autoreview» — the most popular magazine about cars in Russia — since 1994. And I have never thought that my photos will appear on the pages of the favourite magazine. So, it’s here, on page 3 🙂 This photo was taken at Gorkyclassic event in Nizhniy Novgorod last year.
I join with so many others who knew Latvian most famous drifter Gatis Lapans in offering my deepest sympathy on his passing, who has died in tragic circumstances this week. Although it is little consolation at this sad time, it should be of some satisfaction to know that in his passing you can celebrate the end of a very long and productive life — in 2011 lapans took title of vice-champion in NEZ drift championship. This year he started developing drift in India. Gatis was 29 years old. Rest In Peace, Gatis!
This event took place on snowy track «333», arranged by KG Knutsson, official dealer for Thule products.
During the program participants had chance to take safe driving classes, to take part in time attack on ice track and finally to take co-drive in EVO X prepaired for rally with Harald Schlegelmilch, the 25 years old driver who has already managed to participate in championships like Formula Renault 2000, German Formula 3, Porsche Carrera Cup and F2 Championship.
It was very impressive, especially to get an experience in winter driving with 4×4 on track.
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As you know, End of Days is coming:) Here I tried to imagine how automotive racing will look like. More here
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It was the very last event at Bikernieki track for this season. Sadly, but we will not see any more drift, drag or track races this year. But we will have a lot of time to prepair cars for the next year! 🙂 Good luck! More photos here
And it doesn’t mean that rawcar.com/blog closes till next year — there are a lot of unpublished material and I’ll try to present it all.
A new unique book about GAZ-21 «Volga» has finally come to life — the book about legendary and almost symbolic car of soviet automobile industry , written by Ivan Paderin. The book contains multiple archive photos and facts, photos of beautifully restored cars and much more, on over 400 pages.
For me it’s a great honour to have my pictures selected from thousands of photos from Gorky Classic event for the first page (below). More photos from this event here.
Special thanks to Ivan Paderin and Nikolay Panuli for a signed copy of the book!
More information about this car you can find in Russian at www.GAZ21Volga.com
More photos soon!
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They are here, on streets of Riga! More than 60 participants from North Europe. Tomorrow is Drift Time!
More photos coming soon! Preview here
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Northern Europe (NEZ) PRO drift championship – the loudest and most powerful drift competition of the year in Baltics, rapidly moves towards Riga. On September 8 at Bikernieki track, Riga — more than 45 participants from seven countries will try to win the title of the best drift pilot in Northern Europe and prize pool of 6000 euro.