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Lucas Landin - Driver from the Frozen Tundra

Dubass Boss's introduction: It's a special day today — we've got the first blogger from the USA. Dubass is beyond the politics, and I'm happy that people who are mad about winter drift — Dubass — are uniting and becoming one big family, in spite of everything. We thank Lucas for his trust.

Hello, I'm Lucas and I'm a driver. I have a career in Network Security but hope one day to make my living by racing.

I'm from the Frozen Tundra in Minnesota. I prefer to drive sideways on slippery surfaces and there is no better way to do that then in the Winter. "They say sideways isn't fast, They must not know me." (Quote from me off my Twitter).

I've won many racing events the coolest being The Road America Winter Autocross Series in 2014. I'm currently competing in the 2015 series having took only 5th in the first event, only being 4.2 seconds behind a 440whp STi. Being that is over 200 whp over what my car puts down and there was no snow to even the playing field, I did very well.

The top 4 times in front of me all had well over 100whp on me with much wider tires. I'm really hoping for snow in the second event so I can compete for the 1st place and get the series points I desperately need now.

I also host my own events on a lake here in Minnesota for My friends and I to have fun. I host these under the Title of Ice Fun Events and am currently using #IceFun2015 as its hashtag for social media (Although, It's mainly Instagram.) We have stickers for sale so we can keep are cone fund up, as traffic cones is our favorite thing past the Ice and Snow. I race all year round with my Subaru and compete on everything from Ice, Snow, Dirt, Tarmac, and anything else they'll hold a race on.

I drive a slightly modified Subaru WRX and have owned this car since 2007. It was stock up till a couple years ago where the first thing I did to it was replace all the bushings in the suspension and driveline with Whiteline poly.

Then I added beefy ALLWHEELSDRIVEN Gravel Coilovers to the mix and an Oppomoto 6 point rollbar for safety. Oppomoto is a cage builder who has cages being raced in the Forumla Drift series here, and has had several of his cages tested out by fearless drivers. The car has upgrades done to the motor not in search of horsepower but in search of reliability and durability. Including a KillerB Oilpan, Baffle, and Pick-up along with 08 STi oil Pump and Silicone coolant hoses.

Ready to scream near redline for hours on end (I've done this). I drive for Team ARWA (Always Race While Awake, or the crowd favorite Assault Rifles With Ammo) a racing team that I started. Team ARWA currently have 3 drivers competing in the Road America Winter Autocross Series, One of them winning the FWD class first place (Go Richard!!!).

You can follow the expliots at facebook.com/TeamARWA or find me on Instagram or Twitter @Vorgto.

Important info

Dubass House of Lucas Landin

Community of Team ARWA

Instagram of Lucas

Twitter of Lucas

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Drift United Winter BootCamp from Track-Maniax on Vimeo.

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MaTaDoR_GT — Fun at the“Rotor”

It’s me and a story about rides again. 8th January, another snowy day. A great snowfall. I had nothing to do and I got the idea: “Why not to shoot cars blowing up a newly fallen snow?”

I posted on my community page: “Who’d want to have a ride and get pics then — write to me in private.” I didn’t wait long for a feedback.

Some of my friends responded: Vadik on Outlander, Lekha on Audi A5 and Ilya on Audi A4.

All the cars are 4WD and that was a perfect fit.
 More speed — more snow — more fun.

We came to a favourite ride place — “Rotor” plant parking — and did snowy Dubass there. We don’t have many places in our city where you can drift without disturbing anyone in the daytime.

Of-course, all that was shot by the camera. Personally, I prefer winter drifting around the city. Although in the night, when it’s dark, it’s almost impossible to get so juicy pics.

Everybody was leaving in high spirits, “bombed” with fresh forest air. My friends and I should go to the country more often.

Then I sent over the pictures to the guys. They changed their avatar pictures and were satisfied with that :)

A couple of weeks earlier, at the same place, I was lucky to shoot and try on a new Subaru WRX 2015. My first impression: it’s quiet inside, comfy and nothing in excess.

I really liked the way the car is fitted and equipped. You can easily notice the growth in quality, if compare with the previous body. Full-colour display between tachometer and speed counter. There’s also an additional display on the top of the panel that you can set the boost pressure data and other characteristics on.

It’s me circling there. It goes so good. Turbo Impreza is a very worthy car. But to understand it totally, you need to drive some thousands kilometers and go to track. The car left a positive impression, notwithstanding the little time we had together.

Important info

Dubass House of MaTaDoR_GT

Community of Matador  

Community of support and development of auto sport in the Altai region

Video channel of MaTaDoR

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Kan.K — B4’s and New Year Race

Once upon a time there were some subarists! And all the clubs and those who’d like to have a ride gathered for a New Year Race. “Auto Pride” was the organizer there.

The meeting was held on the “Old Square,” after the ride around the city, and then moved to the mountains, to the Medeo. All the city car clubs gathered there. Most of them were BMW’s, Prioras and, of-course, Subaru club Almaty.

During all the way I was in the Forester shooting all that from the sunroof. It was unbearably cold, and my face got frozen because of cold wind. It wasn’t good but it was worth that! In Almaty it usually snows a lot in winter but this year it’s melting so fast :(

Having come to the Medeo, one of the main tourist sights of the city, all the clubs members began chatting standing near their iron horses and launching the fireworks. That was really great and beautiful!

After that some of us went back to the “Old Square” and some others went home. I went with the B4’s to take pics in the parking area. We got it NFS Underground style.

I truly liked the exposure picture with the B4 wearing the Blitzen body kit and standing near the road. It is so amazing!

The zest was in the end, when a black Bentley came and started doing Dubass around the Forester, and then the Forester was circling the same way! What’s more interesting, there was only one driver and I was shocked while watching how he was going to Forester from Bentley and then back again.

A very fun day it was, and I’ll remember it for ever because of its actions. 
Fingers crossed, Almaty will be overwhelmed with snow soon. I hope there will be a post about Bentley in Dubass in the near future.

The ride to the Medeo with the B4’s.

We also tested the “slow motion” effect on iPhone6. It appeared to be pretty good. Dubass in slow motion looks very juicy!

Important info

Dubass House Of Konstantin Kan Photographer Konstantin Kan (Kan. K)

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MaTaDoR_GT - Mitsubishi Airtrek

Hi everybody. It’s been a long time since my latest video, so catch the newest one. The guy I know, he’s the owner of a turbo Mitsubishi Airtrek, gave me an idea to shoot something. Well it didn’t take long to go to rides.

We chose Friday night for shooting as it’s the time when there’s less traffic. We decided to choose new routes for driving. We didn’t come to some places loved by drifters like “River Station” as it’s overcrowded all the day and there are police sometimes — the shooting could take much more time.

We had a big company there — four cars, but we had planned to shoot only Airtrek. One of the cars was used for having cameras installed on it, thanks to Lucky13 team for their help. We drove for an hour and collected some materials. Then all the cars left. It was a very warm ride.

Important info

Dubass House of MaTaDoR_GT Community of Matador   Community of support and development of auto sport in the Altai region Video channel of MaTaDoR Community Lucky 13

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GoltsProd

Hey everyone!

My name is Artem Golts, I’m a photographer and a cameraman, and I deal with shooting sports cars. Currently I’m working on several projects. I have so much to do that I’m even writing this article on my way to the education institution.

In December we shot a Subaru WRX 2007. 320 hp review: 4wd and snow; what’s more to need for perfect winter Dubass? The car is very vigorous and “passing.” Anyway opposed engine is an obvious point — like a tired sportsman, it overheated several times. 15 minutes to give the car and the team some rest and then we go on disturbing that red Japanese one.

Having a small talk with the owner (Miroslav), we learned that as a stock, the car had 230-240 hp. Thank to the right chip tuning and turbine VF48 they managed to get these characteristics. I’ll be honest, perhaps, that’s not the full list of updates and Miroslav didn’t note something…

As the owner claims, this spoiler is unique; it’s to be installed on the factory and doesn’t have any other match in Russia (it might have but I’ve seen loads of Subarus and never met like this one).

The colour is original as well, a factory one. But having driven it for 10-12 hours, I noted lots of weak points and the fastidious way it acts. Miroslav complains about big oil consumption it has. Sure!

A bit later I had a chance to try on EVO9. I liked it but it’s a totally different story :)

In January I had a photo shoot of a red Nissan Skyline R32. Sergei is the owner. The car is low, loud, powerful, rear-drive, and moreover, it’s a very rare one in Moscow.

Some say that Skyline has to be blue, black or white but not red. To me, red perfectly fits it. White wheels complete the image.

The car was built at the beginning of the 90s — it’s a bit older than me and the owner. First, when the car was in Vladivostok, the combination of turbine+engine gave like 600 evil hp.

After the car had been moved to Moscow, the turbine was replaced. Now the power is 400+ hp. Due to that, the car tends to eat 20-22 l per 100 km in a mixed mode. If you drive much it takes 30-35 liters.

The road on the day of shooting was horrible: it had snowed a lot in the night. -25°C. Very cold. The rear tyres are bald; ice instead of asphalt. We decided to get sideways a bit on a flat road. As a result, we were drawn to the opposite side and got the front bumper torn off.

There was a Peugeot near us that we were lucky not to touch. Thank God we had best helpers of a drifter — cable binders :) We repaired it for 15 minutes and went shooting.

While we were driving, we grabbed all the bumps with our sills.

Well that’s it. I decided to combine two cool cars in one post :)  

You look forward to new posts :) Smooth roads and good luck to you all :) Subscribe to me here and in social nets.

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Dubass House of Artem Golts Instagram of Artem Japan Cars group Vinogradow show RaceBox group

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Nsk Dubass

Hi from Novosibirsk. I took up photography only two years ago. I believe, I started like any other photographer — shooting flowers, friends, and so on.

At the beginning, I had an ordinary Canon “point and shoot” camera that I had been saving up money for one or two months for. It worked beautifully and each time I tried its new adjustments and opportunities. Seven months later I got an idea to buy a reflex camera. I saved up money for it for five months.

I didn’t know anything about autosport then yet but last summer I first came to a car audio show and G-Drive show. That was the show I set my sights on being a car show photographer.

Since the summer season 2014 opening date, I’ve visited every car event. Since the first day until now, I’ve been shooting races and cars with a big pleasure.

Two of my very first accreditation inquiries were not approved, and only after the third try I got accredited for drift deals. I was very happy. After that I was allowed to come to every competition; I made new friends, both boys and girls. I became a photographer of several car clubs.

As closer to winter time, I started shooting cars with girls in service stations. When I shoot cars, I go to woods or parks nowadays. If there’s a need to shoot a car sideways, we go to open areas or to tracks. The pics are awesome there.

I’ve not a bit of regret that I chose this way. I hope that in the near future I’ll be able to come to drift events not as a photographer but as a participant. I’ll try to get to you more often with my posts. Subscribe to my page, I’m always happy to meet new interesting people.

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Dubass House of Artem Zhalskikh I’m a SUBARIST 54 region Photographer Artem Zhalskikh FULL_SPEED_CLUB   Artem’s Instagram

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Vitaliy Pitbuul Ekaterinburg

Hi there, my dear fellows, WDLS followers! My name is Vitaly Kurkin, I’ve been into photography for over three years. Not long ago I managed to reach professional level.

Who could ever think, and even me, I had no idea that photography would get me this much. I took my first camera — “point and shoot,” of course, just for myself, as many of us did. I would shoot everything I saw and take it everywhere with me.

Once I decided to sort out the pictures and suddenly found some nuances of composition in the photos and noticed what could have added something into my shot or was just needless. The wish to take good photos was tempting. That was the start.

I was growing, and my wishes and needs were growing along with me. In time, I opened up new horizons: to choose the equipment, to learn from real professionals, etc. I seriously began to improve my self-development not only in technical point but also in my inner world.

I realised that not the way you push the button is what matters but what you see in result. Everybody can just push the shutter release button but if you don’t have the result you want to get in your head, you won’t get it on a picture anyway. Any picture should have its soul that is to convey emotions (no matter what type of emotions).

Even if to take into account all the variety of feature photography area, a person who’s great on photo sphere should have the taste, sense of style, chastity of patterns, composition; they should see the appropriate angle and other characteristics that are to make a quality picture. It takes ages to learn that all. In fact, we always learn.

My love for cars and technical things in general was born in my childhood. Powerful cars with “loaded” engines, motorbikes which I had only seen on TV before — that’s like a magnet and it’s appealing.

I got to know drift three years ago (a long story). Now I see it, I feel it and attend drift events so often that I don’t deal anything else with. I’m an official photographer of ULD-RDA (Ural League of Drift that is included into the Russian Drift Alliance) and also a photographer of RDS-Ural.

Thanks to WDLS that gathers a massive amount of soul mates who you are on the same page with. You get the chance to see, to feel, to gain somebody’s experience, to get happy and receive positive emotions — even just from the PC screen watching winter drift videos, pictures, and so on. Thank you for being here.

Important info

Dubass House of Vitaliy Kurkin Photo4you group   Official site-portfolio

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Orenburg Dubass heroes

My name is Oleg. I’m a photographer. I love cars. Since my childhood, since that “Turbo” chewing gum bought by my parents for the first time, cars have got their place in my head — every man has his hobby-horse…

I very often offer some owners of original cars to cooperate but not everyone agrees. People are suspicious nowadays and trust there should be a catch in it somewhere anyway. Communication skill is very useful in such points.

Anyway, I’ve never had such problems with my friends. I’m very thankful to them for all the morning/evening/night trips, for their patience and dedication.

To the best of my ability, my dear readers, I’ll be introducing my friends to you and attaching juicy pictures we always try our best to get.

Our trend is “Power. Strength. Beauty of motion.” That means that if it’s a sports car, it should go fast. Get ready to dive into the atmosphere of winter drive, my friends!

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WDLS to everybody

Hi everyone!!! I wish you all a belated Happy New Year and Merry Christmas, wish you happiness, success, and great Dubass!

My friend and I decided to celebrate this New Year 2015 with good rides on our cars. We are both Subaru fans and both are Legacy owners.

It’s so wet outside; mud and slush everywhere in the city. The weather is not particularly good. And we don’t have much room to do Dubass in our “metallurgic” city, only plants and roads full of holes made by trucks.

That’s why we agreed to meet up, and then spoke on the phone and decided to go to the reservoir, to the sand spit. We gathered a good company of friends and rolled out.

It was a very good day, a sunny one. Much of free room, go wherever you want. Fishermen there were looking at us with a great interest and couldn’t hide their smiles. They didn’t expect two passenger cars to be piling on in the snow without sticking!

Sure, we couldn’t avoid being teased and mocked like our “belly scrapers” are not capable of doing such things.
My friends, I tell you it’s amazing to drive there. The snow is lovely, our mood is fine, and loads of positive vibes!

We had great rides, a good rest and really spent time well. It was great fun! It was getting dark already and time to go home to wash the cars and warm up with something hot :)

I wish you all awesome Dubass and much success in this good work!!

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Old School Dubass/50 years of love to winter drift

Ice track racing is originally a Russian car racing sport. Track races held on hippodromes, where usually horses go, have been hold since 1966 and there is no show like that in the World!

The width of a Russian track allows having wildly beautiful overtaking on any part of a track. Profiled turns allow driving on high speed and testing various paths.

Ice track racing is a 100% extreme sport. As one of the participants of Russian tracks, Maxim Novikov, said, it’s also a very beautiful sport. The cars being “piloted” by brave drifters showing their skill, when coming into curve, they gear up so madly and kick up the fountains of snow dust.

That picture, indeed, thrills and dazzles. That no-tolerance contact fight and always unpredictable intrigue of a race course — all that overwhelms both participants and the audience with adrenaline.

And what’s more, our track has got unique surface. The point is that for races, one usually uses working hippodromes. Snow puddle, made by horse hooves and watered then finally gets hummocky: it’s fairly slippery but at the same time it holds the car. This surface allows us to get a very high speed but it’s almost impossible to get it outside a working hippodrome.

Currently winter track races are not having good times. Competitions held on natural water bodies are prohibited de facto, and we got nothing left from that variety of Russian ice tracks. In the international n-1600 class the number of participants is getting less and less every year. Many of them cannot afford to have 200 hp cars and the imported tyres that are required to be used.

In the national category the things are much better. On 23rd February the annual “Za Rulem” Cup will be held on the Central Moscow Hippodrome. Among region races, as usual, you should give a thorough look at a very strong Tatarstan Championship and at one more “studded” contest — Udmurtia open championship in the A-1600 class. All the three stages will be held on a 1067 meter hippodrome in the centre of Izhevsk.

The most large-scale track race championship now is the seven-stage Ural, Siberia and Kazakhstan Cup that will gather not only front-drive A-1600 but also rear-drive D2K division. The main difference between this series and others is that its participants, as it used to be earlier, use studless tyres on their cars.

This way autosport that settled at the end of 1960s in Udmurtia, succeeded for the next two decades. This sport gained popularity among the immense area of the USSR. All the racers of that time are like pioneers and deserve to be respected a lot!

Thank to them, winter autosport has become a national one and is loved by everybody. In every corner of our big country we can find a fan of winter drift — Dubass! Every drift racer is our hero, our heritage, our pride.

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Old School Dubass/Contribution of Udmurt Republic

When people in Izhevsk launched the “Moskvitch” production in 1966, a new sport settled in Udmurtia — autosport. Later on the testing laboratory of sport cars was opened in Izhmash. A new power train of increased capacity was created that let the Izhevsk drifters compete with the best racers of the country.

Among first drifters in Izhmash there were L. Morozov, V. Shikhov, V. Nechunaev, V. Pestov. Later S. Brundza and his team were invited to Izhmash to promote sport in Izhevsk. A young engineer of the car plant A. Brum began to participate together with S. Brundza. In a short time period they got a united team of car racers who were succeeding in All-Russian and All-Soviet competitions.

Winter track races for the prize of PO Izhmash that were launched in 1972 were popular in the region. Racers from Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Tolyatti, Kazan and some other cities came to the races. To speak official, it was a national autosport.

At that particular time our grandfathers were learning to get sideways while cornering. They were driving Moskvitches 412, 2140, GAZ 2401 and 2410. The stands were flooded with fans. They had something to look at: dizzying speeds, contact fight, flights into snow piles, and turnovers.

There was a thin book published by DOSAAF named AUTOSPORT then. That was all about autosport literature. Unfortunately, you could find very little information about winter driving there. It said that western racers used “four wheels drift” and “power slide.” There was no detailed information. So what is the right way of cornering? By four-wheel drifting or by power sliding? It looks like there were few people who could give a good answer, in the time of total lack of information.

Lots of circuit or rally racers used winter holidays to race on the racetrack, although many of them were afraid of high speed and unpredictability of a car when driving on ice surface. Anyway winter track was considered to be a good practice, especially for self possession and nervous system stability.

Coming into corner, drifters and their cars could go for up to 145 km/h and the tyres were studless! They even didn’t know about military tyres. The old school of Dubass — they are real extreme sports fans of their time. Winter track is still a real Russian fun.

In 1989 the All-Soviet ice autocross was first held in Udmurtia. The first champion of the competition was V. Goltsov. M. Shikhov and A. Kulakov went after him. V. Goltsov performed a feat in the 1980s. Partaking in different track- and rally races, also in autocross races, he became the USSR champion twelve times.

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Old School Dubass/ How it began

Why do we like Dubass? It’s in our blood. Even our grandfathers did that!

The story of rally as a sport competition in the USSR began in the 1950s. The main weapon of Soviet rally racers consisted of “Pobedas” and “Moskvitches.” At that time all the competitions were of amateur type — all the racers were driving standard cars.

In the august of 1950 the first USSR Car Racing Championship was held on the Minsk Roadway. There were no tracks in the USSR yet and no autosport as well, that’s why they just fenced out the road for competition and drove on a flat asphalt surface. The contest was divided into two classes: “Pobeda” and “Moskvitch.”

Two two-seater sport “Moskvitch” cars were built in 1962 for participating in circuit- and track races in the special sport cars category. The production car body roof of model 407 was shortened; only two of four doors left; no decorative elements; sound insulation and lining of the car.

Instead of production 45 hp they got the motor power M-407 raised to 76 hp. Sportsmen called “Moskvitch-407-coupe” a Cyclops. Racers won lots of prizes on those cars; in particular they got the bronze medal in the Russian championship for a circuit race in 1962.

Since 1960s to 1980s people could only take part driving Moskvitches 412, 2140, GAZ 2401, 2410, VAZ 21011; after that and before our times — on VAZ 2107,2108, 21083,  2109, IZH 2125, GAZ 3102, 31029, 3110.

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Kan K & Subaru GF

It all started when a friend of mine sent me a VK-link to a Subaru owner page. He offered me to go for photo shooting with him and drift a bit as well.

Later we found out that the owner lived in the house next to me. I saw his Subaru so many times but never had a chance to talk. His name is Stepan and he’s been in the autosport for a long time.

He participates in Gymkhana racing series (GRS) and in the Kazakhstan Speed Figure-Driving Cup. Once we met up, we left for a shopping centre parking area.

We expected that we would find a lot of snow there but it had been done out. Anyway we did manage to do Dubass well.

I really liked the professional way Stepa was driving and cornering, and turning round. He and his car were like one whole thing.

Then we moved to the “Old Square” and met GT86 there.

After chatting we went to the Opera and Ballet Theatre. Sideways, of-course. It was really beautiful near the theatre — fairy lights, snow, all that was full of Christmas atmosphere. All the pics we made are so bright!

Finally my neighbour and I came home safe.

Important info

Dubass House Of Konstantin Kan

Photographer Konstantin Kan (Kan. K)

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Hungover Armchair Winter Drift

Hi everyone! Right after the New Year’s Eve one of our club members asked us to come to his place to celebrate the first day of a new year.

Finally, we got the party of eight people. We were sitting at the table chatting and having fun. Then we decided to get some fresh air: we had skates and a tube with us (ice hill and ice rink are fairly close). You know there’s no fun just to walk around.

While we were going out, we saw the armchair near the entrance that we last time used to protect our BBQ from wind :)

Without pausing to think we nailed two metal plastics onto it — like ski :) and went to dubass.

It was amazing. From time to time we could drift well with that machine. We had heavy falls and flights into snow piles.

People around were shooting videos, laughing and putting their thumbs up!

We were going around the village streets and making reversal in narrow spaces.

The ski fell apart then. We took the armchair home and got the tube. We rode it then.

Now we’re going to work out the ski construction and shoot a funny video soon. Perhaps we’ll drift the armchair around the city.

Have fun on holidays. Happy New Year and all the best!

Important info

Dubass House of MaTaDoR_GT Community of Matador   Community of support and development of auto sport in the Altai region Video channel of MaTaDoR

wdls.ru

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amazing!

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Karting in Dubass

In our club there are some guys who are enthusiastic not only about amateur car races but also about karting. They partake in competitions both in summer and in winter. Technical equipment is different for different seasons.

Our club members often gather for various events in any of the guys’ garage: BBQ, talks about cars and other things. That evening we gathered in tribute to our Club’s fifth anniversary. Not everybody could come though. The reason was all that New Year’s fuss, staff parties, etc.

We always have adventures when we meet up. That time we launched the karting thing, drove around the parking area a bit and then went to the Lenina Prospekt Street to get it sideways.

It was about 9pm. There were some cars on the roads. We tried to do everything carefully but at the same time to rock anyway.

The Lenina Prospekt is the main street in our city. We were driving on the side of the prospect. It all went smoothly if we don’t take into account our goofiness that made some of us sad :) The poles were safe :) I think something special is coming soon, you’ll see.

Important info

Author: Stas Filatov Photo: Stas Filatov

Dubass House of MaTaDoR_GT Community of Matador   Community of support and development of auto sport in the Altai region Video channel of MaTaDoR

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