Nikolass Bertans - the youngest drifter in the sun, has already achieved considerable success in his 14 years, but he still has many dreams and goals that he wants to achieve in the near and distant future.

- You are the youngest drifter in the world - this is an important title for a 14-year-old boy. What does it mean to you?

- I will say briefly - the fact that I am the youngest pilot in drifting does not mean that I can drive worse than others.

– How did your passion for drifting begin?

– I started to get interested in drifting at the age of nine at the wheel of what I call an "old rat" or a BMW E36 car, driving on ice.

– What does your daily life as a drifter look like in practice – how much time do training and competitions take?

– My everyday life is closely connected with drifting – since I work in the Wolftrike Drift Hall, I have the opportunity to combine the pleasant with the useful, and it turns out that I train the elements of drifting every day. For example, this summer I created a drifting school for children, where I trained children to give them the opportunity to learn what drifting is and how participants are evaluated in drifting races, as well as to learn the basics of drifting in practical lessons with electric drift tricycles.

– How do you manage to combine attending school with training and competitions?

– I manage to combine school and sports easily, because mostly the competitions take place in the summer, when I have free time. Of course, there are also competitions during school, so you have to get good grades before them so that the teachers have no complaints. This summer has definitely been more active than others in every way and, frankly, I'm not looking forward to the new school year that much.

- What do you like to do in your free time?

– Drifting is my hobby and I spend a lot of time on it. But I like to spend my free time with friends or going to a cinema.

– What are your personal and professional goals and dreams for the future?

– My personal goal is to successfully finish school. If we talk about professional sports, then I want to move from the ProAm class to the Pro class and show good results on September 7 at GYMKHANA GRID FINALS 2019 in Poland.

- You are the ambassador of Sportland's "Back to the Future" campaign - how do you imagine the future of the world?

- "Back to the future" reminds me of the Silicon Valley of San Francisco, because it seems to me that living in Latvia, we are in the past, living in Spain - in the present, and living in the USA - in the future.

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