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[Translated by Tomasz Oryński]
>>As a boss -- I can't complain. He could be better, but... I can't complain.
>>I don't worry about my dad. I know he knows how to drive...
>> There are various techniques to put car sideways. You can give it a shot from
the clutch, you can lurch the steering wheel... And then -- it is powerful enough to go.
>> It is a race with plenty of corners and you have to keep within certain trajectory
as set by the judge. [It is important] how you get into the bend, the first bend, if
you use your handbrake or not, and how you drive, how you control the car while sideways.
>> At the moment I am on the first position in the championship, we drive only
five-six months per year, five times we have a competition and one extravaganza on Silverstone.
The rest is only practices, shows, demos etc. Now the new track is open, propably the most
famous in Europe, it is called Driftland, there are, I think, 12 various possible configurations
of the circuit...
>>Mostly we practice there, because there you can practice everything: speed,
angles, evertyhing.
>>What's going on? >>Tyres are gone.
>> Tyres?
>>There is no machine on the tracks to change tyres there, so you just take three news sets of wheels and you go
just for a moment... On the track it is three times fifteen... three times five minutes
even, and you have to come back home as you are out of tyres...
>>It's Toyota Supra, 1996 year, engine is 2JZ, 640 hp and 700 torque, steering is
modified, there is hydraulic handbrake, injectors are changed, turbine, I can keep going on
what was done in that car to make it drives as it drives... As per driver's comfort: you
need to feel it, and you can feel the car better if you are strapped to it, rather than
rattling all over the cab.
>>In the past it was a bit more crazy, so you would go and drive more often, but
nobody can afford that. Let's count: every time I go, I need to change oil, three sets
of tyres, fuel, transport... It costs -- about 650-700 pounds just when I go to have some
fun. When I go to the competition, it cost me from 1500 to 2000 pounds.
>>Many companies, as you say: "Drifting? What is it?". In Poland they know what is
drifting, is well publicized. I know what is going on in Poland, I know that Poles are
not being invited to UK, because they just crush everyone. There is no comparition, 1000s
of people come, Polish events allow you to gain much, much more points... Poles are in
the lead in Europe, there is no joking with Poles. As for me, my skills are high for here.
I could try and take up the challenge, but I know, that boys in Poland do so well, that
you need really big balls to race against Poles...
[Business]
>>There are many ideas, you can make money on everything, but you need to have
facilities to do that. When I work on car, I try to fix it so it will go for longer.
Some people just want to have it cheap and it cheap is never good. People don't have
that much money, nobody will come with his Citroën Saxo and tell that he want to tune
his car. There come some people who have money, who own a big businesses and they just want
to build a toy for themselves. For regular customers one hour of workmanship costs 40
pounds, when I work on some performance car, it is 100 pounds. But performance is my hobby.
>> This wasn't a garage before. It was just a warehouse, I made it to workshop,
waiting room, cloakroom, office, gates, risers, tiles... I did everything myself, I did not
applied for any grants, I just took some credit, a really small sum, to finish the workshop
off, but all other funds were just from my savings.
>> I have one Pole, I have one Englishman, I was looking for others, but it was a tragedy:
everyone claimed to be an engineer, but they weren't.
>>They are insured from everything, I also signed them up for private medical
care, boys are happy as they wanted it that way, everyone knows what is going on in the
hospitals here.
>> For me, it wasn't any challenge. I never waited for anything, I was never afraid
that I won't have job. I knew the garage will be good for me, I know the ropes, and it came
to it somehow. What I have, I made from scratch.
>>My life? ... I have no life. None. It's just the garage, 14 hours per day, garage.
I come first, I close the doors at the end of the day and it's like that all the time.
I also want to have some rest, to relax, so I go to the track for half an hour and then
I am meek for the whole week.
>>What one can wish to a drifter?
>>To a drifter? A sponsor.
>>We have just watched a program about Polish mechanic, who realises his passion
-- he is a drifter. Do you think that it is a typical picture of the Polish immigrant,
or it is rather something unique?
>>I don't think it is unique, there is more cases like that and surely more people
like that will emerge, however it is interesting that a man who comes from Poland in search
of better work, better idea for his life is so successful.
>> Mhm, but look. There is that amazing conection between his work and passion. To
what extend his passion advertises his business?
>>I don't think it is that much advertisement for him. He said himself, if I recall correctly,
that unlike in Poland, here this drifting is not as much publicized. So even if he advertises
himself, it's aimed at very narrow group of people, while as he said he does not focuses
on motor sport only, he runs just ordinary, everyday garage, there were some taxi cabs
visible in the background...
>> I can tell you that success of that man can be based on his skills and knowledge.
We have to admit, that we, Poles, are the nation who can do many things. Here people
have very narrow specialisations: if you change bulbs, you cannot fix the TV set... Well,
I propably oversimplified it too much... But as you see, Poles can do many things on their
own, also at home, you would do a lot: you would make renovation of your house by yourself
and so on. So when this guy came here, he had much more, he had an advantage in his
knowledge and in what he get from the country...
>> I would like to put him in context of all these Polish businesses like Polish
restaurants, Polish shops. During last few years they disappeared from the streets or
changed hands so they were failures...
>> I don't think they were failures. It's just the sign of changing times. There
was a boom for Polish shops at the beginning, when that first wave of emigration came, they
fulfilled a niche for all these Poles who missed Polish bread, Polish dumplings and
so on. Nowadays even big businesses, such as the biggest networks of supermarkets, realized
that there is demand for it and now, if you want Polish bread and pierogi, you buy them
in supermarket while doing your weekly shopping. You don't need to go to a Polish shop for
that purpose, that's why Polish shops disappear or transform into, I would call it, specialized
delicatessen. I think that this is the breakpoint. One can have successful business aimed at
the Polish community here, but no matter how good business it would be, that Polish community
is relatively small. Only when you go out to British people you can say that you start
sailing on the open sea. If you want to make business spelled with capital "b", you
just have to aim at wider public.
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