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STYL ROZHOVOR

From a Small Go–Kart

To Truck Racing.

EUROPEAN

CHAMPION

ADAM LACKO

Speaks About

His Road To Success.

When little Adam Lacko first sat in a go-kart in 1994,

he probably had no idea that one day he would end up

among one of the top European motorsport drivers.

The Buggyra Racing team driver has won numerous

international championships and he is a multiple European

Vice-Champion. In 2017 he achieved the long-awaited title

of European Champion. Mr Lacko talked to us about his

beginnings, his successes and his plans for the future.

Hello, Adam. Tractor racing is a rather

unusual sport. How did you get into it?

Although it may not seem like it, tractortrailers have had a long history in

the Czech Republic, and this year these

races celebrate their 30th anniversary. I got

into this sport through Standa Matějovský,

the European Champion from 2001, who

was racing for Tatra Truck Racing Team

at the time. I am from Frenštát, which is

a short drive to Kopřivnice, so Standa

has known me since I was 6 years old,

when I first started racing go-karts. He

approached me to see if I would like to

try driving a Tatra tractor. I liked the idea

and so we decided to give it a try. The

first year I was a test driver for Tatra and

the following year I was racing Super Race

Truck in the Tatra Jamal category.

You have accomplished a lot since then.

You are a multiple European

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Vice-Champion, European Champion,

the only racer who hasn’t missed

the top three since 2015, and

you’ve won the trophy ‘Zlatý volant‘

several times... What experiences or

achievements have you valued the

most in your career so far?

Even though I have had many successes,

you always want to win. And I managed

to do that by becoming the European

Champion. That is my biggest achievement

so far, because truck competitions are all

over the world – there are championships

in China, Brazil, America, Europe, however

there are no World Championships –

Therefore, the European Championships

are the highest competitions for us. I won

the title, and that is what I’m most happy

about. Of course, I’m also very happy to

see that my nine-year-old son is slowly

following in my footsteps – he’s racing gokarts for the first time this year.

How fit does a professional car driver

have to be, what do you have to do to

get there? How often do you train?

Many people say: “Yeah, you’re just sitting

on your ass and turning the wheel”. (laughs)

But it’s not as easy as it seems. For example,

our Buggyra tractors are built in such a way

that we sit on the engine while driving.

The cabin is made of aluminum and the

engine is obviously very hot. Even if it’s only

twenty degrees outside, we have between

fifty and sixty degrees in the car. I’m sure

you can then imagine what it must be like in

the car when it’s thirty degrees outside. We

spend at least six drives of about forty-five

minutes each in one day in the cabin. If you

weren’t fit, you wouldn’t last in there.

Do you have some kind of ritual before

your races?

We have one truck on our team where we

do telemetry. There’s a bench that you can