King of Europe celebrates its 12th Season and announces European calendar
12 years old, the King of Europe Series will continue its growth throughout Europe in 2016. King of Europe has become the meeting point for the best drifters in the world, with drivers attending from 50 different countries since 2005.
The first official series in Europe, King of Europe Pro Series, is recognised as Europe's professional drifting championship. Open to top-level drivers and run over eight rounds, the Pro Series is the ultimate prize for drifters. This is King of Europe's heart.
King of Europe Pro2 series, which will be replacing the “Street Legal Series” gives semi-pro drifters a chance to enter international events in front of a professional panel of judges and audience. It also offers drivers the opportunity to run on the same pro layouts during the season.
Queen of Europe is Europe’s «girls only» drifting series where the best female drivers come to battle it out for the title of Europe’s number one drift girl! 2013 was the first season of Queen of Europe which set a new benchmark for female drifting events in Europe.
Having a split of West and East championships for both Pro2 series and Queen of Europe series will increase the possibilities for semi-pro drifters to enter international events, with increased visibility on a European level which will also accelerate their opportunity to advance to the Pro Series.
King of Touge. Coming straight from the Japanese mountains, Touge drifting is composed of high altitude tricky drift layouts dedicated to the drifters with large skills and no fear. Go hard or go home is the core mentality for this thrilling category.
The line-up of dates for this year’s tyre-smoking action will proceed as follows:
ProSeries
PRO RD1 MAY 13-14 POLAND PRO RD2 JUNE 11-12 FRANCE PRO RD3 JULY 23-24 AUSTRIA PRO RD4 AUGUST 6-7 UNITED KINGDOM PRO RD5 AUGUST 13-14 SWITZERLAND PRO RD6 SEPTEMBER 3-4 SPAIN PRO RD7 SEPTEMBER 23-24 GERMANY PRO FINAL OCTOBER 8-9 SLOVAKIA
Pro2 / Queen of Europe East Europe
P2E/QOE RD1 MAY 13-14 POLAND P2E/QOE RD2 JULY 23-24 AUSTRIA P2E/QOE RD3 SEPTEMBER 23-24 GERMANY P2E/QOE FINAL OCTOBER 8-9 SLOVAKIA
Pro2 / Queen of Europe West Europe
P2W/QOE RD1 JUNE 11-12 FRANCE P2W/QOE RD2 AUGUST 13-14 SWITZERLAND P2W/QOE RD3 SEPTEMBER 3-4 SPAIN P2W/QOE FINAL OCTOBER 8-9 SLOVAKIA
King of Touge European Mountain Challenge
TOUGE RD1 MAY 21-22 POLAND TOUGE RD2 JUNE 4-5 FRANCE TOUGE RD3 JULY 30-31 HUNGARY TOUGE FINAL SEPTEMBER 10-11 FRANCE
Mike Procureur, Managing Director of King of Europe, commented “2015 was a huge step in the development of drifting across Europe and the world. In 2016, we will again make another step, but this time it will be even bigger. I could say thousand words about our evolution and our success but a few will be enough: King of Europe, definitely the drift place to be.”
For more information on the series head over to http://www.kingofeurope.net, or check out our one million fan Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/koedrift