Watch as drifters take over a former Soviet missile base

I’M NOT sure about you, but I can’t say I’ve ever woken up in the morning and thought: “Today seems like a great day to go for a casual drift at a Soviet missile base.”

It’s even better when you realise that missile base is now completely abandoned, and you have access to three fully tricked-out rides. Such a prospect suddenly becomes quite a tantalising one.

Pro drifters Ryan Tuerck, Kristaps Bluss and Matt Powers took the opportunity to do just this, and the results it must be said are pretty sick.

In something reminiscent of full-time Hoonigan Ken Block’s Gymkhana video series, the on-point squad drifts around woods, overgrown concrete courtyards, each other, and giant random sculptures of revolutionary leaders.

OK, maybe Block doesn’t do the part about drifting around Vladimir Lenin, but nonetheless it’s still pretty cool.

Although all are mighty fine driftsters in their own right, American Tuerck stands above them as the most qualified, having taken three victories in the hotly contested Formula Drift.

The plan came together courtesy of Bluss, who hails from Latvia, the country in which the video was filmed.

The cars include two supercharged BMWs and a Nissan 350Z fitted with a twin-turbo V8, with all good for more than 590kW.

The trio is now wondering where they will venture for their next video.

We have a suggestion. Ironically, once Australian carmaking is well and truly done and dusted this time next year, with both Holden and Toyota to join Ford on the Aussie-made scrapheap, the lads will have no shortage of abandoned factories to traverse.

If all else fails, though, we were thinking maybe the Sydney Opera House, but then again as Ken Block has shown, NSW police might not like that very much.