Konstantīns Calko (born 13 April 1994) is a Latvian auto racing driver. He is the first Latvian racing driver to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Racing career Clako began his career in 2001 in karting. Since then he became numerous Latvian champion in various karting categories. In 2011 he switched to the Baltic Touring Car Championship. The next year, Calko raced in Radical European Masters and secured Champion title in Supersports category as well took World Vice-Champion title in DD2 category in Rotax Grand Finals held in Portimao In 2013, Calko made his World Touring Car Championship debut with Campos Racing driving a SEAT León WTCC in the last round in Macau.
In February 2015, it was announced that Calko would make his European Le Mans Series debut with SVK by Speed Factory driving a Ginetta LMP3. He finished season on third.
In 2017, Calko fulfilled his life dream and competed in 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans race with ARC Bratislava, although technical failures with the car prevented to reach high results. After few months later in Asian Le Mans Series 2017/2018 season, together with the same team, Calko finished third in championship.
In 2018, Calko, together with Red Camel Jordans team, won the Creventic 24H Silverstone both overall and in the TCE class.
Racing record
Complete World Touring Car Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race; races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races; * signifies that driver led race for at least one lap – 1 point given all races)
Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 DC Pts 2013 Campos Racing SEAT León WTCC ITA1 ITA2 MAR1 MAR2 SVK1 SVK2 HUN1 HUN2 AUT1 AUT2 RUS1 RUS2 POR1 POR2 ARG1 ARG2 USA1 USA2 JPN1 JPN2 CHN1 CHN2 MAC129† MAC2 NC 0 † Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 2017 ARC Bratislava Miro Konôpka Rik Breukers Ligier JS P217-Gibson LMP2 314 45th 19th
References
External links