cheers mick, im big fan of swanie max attack style he s liable to do anything, im sorry to part wid the liner shes a good aul yoke to go, back to the sr for me:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick K
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cheers mick, im big fan of swanie max attack style he s liable to do anything, im sorry to part wid the liner shes a good aul yoke to go, back to the sr for me:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick K
Jaysus lads did ye see Robbie Daly,Hes some boy,Was flyin on Saturday,Some Go in that car!
Anyone got any pics or vids from friday??
Which car?? Not the green/blue liner??Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick K
white 13 sponsered by jap performance
bob junior was flying alrte lol, very unluckey not to qualify, cant get the gremlins out of that car:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mick K
Good weekend i agree with not knowing when cars were coming and missing them..was there fri + sat wit my car wasnt pulling great, miss fire, cracked manifold and need spacers on rack keept locking the steering on full lock=spin spin spin first event tho so get it sorted for next time:D if anyone was there friday and seen D.Healy????????? That lad is SAVAGE talent prob done some the best runs I seen all weekend ????????????
Pretty Awesome weekend IMO....
Cant comment on any of the judging because i couldnt see it from where i was but the re run of the Alan v Gavin battle was the fairest decision that could be made in the circumstances....
Delighted the weather held off and at times was nervous watching some of those entries... Soooooo fast!!
Huge congrats to Nigel... Delighted for ya!
On a social point of view unfortunately Nixon ropped me into Time but had a SERIOUS nite... Met a few people here by a food stand Bt cant remember who :) Hahaha twas some laff!!!
Roll on City west i said!!!
Oh and my 2 fav drivers of the day Chris Brady and Donal Garry....
Super stuff from everyone involved!
WOW!! What a weekend!
It started by not sleeping on thursday night finishing off the 180 (thanks again Willis!!) and straight upto the DriftJam to see how it drives!
Was a bit hairy and all over the place on friday but by the end of the weekend i got more and more comfortable with the car and managed to get 1st place in Amatuers in my first ever PD competition!
The Team Comp was a great idea and attracted alot of attention, team N.I were unreal, fair play to ya's!
Myself and Gem tried smashing monster cans off the barriers with our team but only ended up smacking the cars, ha!
Great weekend, great weather and great turnout.. And thanks to all that tagged the bonnet at the di stand, its going up on the wall in the HQ!
Big congrats to Nigel on the win, and to James Deane for an unreal performance!
Roll on City West!!!
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Originally Posted by PdDan
thats bullshit dan
cant be hit from behind.
non contact sport.
leadin driver sets the pace,second driver shadows.
END OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
Im not going into an argument here dude.... There was a reason for the contact.... Spectators couldnt see that as it was before the cars came into visability.Quote:
Originally Posted by barryl
did any1 take a red jack from the pits on friday???
Thought it went off well drifting woz top drawer....
plz do explain ted! or pm meQuote:
Originally Posted by PdDan
well done to every one today great driving by every one think the judgin was a bit funny but any way. also well done to alan tird place aint bad:)
What a weekend!!! Yeah def chris ye'll have to come down more often, not afraid to rub dat wall:) Entry speeds was just class.... Lovely track lay out:)
to be honest i was disappointed with most of sat and sunday!!!! for a start der was only a commentator on the sat for about 10mins after dat nothin!! no one knew wat was goin on who had gone tru, who the drivers wer nothin!! and to be fair there wer so may drivers on sat i belive every single one deserves a blow up of some sort on the mic!!! as for judging i felt tru out sat they wer very fair and der was a couple of hard calls but most were easy enough!!!
as for today it was al over the place i felt alan was utter and totally robbed as barry said above lead car sets the pace and its up to the second car to fall behind if the second car fails to do so which seems to be what is been implied then it was gavins fault plain and simple!!!! its not a race to the finsh line one car leads one car follows!!! the judges had no idea wat way to call it all they wanted was the easiest way out not carein who got the shaft as long as they got less agro for it!! and der was at least one more call after this for a run it again when der was already a clear victor of the battle!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by barryl
Well said dan:D
Was a great day of drifting
Imo Sinnott was should have won super lap his entry was backwards thats what we want to see.
Fair play to Carpo though
Gem you lunatic very nice driving balls to the wall stuff,
Quad drifting what genius.Who came up with that? Hope they keep it for CW
Unreal stuff by the Northern lads
Love the DI stand a mass of cable ties and cracked bumpers go on ye lunatics
Judges didnt do a bad job few questionable calls especially as said Sinnott being hit from behind but shit happens
Well deserved win for Colfer car looks sick lad
Also Fair play to John Paul McCarty great work to get the car out for round 2 and to Donal Garry unreal dedication to have the car back out and driving well
Ok... Firstly the judges cant see the main straight and its the same with Mondello so they realli hugely on the 2 marshalls at the start line for keeping them informed on any events....
Coming down the main straight gavins nose was edgeding alondside alans quarter as was the case with 90 per cent of the top 16 battles with drivers making big straightline entries....
In this case as they were about to initiate alan drastically fired the car rite leaving Gavin stuck to a barrier (not actualli hitting it but certainly greatly impeding his entry pretty much causing the spin)...
When looking back at previous entry speeds this particular run was pretty slow.. Making it look bad for Alan, Almost like he was sandbagging as they say.... Now before i get abuse im not saying alan was it just coulda seemed that way....
After talking to Alan after he said he was having problems getting grip off the line so maybe thats why he didn get up to the usual speed...
Now while the big delay occured where the judges were trying to get all the info and make a call i made an error... Having been told the track was clear another message came over the radio which i mistakingly thought said release the cars... So i released them on their 2nd run... This run was not counted as the judges were still deciding and as the cars finished they came to their conclussion...
Basically to run them again as they couldnt see and going by third party info they had to make a call....
I had no say in this, I just gave them the facts of what happened ... There was also a number of drivers at the 1st bend and their opinions were asked and of the 12 or so they were split 50-50 and who was wrong and rite so then the judges made their call....
All im doing here is giving the facts so now ye can draw ye'r own conclussions...
I think it was a hard call to make to be honest and dont really no whether twas rite r wrong...
Agree 100% ted, if you did'nt know the car/driver ya had no idea who it was, also nobody knew who went through on saturday due to no commentator which was a pitty... Friday/saturday was fair sweet other than the above :)Quote:
Originally Posted by danmoorhead
What I thought the worst thing for the judges to do to sinnott today was when the 2 lads were infront of the judges stand and they got the crowd to cheer for who they should put through and when they said sinnott the place let out the biggest shout of the day , sinnott was clearly delighted with himself as you could see him smiling from a mile off but then the judges turned back on their word and made them go again . All of us felt awful bad for alan at this point as that was a horrible thing to do. If they were gonna run it again , grand , just do it , dont make it a big deal that the crowd are gonna cheer for who goes through then go back on their word. That really pissed me off and everyone around us about the judges !!
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Originally Posted by PdDan
fair play dan!
would luv see some footage.
cmon peeps,surely someone has a clip for us!
Fucking locko saturday.... commentator was shiiiiite! Would have liked to know who went through at least!
Sunday was the job! bigger crowd but some questionable judging
I recorded 53 videos today , have basically every round except a few in the middle where I stopped for a break :pQuote:
Originally Posted by barryl
Also have the trains including the di one.
Will post them up in the morning when photobucket decides to start working for me again.
Had a pretty windy and cold at times view but it was pretty good (on a metal box attached to a trailer :cool:)
great weekend so glad i travelled up for sat and sunday. soe quality driftin.
nigel was so deserving of the win gavin drove great all weekend althought the incident wit alan had me confused didnt no who was rite or wrong
the drivers i taught wer outstanding were
larry love that guy has serious talent he was unreal
gavin lenihan was solid all weekend
nigey. wat can b said he gets better an better everytime my yoyos on him to win the championship
First off it was an truley EXCELLENT weekend from start to finish!
I think the afterthought thread of Fermoy must have given PD some idea's and fair play for trying them and improving the event.
My car went faultless all weekend so im happy, not 100% happy with my driving and grip is one issue i have.
Its hard to pick on form drivers the weekend because there were so many
Chris Brady really impressed me as i never saw him before, great driver!
Larry Love saturday especailly had some of the best runs of the weekend
Barry Leonard super result, well deserved.
Delighted for Nigel on the win, keep up the good work
The thing that makes the drift events so enjoyable imo is the friendly nature of the competitors, everyone just wants to have the craic and help eachother out which is brilliant to see.
Cant wait for Citywest
heard there was serious action in the hotel rooms aswell:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
i have to say realy enjoyed saterday,,geat banter with the lads,, congrats to barry well deserved on fire all day,, chis brady i though was a very agressive diver on the exit cone all day,, also a huge to the lads running the justjap on the cars franky, kev, chucky, dan,, nice to see it out there,,jay man fair play pushin so hard fist day out,, roll on citywest ill have the 13 out fingers crossed
Exactly my take on it!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by barryl
Is this ProDrift's official word on it from a starting marshall judging it or just your opinion Dan? Genuine questionQuote:
Originally Posted by PdDan
:D:D:D:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by bart
Some weekend! Got an hours sleep thursday, was up on fri for driftjam and was there till the end on sunday!
Well done to Jay for taking home some silverness in his first event!
I dont know how its still going on, but what the f*ck is the story with the lack of organisation up on the PD judging tower?? A few times i found myself shouting out 'get on with it' as myself and ALOT of others around were getting bored of 1 minute drifting 10 minutes talking absolutebolox. At least let us know why theres a delay? Sunday evenening was shocking for it realy, i just couldnt wait for it to be finished so we could stop listening to them on the pa system.
Team drift event just SHOWS how things are getting too tame/boring in regualr events, as the crowd the team drifting even pulled was insane! EVERYBODY in the place was up against the barriers! Fair play to all of the teams, in fairnes everyone was trying hard! I think it should seriously be a catagory in future as it was seriously exciting!
Mick k, despite a photo of him not existing and him being a dick on here : ,hes actualy a real person and a good man to have a chat with! ha
Actualy one more thing regarding certain websites 'models'...they should let them eat. horrible!
yes,We discussed this,Big dinners for the moths FTW in futureQuote:
Originally Posted by PeterT
ha ha thats what i said too bacon and cabbage for the girls
Jaysus. Imagine the farts after that. They'd probably smell like the inside of your van did yesterday Damo ya durty bollix!!!
I was only there on Saturday, the organisation of the amateur and non-seeded class seemed poor. They couldn't halve the number of competitors into two groups at all, instead had like 30% of the competitors in one ground and 70% in the other, with the same time allocated for both groups. So group one got 3 times as many laps.
The lack of commentary on Saturday is also a huge loss, nobody has any idea what is going on. I also think the after each qualifying run the score should be given, maybe on a screen at the back of the judge tower, or else announced. They have it typed into the laptop, so not hard to show it on a screen somewhere for people to see!
Would be better for the crowd and would give people a good idea of how people are performing. If they need help putting a system in place to do it, I help out with it wouldn't be too hard.
And from the way its run with huge delays, I can not see how Citywest with two rounds held in one weekend will work!!!
ive a feeling that this is just going to be a pure nightmare... :oQuote:
Originally Posted by ontherack
Saturday ran smoothly I think & great to see such a huge entry. Was a pity to have no commentry. Its a simple thing to organise & would have been nice for the croud to know who & what was going on. From a drivers point of view it would be great to have had a cone on the tear drop to see where your clipping point is. It got pushed off to the side at one stage & there is remained for the afternoon.
Sunday
I firstly have a massive issue with the Lenihan v Sinnott decision. First of all it is always said to us that it is a NON CONTACT SPORT. Cars are to start a battle side by side to a certain point (cone) where one car leads and the other falls behind to follow. The following car is to mirror the lead car.
Should he not have been behind Alan.Quote:
Originally Posted by PdDan
First of all its up the the lead driver to take what line he likes and the following driver should adapt to the lead drivers entry speed. Gavin should not have been beside Alan in the first place. He was in the total incorrect position for initiation and the marks can be seen on Alans front wing & we all saw his front bumper falling off. Contact from following driver. 10 Nil simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by PdDan
The judges gave a 10 nil decision & then because of complaints the decide to rerun it all over again. Sher if we look hard enough we will find pros & cons in every run. Does that mean we are gonna rerun them all again just because one party is not happy.
Another very unfair decision I felt was the 2nd last battle between James & Nigel. Both drivers were really on form & made for fantastic drifting but on James following run he was literally inches from Nigels car on almost every part of the run. Nigel following was text book drifting but clearly not as close as James. How that is deemed a rerun I dont know. Even Kieran Hynes made the judgement in favour of James & Kieran is a harsh judge.
Ive seen drifting all over the world & its not often you see a chase car so close for the whole run without contact.
Im not taking sides by my comments or trying to get at anybody Im only giving my opinion on my understanding of the rules & what I saw. Lets see who agrees or not.
Fair play & well done to Nigel for the win.
Its a pity the weekend ended up with as much tension & controversy.
Oh & train drifting FTW :)
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Originally Posted by ontherack
Thats because 75% of the competitors didnt bother their arse to be ready on track at 9am for the first group.
There was a que of cars waiting to go out in the first group and weren't left out, as they said they was enough in the first group!