Prodrift Rnd 2 Fermoy 2011 Afterthoughts

[markII-90]

What a weekend !

Was stressed out on friday still getting my cage welded in at half 4 and then a mad dash down to fermoy to get the car logged which I just about made.

Saturday didnt start off to good as on my first practice runs I went the wrong way around cones and made a balls of things, couple more runs out and I finally got the hang of things. My first qualyifyin run went good but on my second run the intercooler pipe came off which resulted in a zero score!
I was convinced I hadnt made the top 32 and was suprised to make it in at 27.. So I went and sorted out the issue with the jubilee clip on the pipe or atleast I thought I had it sorted out , was up against John hickey in the battles and our first run was good but on the way back in the pipe came off AGAIN so I used the 5minute rule but had no tools to sort it out, fair play to gem who came runnin over to help and we used a key to try and tighten the clip back on which held for about a second and blew off again, so that was me out !

Was delighted to get the chance to go out for the team drift on the sunday ( cheers to brian egan for the call )

Have to say aswel that dave egan makes the events with his commentary on all the drivers and there cars, fair play dude ..

Roll on punchestown for another weekend of epic driving.

[Jay Rockett]

Firstly, i have to give it to PD for a great weekend.. Everything was on time and organised and even allowed for a little more practise time for the Ama/Non-seeded.. I heard alot of great feedback from drivers over the weekend praising the event!

Secondly it was my WORST weekend in PD, loosing to Gem in my first twin battle of the day was enough to bring me to tears.. Ha, not really, but i WAS pissed off!!!

Delighted Willis settled into the car, now that it has the power to spin the wheels, i thought he really had a fighting chance against Brendan Stone only for an unfortunate spin, Willis was eliminated!

The rest of the battles on Sat really showed how the level of tallent is improving at a massive rate in Irish Drifting, and i have to congratulate Pat Masterson with such a performance on the day!
Sunday was great as usual with the Pro's battling it out, and what makes it better is the fact that its so close between the top drivers, that it ISNT always the same winner! James and Mikes battle was by far the best to watch.. Literally bouncing off eachother!

We need to see more cars rubbing eachother, thats what gets the crowd pumped! We tried in the "driftireland Team Train", seen as we're not as co-ordinated as some of the other Teams, knocking off eachother around the track works better for us! We see it like 'synchronized swimming', its boring to watch.. But if they punched the heads off eachother in the pool instead, we'd watch it!!

Really looking forward to Punchestown and the rest of the season as Fermoy, great an all an event as it was, the next 3 rounds are sure to be a hell of alot more exciting and challenging!

[pmc-drifter]

We need to see more cars rubbing eachother, thats what gets the crowd pumped! We tried in the "driftireland Team Train", seen as we're not as co-ordinated as some of the other Teams, knocking off eachother around the track works better for us! We see it like 'synchronized swimming', its boring to watch.. But if they punched the heads off eachother in the pool instead, we'd watch it!!

In fairness it does look cool alright when half the team are understeering around the place and the other half are spinning and hitting stuff, shows people the real talent involved!!

[SMD-R33]

Defo enjoyed my first prodrift experience even though i snaped 2 drive shafts in 1 go on my first qualifying lap, other than that roll on round 4 in mondello