IDC rd5 Japfest aftertaughts

[Boguey001]

So what did everyone think? I was skeptical heading down considering the layout of the track hadn'd changed, taught it would just be a rerun of rd1, only made it down for super lap but holy shit the level of drifting was just awesome, brian eagans entry on the clutch was just amazing, runs of the day for me, even though they didnt win the battles was duane mc keevers chase run on martin french and alan mc cords chase run against james deane were the most entertaining of the day, pity about the mistakes. Good to see dmac back on form along with barry leonard, savage driving from him.
Rain and cold kinda ruined yesterday but well done to all the drivers involved, future looks very bright with all the rookies coming through, felt for diamurd o connell, taught he was going to pull of the championship win till his single mistake.
Show and shine had some nice jap cars in it to, better than last years i taught, but did anyone else think the stunt driving was just alot of diffing?
Roll on 2014.

[D.Daly]

God terry grant loves hoops.lol
But ya yesterday was a dose with the rain, today was awesome! Delighted for barry leonard he was driving out of his skin! Chris Doyle was unbelievable too!
Shame the ps13 was handling odd all weekend for ffrenchy but that's the joys of it I suppose. Ya Egan was so entertaining as always!love those ssr's sooo much on that little 86.
brilliant weekend was had, sickened the season is over, excited about 2014!

[LarZ]

I travelled up yesterday only. Drifting seemed to be of an awesome standard. I know the track is challenging and I'd love to be able to drive the track, but from a spectator point of view i'm just a little bored of it. Lots of breaks and that made it cumbersome and i left early.

Some lovely cars on show, but also some serious shit boxes. But the standard in general was a lot better than last year. I'd love to see a bit more organisation in the pits. It really looks like people just showed up and set up wherever they wanted. There was no flow to it. The only 'organised' cars on show seemed to be the sakura squad, and they actually had some really cool cars.

The Doyle bros are heroes, I'm sickened I missed Saturday.

[BrevGTV]

Savage display of driftin, people on der feet in da grand stand most of da time

Highlight was mcarthys m3 passin da grand stand wit mcnamaras quarter panel stuck in da wing, seriously good entertainment in driftin yday, , fair play to them

[Dori88]

Frenchs car is just an absolute beast - id gladly have the noise of it as my alarm every morning - serious serious entries also - man was the most entertaining out there yesterday by a country mile

Serious talent in this country compared to others - They should really push the IDC and try to bring over some more big drivers from abroad

Anyone that has pictures - get them up

There was some serious SHITE in the show n shine as always - stuff that wasnt even good enough for the field - but on the other side of the coin there were some amazing machines there too

Best car of the show and shine for me IMO was Ross Irwins FC - such an awesome piece of metal

this is the only pic i can find of it at the min but im sure there will be others poppin up in the next few days

[NoelB]

Only travelled down yesterday but damn the driving was unbeleiveable. Best I've ever seen at an event. Ffrench was pushing hard as ever, and dont think Ive ever seen James Deane push so aggressive. Amazing ta watch. But for me the best were Brian Egan and Chris Doyle. Brians double clutch entry was lunatic stuff.

Cars in the paddock was an improvement on before but definately a lot of shite still there. Dori88's 180sx was looking savage as well as Marty's. Some cool s2k's and one or two really nice civics around too (feel in love with the MNP sir).

Gladly not as many scumbags around this time, although still a few, think I only got the smeel of weed 2 or 3 times lol Seemed ta be an awful lot of familes at it yesterday which just goes ta show the growth of the sport into the mainstream in the last year or so.

Well done ta David Egan and all the team for getting the grandstand the most excited I've ever seen it. Hard job ta do it was a great atmosphere in the grandstand for the Top 16 onwards.

[D.Daly]

I absolutely fell in love with this d1 style jxz100! So awesome, the only thing letting it down are the miesters imo, would love to see it with huge antricide xd9s.

[JohnRaff]

^^^^^ yeah i loved that, just hate the molded in arches too... Bronze cst's or something would be perfect on it

Savage day yesterday, A really sexy display of 180s in the paddock!!
The retro autos crowd and all there ke's were awesome too!
The pair of fc's and the old school fb were also class... Really good display of of road cars, savage improvement to last year!

On track, ffrenchies entrys were crazy, car didnt seem to be working perfectly but still drove like a god. Brian egans clutch kicks were also mad.. Well done to everyone.
thank fuck he weather wasnt too bad.

[nikkisixx69]

drifting was awesome, love watching martin ffrenchs entries in that ps13!! brian egans (trixta) 4th gear clutch kick entry was insane, so good to watch! loved how chris doyle made it into the finals, was awesome seeing that skyline taking on the big boys!

as for the show and shine, apologies for not having a DI stand this year, but the last couple of weeks have been flat out for me

but there was some serious cars on display, highlights for me was the 98 corolla with the cb ariel and the sticker on the rear window saying "when the clutch drops, the bullshit stops" or the black completely standard 99 toyota avensis. the bar been raised to crazy new heights by these cars

on a serious note about the show cars, i had my german friend over with me who was taking picture for a german blog, he couldnt beleive the standard of cars on display, he said in germany you wouldnt get cars this good unless they came from ireland originally, he was so excited to see all the 180's, chasers and ae86's as these cars are seriously rare over there (3 ae86's in all of germany, 2 chasers lol) he also said the level of drifting is miles ahead of germany

great night out with everyone, we had a serious crew in the priest college this year, how we didnt get fired out is a miracle, mantra was full of lol's , dont remember much of the end but i did meet your man from the green mile.

[conrod]

Haha I also saw that corolla , some people need a good slap
As for the show And shine I seem about 30-40 cars that deserved to be in there the rest were scrap , they definitely need to regulate on who gets into the paddock

Drifting was unreal only for the foam at the barrier frenchy would have been fairly sore today I'd say , Barry Lenoard was driving awesome all day Aswell and love the sound off DMAC and mike fitzs cars rotary rev is unbeatable