prodrift

[Frankae86]

Its a balls that our fun is going to be governed by the amount of spectators.
you hear people saying "oh drifting is the fastest growing sport in the world" and all this stuff about its taken the country by storm. So where are all the people and what are they doing?

I was at D-rift today and the crowd was shocking, the weather wasnt great today but the turn out was very dissapointing. Also the level of drivers was down on previous events.

[paddymcgrath]

s13-ste, PD Hoodies have never been €80, they were €30 like always, could of been dodgey hand writing but whatever, common sense should prevail before making hilariously inaccurate assumptions just to create some controversy.

It is cheaper to enter a PD event than any of the UK events and when you look at EDC who don't even run a qualifying session anymore (names out of a hat system), PD is the premier drift series in Europe, bar none. BDC would probably be second even though they bill themselves as a sort of semi-pro series, the atmosphere and balls out driving is what the UK drift scene needed about five years ago.

2009 has been and is still tough for everyone, but I say fair play to all the competitors who still show up and support Irish drifting by driving the balls of their cars at every event and improving after every run. Graham is probably the most under-thanked person in Irish & UK drifting, he created from nothing one of the most recognised drift series on the planet and brought Irish drifting to the fore of the world scene. Unless you've worked behind the scenes, I don't think many people can appreciate how much work goes into each event, let alone an entire season ...

Prodrift is here to stay.

[lsd32]

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well said paddy

lads we need to support and help all our home grown drift series casue without them what the hell have we???????back to steeto?????prodrfit is probably one of the most professional outfits we will ever see and thats not cheap!!but when competing or even spectating i think its dam good value for money with the tracks that are laid out for us and everything down to the stickers...top class!!!!!

starting rumours and such is not going to help with sponsors and getiing more spectators to events and i for one invest every spare penny as do most drivers just to get to the events as a drift community we need everyone here to be less negative and help drive drifting in ireland along

rant over

[conorosr20]

s13-ste, PD Hoodies have never been €80, they were €30 like always, could of been dodgey hand writing but whatever, common sense should prevail before making hilariously inaccurate assumptions just to create some controversy.

It is cheaper to enter a PD event than any of the UK events and when you look at EDC who don't even run a qualifying session anymore (names out of a hat system), PD is the premier drift series in Europe, bar none. BDC would probably be second even though they bill themselves as a sort of semi-pro series, the atmosphere and balls out driving is what the UK drift scene needed about five years ago.

2009 has been and is still tough for everyone, but I say fair play to all the competitors who still show up and support Irish drifting by driving the balls of their cars at every event and improving after every run. Graham is probably the most under-thanked person in Irish & UK drifting, he created from nothing one of the most recognised drift series on the planet and brought Irish drifting to the fore of the world scene. Unless you've worked behind the scenes, I don't think many people can appreciate how much work goes into each event, let alone an entire season ...

Prodrift is here to stay.

Well said lad. This year has been tough on everyone,like most of the drivers are trades men or have something to do with that line of work.And all them jobs are being wiped out on a daily basis.....I know my job isnt secure i can only take one day at a time!And on that basis its hard for drivers,crowds etc to fund doing and attending these events.Hopefully we will have another few years of prodrift and d-rift.And our irish drivers abroad hopefully doing better And the lucky few who will defo get a break to go there too eventually! Rant over

[Chuck_g]

Really hope this aint true as next year i will be going at it full wack..........if things do go bad tho il start up my own series!! Poverty series irl, entrys taken on Wednesdays, will settle for a good song!

[podge]

de amount of seat time sucks at prodrift events thou towards the uk i didnt start tis as a rumour heard it mentioned a few times now at tis stage

[conorosr20]

track time is practice day time,an event isnt a practice day.Esp not with the usual entries and the time limit.

[Administrator]

s13-ste, PD Hoodies have never been €80, they were €30 like always, could of been dodgey hand writing but whatever, common sense should prevail before making hilariously inaccurate assumptions just to create some controversy.

It is cheaper to enter a PD event than any of the UK events and when you look at EDC who don't even run a qualifying session anymore (names out of a hat system), PD is the premier drift series in Europe, bar none. BDC would probably be second even though they bill themselves as a sort of semi-pro series, the atmosphere and balls out driving is what the UK drift scene needed about five years ago.

2009 has been and is still tough for everyone, but I say fair play to all the competitors who still show up and support Irish drifting by driving the balls of their cars at every event and improving after every run. Graham is probably the most under-thanked person in Irish & UK drifting, he created from nothing one of the most recognised drift series on the planet and brought Irish drifting to the fore of the world scene. Unless you've worked behind the scenes, I don't think many people can appreciate how much work goes into each event, let alone an entire season ...

Prodrift is here to stay.

Amen to that. And well said, straight from the horses mouth.

I'll gladly fork out €20 for a days entertainment and to watch what we all claim to love! Plus I'm sure that feck all of that is actual profit when everything is taken into consideration, insurance, staff, advertising etc.

I'd urge everyone to head along to as many events as possible to make sure the humours are put to bed as quickly as they arose. If PD ever stop it'll be a dark dark day for the sport.

[s13-ste]

s13-ste, PD Hoodies have never been €80, they were €30 like always, could of been dodgey hand writing but whatever, common sense should prevail before making hilariously inaccurate assumptions just to create some controversy..

like i said i think i saw them at €80. as you said it could have been dodgy hand writing. i didn't say it just to create some controversy as i wouldn't be surprised at all. every stand a shows charges sill prices for products so why would it be strange for PD to do the same.

[podge]

track time is practice day time,an event isnt a practice day.Esp not with the usual entries and the time limit.

how come the bdc can afford to run so uch pratice time then and as such theres no where really to pratice in ireland much bar watergrasshill some mondays and mondello every month or two