Pd round 1 afterthoughts

[meego1]

i nominate flat eric,frenchy,brendan stone ,no one could argue about the knowledge between these 3, i dont think the average pd fan who hasnt competed wud have the same impact..

[Dunnedriftin]

i put it to the forum to nominate 3 people who they feel would be qualified to judge such as fast growing sport and wel enquire with pd about getting them involed somehow...

im not bitching about nothing but if i was to pick 3 people to see on the judging stand at a event it would be the following imo!

Damien Mulvey
Martin Ffrench
Eric o sullivan

i think there well experieced in the drift scene & recon they would be able to make fair decent decisions...

[Prodrifter86]

Darren qualified first on saturday and then hit the wall hard on his second run. He did his best today but the car was about a foot shorter on one side causing it to steer like a shopping trolley, I think its fair to blame the car for his two spins in top 16.

Overall I think it was a brilliant event to start the year off.You can never keep everyone happy and to be honest I didn't agree with some of the judging either but I know how hard it is for PD to even get judges and I respect the lads decisions.

I dunno what was up with the crowd but even in the pits there seemed to be very little going on, i think its due to only 16 cars being around on sunday. Saturday was absolute madness with cars everywhere and there was a great atmosphere around, maybe have pro qualifying on sunday morning instead ???

Driving was superb, so many lads have stepped up their game big time and although James was amazing today I think he'll have his work cut out to claim another title.

I know there was some words had at the drivers briefing about lines and walls etc, how do the rest of you boys feel about all that as I only spoke to a couple about it. Do you prefer running close to walls out wide ?. Would you have preferred there to be no passing so you could run the walls and just have to follow the lead car instead of defending your line or deciding to make a pass ????

What about spectators, which would you lot prefer to be watching ???

thought the track was good as a spectator!,cudnt follow the judges fully at all a bit weird! i thought was grand today and you cant reli say much about him as his car handeled like a wheelbarrow and so what if the lads are all from cork james and darren are two class drivers!! but the judges decisions are made and thats it! the sound system was not great at times aswell! as a spectator i think passing should be the name of the game! during alan sinnotts run when he tried to pass and i think passed the crowds voices rose a gud bit ! but during the runs we were the only 5 people to be shouting alan on to win! haha! but i iive for a savage pass during a drift battle!!!!and wall tagging is favourite with spectators and myself! with those both included aswell! there was also a reli gud crowd but to be honset it wont touch a round that i was at in good old rosegreen! and no other PD track will touch rosegreen for athmosphere!! in rosegreen ur standing right on the track and you can feel the wind of the cars coming past your face! and every1 is in together in the little shed and around to the big shed which makes for great banter! and also the drivers need to be more sort of upbeat and happy when they eithier finish a run or get out of the car on the track and get the crowd going!!!! not just difting back to the pits etc.. like as it was said eariler people like ffrenchie and johnny p and also miguel marini are needed to liven things up! those lads were crazy after runs!

also for the MC: he needs to be more exciting! he not doing a bad job at all but he needs to be like for eg. (like a soccer match when some1 goes to score a goal the commentar wud raise his voice and get reli excited which makes the viewer reli excited! also some said it was a pitty that no1 stayed around for the prize giving , well most of my friends left cuz there were nearly burnt to a crisp! haha but i stayed aorund for a chat with wez and the alan and the boys and because i was in my 1tr corsa we hit the road just in case we didnt make it home! hahahhaha lol! but all in all a good event and its nice to get back into the drifting scene after the winter break! and congrats to every1 who qualified and best of luck to every1 for round 2!!

[MarkoC]

Sry il bring it up here but ...

I remember how the judging worked in Ice skating, similar to drift id say ?
Id say its a very similar judging here.

Figure skating was formerly judged on a 6.0 scale.

Oh and i cant remember seeing the judge difference more than 1 point in 6 points scale, and then it was more likely political thing (simphaty). Usually it was within 0.5 points.

So can anyone tell me please, hows the drift actually judged ?
How can it be 4 points difference in 10 points scale between 2 judges ?
Oh and dont tell please that ice skating is easier to judge lol ...

Cheers

[gem-s13]

i personally think 90% of whats said here is a load of balls i watched all day sunday i seen a good few mistakes from drivers that were not comented on from the judges but thats life!! lets all face it james, darren and the lads are all from cork they no each other very well so fucking what, the 2 boys can drive we all no that they both drive in fd so there is no reson why they would need help from the judges to qualify even if it was there, if thats the case they may tell the lads they cant drive here anymore because they are to good and it looks bad if they win!!

on the thing "judges need to go" saying they are puting there favorats thats just balls you see it that way bacause your favorate didnt go trough, my opinion i dont like some calls but lets just get on with it

the way i would like to see it changed this year would be a guest judge at each round eric was up there on sunday so it wouldnt have been a big deal for them to give him a seat and let score on the runs, 4 rounds left easy to get 4 people to do it ffrench for example,

and the number one thing to do is get rid of that fucking dope john gibbons!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nixon001]

im not bitching about nothing but if i was to pick 3 people to see on the judging stand at a event it would be the following imo!

Damien Mulvey
Martin Ffrench
Eric o sullivan

i think there well experieced in the drift scene & recon they would be able to make fair decent decisions...

None of them want to do it! its a horrible job!

eric already said in this thread how much of a hard job it is and that he wudnt do it...

[meego1]

damien mulvey aint going to cause he s back in the game, but id say eric and frenchie wid a bit of persuasion wud do it, eric is at the events anyway. other drivers not competing but wud still possibly hav an interest declan munnely, johnatan murphy,glen maher, billy nolan, buttsey, johhny p,, theirs loads of options but everyone knows its never gona change..

[Prodrifter86]

start the bring back morris campaign me think,im gettn sick of gibbons asken same stupid question ,{ do drivers use 5min rule on purpose] drives me nuts, either get tommy and hector in,wudnt hav a clue but they be funny none the less lol

please dont bring back that lad! he's so annoying! i remember in rosegreen he kept shouting : whos wants james deane to win or who wants martin french to win and then some1 shouted out : who wants morris to shut the f,u.k up??? and the whole place went crazy!!!!! he's a noisy dope ! (sorry morris)

[gem-s13]

damien mulvey aint going to cause he s back in the game, but id say eric and frenchie wid a bit of persuasion wud do it, eric is at the events anyway. other drivers not competing but wud still possibly hav an interest declan munnely, johnatan murphy,glen maher, billy nolan, buttsey, johhny p,, theirs loads of options but everyone knows its never gona change..

ha johhny deffo would not do it he hardly said 2 words on the mic when he was up for super lap in ennis last year so i couldnt see him being comfterble doing it french yes he loves to talk

[Prodrifter86]

well to be honest if i had to pick in the morining a new set of judges i wud pick:

Billy Nolan
frenchie
johnny p


those 3 wud be good judges and gud crack!
( and im not getting into the row over the judges, thats just my opinion on who id pick for the rest of the year if i had to)