Prodrift Rd 2 Afterthoughts

[1jsoarer]

@ pddan, suggest to the pd crew ta get a big screen for scores and entrys for city west!!

[ontherack]

@ pddan, suggest to the pd crew ta get a big screen for scores and entrys for city west!!

Agree can't see why it hasn't been done here before, and will only make it more exciting to watch, as you get know exactly whats going on. I m sure it not too hard to do and have a few ideas on how it could be done easy enough. I will help with it if they want

[Amy G]

Agree can't see why it hasn't been done here before, and will only make it more exciting to watch, as you get know exactly whats going on. I m sure it not too hard to do and have a few ideas on how it could be done easy enough. I will help with it if they want

It costs money thats why they don't have one!

[ontherack]

It wouldn't have to be a huge screen, something like a 19" screen would do, like 100 euro. I would nearly even loan them a screen if they would do it! Place it at the back of the judges' tower pointing down. They could also just announce over the PA system they already have, surely that would be grand, and use a screen at th back with the scores of the last few or the top scores so far, kinda like the D1 qualifying league table.

[damo86]

you can hire them out for peanuts these days same as the ones on the motorways

[Prodrifter86]

@ pddan, suggest to the pd crew ta get a big screen for scores and entrys for city west!!

very good idea! would help alot!

[Prodrifter86]

Actualy one more thing regarding certain websites 'models'...they should let them eat. horrible!

yeah defo lad! some of them were a disgrace!

[Prodrifter86]

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.




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.

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.

totally agree with u there wez on the two bad decisions

it was obvious that alan wasnt at fault and should have been run again

james deane was on nigels arse on that run! but hey at the end of the day we can do fuk all about the stupid judges decisions!

kieran hynes was on the ball on that run !

i seriously think 1 or 2 judges should go and bring two new judges for a round !

[MikeFitz]

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

Here here, even though Nigel was driving perfectly all day and was definately driving well enough to win, from where I was down at the corner it looked like James was stuck to his back bumper for the most of the 2 runs and very slightly pulled away from him when leading. Maybe I missed something because we were down near the start line.
In general I thought it was a good weekend, pity about the controversy. Even though I was standing there, I didnt see what happened between gavin and alan s because I was looking out towards the track when it happened, but maybe it shows that theres a need for a rule from the start line until initiation at tracks where space is tight? This track is unique too because the further to the right you are, the more of a hump you come over, which in turn throws you further to the left when you're coming down off it, which didnt help in the battle in question. It was just a situation which hopefully will never arise again, and if we learn a lesson from it, it wont.
As for the train drifting, oh my god! That was the coolest thing ive ever seen ha ha! Everyone loved it! Hopefully we can make it a regular feature at events! I was stopped at the corner waiting to go out for the parade and all the lads coming back from the train looked like soldiers coming from a battle, they all had the thousand yard stare!
Id just like to say thanks to shane, holly, trevor, jules, sean, and everyone else for changing the box on my car in under an hour to get us back out for the top 16, legends!
And Christys and Nigels cars are both unbelievable.
Bring on CW!

[Aidan Hogan]

I found the hardest video to record was after the trains were done and everyone just came back out and went mental !!
Hadn't a clue which way to point the camera