Prodrift Rd 2 Afterthoughts

[PeterT]

Some weekend! Got an hours sleep thursday, was up on fri for driftjam and was there till the end on sunday!

Well done to Jay for taking home some silverness in his first event!

I dont know how its still going on, but what the f*ck is the story with the lack of organisation up on the PD judging tower?? A few times i found myself shouting out 'get on with it' as myself and ALOT of others around were getting bored of 1 minute drifting 10 minutes talking absolutebolox. At least let us know why theres a delay? Sunday evenening was shocking for it realy, i just couldnt wait for it to be finished so we could stop listening to them on the pa system.

Team drift event just SHOWS how things are getting too tame/boring in regualr events, as the crowd the team drifting even pulled was insane! EVERYBODY in the place was up against the barriers! Fair play to all of the teams, in fairnes everyone was trying hard! I think it should seriously be a catagory in future as it was seriously exciting!

Mick k, despite a photo of him not existing and him being a dick on here : ,hes actualy a real person and a good man to have a chat with! ha

[PeterT]

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

[Mick K]

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

yes,We discussed this,Big dinners for the moths FTW in future

[damo86]

ha ha thats what i said too bacon and cabbage for the girls

[Greg]

Jaysus. Imagine the farts after that. They'd probably smell like the inside of your van did yesterday Damo ya durty bollix!!!

[ontherack]

I was only there on Saturday, the organisation of the amateur and non-seeded class seemed poor. They couldn't halve the number of competitors into two groups at all, instead had like 30% of the competitors in one ground and 70% in the other, with the same time allocated for both groups. So group one got 3 times as many laps.

The lack of commentary on Saturday is also a huge loss, nobody has any idea what is going on. I also think the after each qualifying run the score should be given, maybe on a screen at the back of the judge tower, or else announced. They have it typed into the laptop, so not hard to show it on a screen somewhere for people to see!

Would be better for the crowd and would give people a good idea of how people are performing. If they need help putting a system in place to do it, I help out with it wouldn't be too hard.

And from the way its run with huge delays, I can not see how Citywest with two rounds held in one weekend will work!!!

[bart]

And from the way its run with huge delays, I can not see how Citywest with two rounds held in one weekend will work!!!

ive a feeling that this is just going to be a pure nightmare...

[wezwkd]

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.

Coming down the main straight gavins nose was edgeding alondside alans quarte

Should he not have been behind Alan.

In this case as they were about to initiate alan drastically fired the car rite leaving Gavin stuck to a barrier (not actualli hitting it but certainly greatly impeding his entry pretty much causing the spin)...

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.

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

[wezwkd]

They couldn't halve the number of competitors into two groups at all, instead had like 30% of the competitors in one ground and 70% in the other, with the same time allocated for both groups. So group one got 3 times as many laps.

Thats because 75% of the competitors didnt bother their arse to be ready on track at 9am for the first group.

[ontherack]

There was a que of cars waiting to go out in the first group and weren't left out, as they said they was enough in the first group!