prodrift barriers

[nigey00]

oh and another thing if there was a wall of tyres around the barriers it would be worse, FACT!!!

any rub on a tyre wall will upset the car waay more and drag the whole car into the barrier!!!

If your afraid of damaging ur car, dont drive, simple!!!

[peterhouze]

can i ask jeff the fella who started this why he is in prodrift his first time to drift was a punchestown would you not practice somewere before you go into prodrift
ust seems your giveing out about the walls what do you expect not to hit them it was your first 2 times out

[ste]

Agree wit the drivers hundred per cent.. Its a risk ya gotta take if ya don't wanna risk damagin the car stay at home.. From a spectator point of view the wall makes this so so excitin I roared my head off yesterday when lads ran the wall its amazin to watch as a spectator.. Its due to the walls that I class mondello the most borin round in the prodrift schedule..

[jeff nelson sileighty]

oh and another thing if there was a wall of tyres around the barriers it would be worse, FACT!!!

any rub on a tyre wall will upset the car waay more and drag the whole car into the barrier!!!

If your afraid of damaging ur car, dont drive, simple!!!

no see thats not right like im only an amateur and ive only been in punchestown and citywest and both of those times my yoke took a bad smack so im definitly not afraid of damaging the car im just afraid about having the money to repair it afterwards i love the sport and i cant wait for the next time i get the chance to be on the track i just wish there wasnt the problem for young lads like myself of possibly writing off the car

[Administrator]

I also agree with the drivers and is why the Irish drivers are the some of the best in the world. Speaking from my own point of view and nailing a few cones and clips in Goldstone and Nutts in my car there's no better feeling. If the clips were cotton wool I don't think the rush would be half as much.

Drifting is on the edge, do or die and that's the beauty of it!

[jeff nelson sileighty]

ya i suppose yer right im looking forward to the next event i just hadnt been expecting it to be run this way at this stage im just going to go flat ou and that looks like its the only way to do it

[nigey00]

no see thats not right like im only an amateur and ive only been in punchestown and citywest and both of those times my yoke took a bad smack so im definitly not afraid of damaging the car im just afraid about having the money to repair it afterwards i love the sport and i cant wait for the next time i get the chance to be on the track i just wish there wasnt the problem for young lads like myself of possibly writing off the car

Prodrift is one of the top championships in Europe! If u can't run the top tracks practice harder in Mondello or somewhere where you can't damage the car, and get better, then come out and run the Walls!

[jeff nelson sileighty]

Prodrift is one of the top championships in Europe! If u can't run the top tracks practice harder in Mondello or somewhere where you can't damage the car, and get better, then come out and run the Walls!

ya thats what im going to do ill be heading up to goldstone in the next few weeks just to get a bit of practice and ill start to push it from there oh and i think your 180 is looking like a feckin beast nigel

[MikeFitz]

I agree with Nigel and Dan on this one. Every pro driver pays for his own car in this country and it's his or her choice to run the wall, we all saw the consequences of getting it wrong the weekend but thats probably half the thrill of it.

In practice Friday I just wasnt getting the course so the first time the start line was moved back I came in WAAAY too fast, spun, and hit the wall backwards really hard, breaking the bolts which held down the wall and held the sections together and moving the wall 2 feet. I'm lucky my car isnt wrote off, and to be honest at the moment I wouldnt have the bobs to build another at short notice.

But with a bit of pulling we got it driving again and got straight back out, and on the very next run I ran close to my own paint on the wall. I nearly cacked my suit! And every time I came close to the wall all weekend on the entry, it scared the fcuk outta me, but when you get past it, it's the best feeling in the world (well, almost )

And I agree with Darragh, it's things like this that make the Irish drifters what we are

[jeff nelson sileighty]

I agree with Nigel and Dan on this one. Every pro driver pays for his own car in this country and it's his or her choice to run the wall, we all saw the consequences of getting it wrong the weekend but thats probably half the thrill of it.

In practice Friday I just wasnt getting the course so the first time the start line was moved back I came in WAAAY too fast, spun, and hit the wall backwards really hard, breaking the bolts which held down the wall and held the sections together and moving the wall 2 feet. I'm lucky my car isnt wrote off, and to be honest at the moment I wouldnt have the bobs to build another at short notice.

But with a bit of pulling we got it driving again and got straight back out, and on the very next run I ran close to my own paint on the wall. I nearly cacked my suit! And every time I came close to the wall all weekend on the entry, it scared the fcuk outta me, but when you get past it, it's the best feeling in the world (well, almost )

And I agree with Darragh, it's things like this that make the Irish drifters what we are

mike your a fcukin nutter hah but yer right its pushing ourselves that makes the irish drifters so good i just hope that some time i can be up at yer level