Prodrift Rd 2 Afterthoughts

[Stevo]

to be honest i was disappointed with most of sat and sunday!!!! for a start der was only a commentator on the sat for about 10mins after dat nothin!! no one knew wat was goin on who had gone tru, who the drivers wer nothin!! and to be fair there wer so may drivers on sat i belive every single one deserves a blow up of some sort on the mic!!!

Agree 100% ted, if you did'nt know the car/driver ya had no idea who it was, also nobody knew who went through on saturday due to no commentator which was a pitty... Friday/saturday was fair sweet other than the above

[Aidan Hogan]

What I thought the worst thing for the judges to do to sinnott today was when the 2 lads were infront of the judges stand and they got the crowd to cheer for who they should put through and when they said sinnott the place let out the biggest shout of the day , sinnott was clearly delighted with himself as you could see him smiling from a mile off but then the judges turned back on their word and made them go again . All of us felt awful bad for alan at this point as that was a horrible thing to do. If they were gonna run it again , grand , just do it , dont make it a big deal that the crowd are gonna cheer for who goes through then go back on their word. That really pissed me off and everyone around us about the judges !!

[barryl]

Ok... Firstly the judges cant see the main straight and its the same with Mondello so they realli hugely on the 2 marshalls at the start line for keeping them informed on any events....

Coming down the main straight gavins nose was edgeding alondside alans quarter as was the case with 90 per cent of the top 16 battles with drivers making big straightline entries....

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)...

When looking back at previous entry speeds this particular run was pretty slow.. Making it look bad for Alan, Almost like he was sandbagging as they say.... Now before i get abuse im not saying alan was it just coulda seemed that way....

After talking to Alan after he said he was having problems getting grip off the line so maybe thats why he didn get up to the usual speed...

Now while the big delay occured where the judges were trying to get all the info and make a call i made an error... Having been told the track was clear another message came over the radio which i mistakingly thought said release the cars... So i released them on their 2nd run... This run was not counted as the judges were still deciding and as the cars finished they came to their conclussion...

Basically to run them again as they couldnt see and going by third party info they had to make a call....

I had no say in this, I just gave them the facts of what happened ... There was also a number of drivers at the 1st bend and their opinions were asked and of the 12 or so they were split 50-50 and who was wrong and rite so then the judges made their call....

All im doing here is giving the facts so now ye can draw ye'r own conclussions...

I think it was a hard call to make to be honest and dont really no whether twas rite r wrong...

fair play dan!
would luv see some footage.
cmon peeps,surely someone has a clip for us!

[tbk]

Fucking locko saturday.... commentator was shiiiiite! Would have liked to know who went through at least!


Sunday was the job! bigger crowd but some questionable judging

[Aidan Hogan]

fair play dan!
would luv see some footage.
cmon peeps,surely someone has a clip for us!

I recorded 53 videos today , have basically every round except a few in the middle where I stopped for a break
Also have the trains including the di one.
Will post them up in the morning when photobucket decides to start working for me again.
Had a pretty windy and cold at times view but it was pretty good (on a metal box attached to a trailer )

[alan180sx]

great weekend so glad i travelled up for sat and sunday. soe quality driftin.
nigel was so deserving of the win gavin drove great all weekend althought the incident wit alan had me confused didnt no who was rite or wrong

the drivers i taught wer outstanding were

larry love that guy has serious talent he was unreal

gavin lenihan was solid all weekend

nigey. wat can b said he gets better an better everytime my yoyos on him to win the championship

[Frankae86]

First off it was an truley EXCELLENT weekend from start to finish!

I think the afterthought thread of Fermoy must have given PD some idea's and fair play for trying them and improving the event.

My car went faultless all weekend so im happy, not 100% happy with my driving and grip is one issue i have.

Its hard to pick on form drivers the weekend because there were so many
Chris Brady really impressed me as i never saw him before, great driver!
Larry Love saturday especailly had some of the best runs of the weekend
Barry Leonard super result, well deserved.

Delighted for Nigel on the win, keep up the good work

The thing that makes the drift events so enjoyable imo is the friendly nature of the competitors, everyone just wants to have the craic and help eachother out which is brilliant to see.

Cant wait for Citywest

[bart]

heard there was serious action in the hotel rooms aswell

[yowdy]

i have to say realy enjoyed saterday,,geat banter with the lads,, congrats to barry well deserved on fire all day,, chis brady i though was a very agressive diver on the exit cone all day,, also a huge to the lads running the justjap on the cars franky, kev, chucky, dan,, nice to see it out there,,jay man fair play pushin so hard fist day out,, roll on citywest ill have the 13 out fingers crossed

[Mick K]

thats bullshit dan
cant be hit from behind.
non contact sport.
leadin driver sets the pace,second driver shadows.
END OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Exactly my take on it!!!

Ok... Firstly the judges cant see the main straight and its the same with Mondello so they realli hugely on the 2 marshalls at the start line for keeping them informed on any events....

Coming down the main straight gavins nose was edgeding alondside alans quarter as was the case with 90 per cent of the top 16 battles with drivers making big straightline entries....

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)...

When looking back at previous entry speeds this particular run was pretty slow.. Making it look bad for Alan, Almost like he was sandbagging as they say.... Now before i get abuse im not saying alan was it just coulda seemed that way....

After talking to Alan after he said he was having problems getting grip off the line so maybe thats why he didn get up to the usual speed...

Now while the big delay occured where the judges were trying to get all the info and make a call i made an error... Having been told the track was clear another message came over the radio which i mistakingly thought said release the cars... So i released them on their 2nd run... This run was not counted as the judges were still deciding and as the cars finished they came to their conclussion...

Basically to run them again as they couldnt see and going by third party info they had to make a call....

I had no say in this, I just gave them the facts of what happened ... There was also a number of drivers at the 1st bend and their opinions were asked and of the 12 or so they were split 50-50 and who was wrong and rite so then the judges made their call....

All im doing here is giving the facts so now ye can draw ye'r own conclussions...

I think it was a hard call to make to be honest and dont really no whether twas rite r wrong...

Is this ProDrift's official word on it from a starting marshall judging it or just your opinion Dan? Genuine question

heard there was serious action in the hotel rooms aswell