Quote Originally Posted by Flat Eric View Post
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!!