Irish Prodrift Series - Keep it on the track!

Edthehead

Mini Mouse..Very well said!!
"prancing around the track like a bunch of Ballet dancers? " If you ever went to see a top level Drift event the last thing you would compare it too is Ballet dancing! it is extremely aggressive with cars being pushed to their limit. I'd compare it to Rallying, the corner you picked out that you hoped would be a good action filled spot and instead of 4wd / Fwd machines arriving at the corner a load of lunatic driven MKII Escorts arrive on full lock.....

djimi

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Why dont the use those cars for actual racing instead of prancing around the track like a bunch of Ballet dancers? They are on a race track in high performance cars and they take turns going around the corners sideways????

I suppose its a bit like dressage with horses; you could ask why they dont get them jumping over the jumps like real horses but Im sure people love it so let them off!

Edthehead

Can you hint at what event and when?

Old Skool Cars

Edthehead wrote: »

Can you hint at what event and when?

I would like to know what event and where too??

and also, what is wrong with comparing any Motorsport genre against each other - i think even the simplest of minds will agree that man and machine vs one another deems it being called a Motorsport?? Yes/No??

challengemaster

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Dont compare it to Rallying,just dont!

P.S I have been/worked at a top level drift event in Ireland.

Just so you know, drifting in Ireland is absolute dire shíte altogether when compared with overseas stuff.

And the reason there's lads out practicing on public roads? There's like... 1 drift track in the whole of Ireland to practice on, and I don't think it's even that challenging.

As for the motorsport thing - It involves cars, and competition, it's a motorsport.

ShadowHearth

btw lads, you all talkabout rings on roads, how dangerous and stupid it is, how boy racish it is ...


i have seen hundreds of those rings, but i newer seen a car crashed near one of those rings. Ussually people who do a donut or two on public road, wount even be seen by anyone, they will be gone in seconds from there...

I wouldnt call doing a donut in the middle of the night on empty road so EXTREME dangerous, specially when it last just for few seconds... thought i do agree that empty car park is better suited for that .

And why would you call drifting a boy racer "sport", as far as i know boy racers drive 1.4 FWD cars. Oh, yeah, 2.0TD chiped diesels, but here again only FWD.

p.s. they might be using trays from mcdonalds on fwd cars lol

Paparazzo

Comparing drifting to proper rally is like comparing the grand national to dressage

KamiKazi wrote: »

Doesn't even come close to the skill levels of these guys

That Ari clip is brilliant! What a legend

Edthehead

challengemaster wrote: »

Just so you know, drifting in Ireland is absolute dire shíte altogether when compared with overseas stuff..

Your obviously an expert, so what do you base this hard fact on???

challengemaster wrote: »

And the reason there's lads out practicing on public roads? There's like... 1 drift track in the whole of Ireland to practice on, and I don't think it's even that challenging. .

Practice days are also run at Fermoy Marts Cork, Punchestown, and City West, there is a few other places, Caseys Yard in Tullow and I think some Kart track in the Midlands not sure where.

challengemaster wrote: »

As for the motorsport thing - It involves cars, and competition, it's a motorsport.

Paddy@CIRL

I worked for Prodrift for seven odd years as a photographer. During this time I literally watched it rise from grassroots to every event being televised on several major TV stations before it began to decline again.

Is drifting a motorsport ? No. It's more akin to an extreme sport like FMX, BMX, Skateboarding etc. No shame in that either.

Does it require talent ? By the bucklet load and in amounts you'd hardly believe. Kris Meeke (Reigning IRC Champion) competed at a PD event in Mondello about two / three years ago and told me how he could just not get to grips of it. Where his instinct was to slow down, the pro-class drivers were accelerating. Of course with practice, I've no doubt Kris would up there with the best of them but to say drifting is easy, you've seriously under estimated it.

Whoever said drifting in Ireland is some of the worst in the world, please just please stop talking. Prodrift has long been a source of drivers for Formula D, with five past Irish champions competing at the top level in the states.

I 100% agree that drifting does seem to attract a lot of the show and shine / 'boy racer' brigade but that can hardly be attributed as the organisers fault. If every scumbag in the country started showing up for Formula Libre would Mondello turn them away ?

AFAIK, with the exceptions of the BSB, Prodrift hold the attendance record at Mondello. We need more people to attend Motorsport events in this country not less. I could care less if they came out to watch autotesting (I don't particularly like autotesting but I'm aware of the talent required and this is just my example) by their thousands once it keeps our race circuit alive.

You don't have to like it, but don't dismiss it. To dimiss it is to be entirely ignorant of the appeal of motorsport and I'd question anyone who is that elitest.