Prodrift Round 3 Fermoy 2012

Last weekend saw Prodrift hit its local track, Fermoy. This is always one of my favourite rounds. One reason is that its always an exciting round. Another is that its less than 15 miles from my house.

The track layout was very fast with 9 clipping points. Yes I did say 9. This was the first event of the year where we got decent track access. We had 2 boxes on track we could use. This is always great for some long smooth pans.

This is Christy Carpenter in a borrowed 180. This was Chistys first event this year. He’s currently building a new ps13 with a 2jz.

This is Shane O’Sullivan. Gotta love the smoke trail on this one.

Another advantage to this setup is how close we get to the cars. These are Brian Egans eyes staring out at me.

Superlap saw James Deane top the ranking with a first. A perfect run. 30 points. Well done James. We’ll have more on this with James’s blog in the next few days. James was paired up against Adrian Walsh for the top 16.

James’s brother Mike took fourth in superlap but came up against Paul McCarthy in the top 16 who seemed unstoppable.

Shane O’Sullivan took fifth in superlap. This lined him up against up and coming driver Seamus Walsh.

In the great 8 Paul McCarthy came up against Damien Mulvey. Due to my position on the track I didn’t get Damiens crash. Heres a nice snap of it curtsey of Daniel O’Shea of ontherack.net. You can’t see me in this but I’m about 5 foot behind the concrete barrier that Damien is trying to drive over.

The first battle of the top 4 sees James vs Paul

The second battle is Shane vs Gavin.

In the third, fourth playoff James took the win over Shane.

It came down to Paul and Gavin in the final. With a great battle by 2 of the fastest drivers in the country Paul took the win.