If you’ve ever watched an episode of Fifth Gear, you will probably have seen some footage of Anglesey Circuit, and so this is an exciting first for myself and the Pirelli European Drift Championship. We arrived for practice on the Saturday to wind and rain, which is unfortunate after a run of hot dry events [...]
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Thanks to Rally School Ireland, I was able to do a shakedown of the Nissan after much winter fettling along side the RMS day out. I’ll let the Mirror tell all: Keep an eye out for the new Nissan livery with a fresh new image for the 2011 Pirelli European Drift Championship! Thanks to Graham [...]
If someone said to me a year ago that I would be drifting at one of NI’s biggest tourist venues, the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra, at a hill climb, I simply wouldn’t have believed them. Never mind being along side the likes of rally champ Kris Meeke! I was kindly invited by the [...]
It’s not even a week since I’ve been back from Silverstone and the Nissan was going well, qualifying a very respectable 5th at Bishopscourt for the UDC. The good weather followed me to the Downpatrick track from England, although this meant I had a pair of new rear tyres used by the time qualifying was over. [...]
Scorching sunny weather and almost 30′C meant things were fairly hot in the cabin of the Nissan. Now sporting its repainted pink wheels (yes, you read correctly), it was a test of endurance for both me and the car in these hot conditions – there’s no blower in this car never mind air-con! The section of [...]
Round 2 of the European Drift Championship saw Northern Irish competitor Andy Cooper take 8th place at Knockhill Race Circuit in Scotland. Despite being the first time on this part of the course, and turbo issues throughout the day he still managed to step up to the challenge of daunting 90+mph handbrake entries into the first [...]
