You must really use your imagination to find the story which needs to be told. There was no such issue at Global Warfare 3, where the Irish Drift Championship faced off against the Drift Allstars series.
If you even have a passing interest in drifting, you should be able to appreciate the continued success and rise of IDC.
The Drift Allstars series was quietly doing its thing around Europe, seeking out and helping to develop the sport far and wide, typically in areas which rarely received the international spotlight.
It was inevitable then that with both series at their strongest, that the Drift Allstars tour would eventually have to come to Ireland and face the new era of Irish drifting. With months and months of hype and build up, it finally went down with spectacular results. In my 12 years of covering drifting, this might just be the best event I’ve attended with fascinating storylines and unexpected results right down to the very last battle.
The big talking point, was Ireland’s unbeaten record on home soil. For 12 years, since the birth of drifting in Ireland, none of the 74 international drivers who have travelled here have ever stood on the top step of the podium. That’s a remarkable number, regardless of what was to happen at Global Warfare. Some will bemoan the fact that often, the drivers from abroad didn’t have their own cars or crews with them (which isn’t technically correct as plenty did including Aasbø, Saito and Nishida), but there were to be no such excuses for the DA drivers.
With drivers coming from South Africa, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, the United Kingdom, Lithuania and more, every one of them would drive their own cars with their own crews supporting them.
Original published at "SpeedHunters" website.
