Drift Match Croatia

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Long things made short. Went to a drift competition and won it.



Download video from a training.
How to kill tire in 60 seconds. :eek:


http://www.go-drift.com/video/go-drift.com_24V.wmv 10mb video

Friday 5. May 2006
Long things made long.
This saturday we had round 2 of Croatian drift competition known as "Drift Match Croatia" held in Pula, Istria, on Adriatic coast.


300km trip to Pula from Zagreb started on friday morning for me.
Visit to a local shop (www.dastek.hr) for a fresh oil and check of the car.


Loaded the car with 3 set of tires,some tools and went to a trip


Arrived to Pula on friday. I visited the parking lot where competition was about to held next day. Since I'm a polite guy I asked for a permision to test the grip of surface. :wack:

Surface was very very agresive for tires as we are about to find out the next day.
Rest of the day I spent crusing along the coast and at the beach. In the evening we settled in a camping house to sleep over.


Saturday 6. May 2006 - competition day

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9 cars arrive to a competition.
Weather was sunny with temperatures of around 20°C and it was very pleasant with breeze wind.
First training was at 11h.

I went on the track. We were allowed to do 8 laps, but I managed to kill rear tires in 3 laps / 60 seconds as you can see in the video on the above post.


Lot's of crowd around my car.

For second training I've put set of 15" tires, done a few laps and saved 17" tires for competition.

In third training i've put another set of 17" tires and done only 2 easy laps just to test them and preserve for competition.

Competition was done in 2 rounds with judges judging speed/line/angle + style. 2 continous laps were judged.

First round I've drifted like in a training with no mistakes and bit conservative, not wanting to spin. I drifted the entire track from entry to exit and on the straight line.

Second round was at round 17h. Everybody was now bit tired from the day spent on the sun.
I've managed to concentrate and improve my driving and did bit more agresive entries, while everybody else did lost their concentration makin more mistakes.
So I won over my mate Hrc in AE86 and Tikky with E21 323 bimmer


My GF and biggest fan



Me, picking up the award money - 900kn / 120€ wohooo


My mechanic

After the event we went to a fancy bar called "Aruba" to celebrate the victory




Sunday 7. May 2006

Weather was very nice, so we decided to spent some more time at the coast enjoying the sunshine.

Found a nice spot to take pictures.









We arrived home on Sunday evening, tired but happy from a nice spent weekend.

Next event is in 2 weeks.