Prodrift Round 5 at Mondello

Despite my love of travelling to events far away, its good to take in a local 1 too,in this case Round 5 of Prodrift at Mondello Park . The standard in Ireland is improving at almost every event,making it more of a spectacle

Christy Carpenters RB26DETT powered S14 Silvia,very fast with loads of tyresmoke but later fell victim to the dreaded 'RB26 death rattle' with a conrod through the side of the block,not good

Damien Mulvey in the TDP / Bridgestone Nissan OneVia was making full use of his new RB26 engine,with Top 16 qualification on its 1st outing, definatley one to watch

Dean Kearneys very smart Xtreme Autos OneVia,running the more usual SR20DET engine

Alan McCord,better known as Chubby,decides 2 wheels are better than 4 in his Hi Octane Imports Nissan S15 Silvia

Easily driver of the day for me and the most committed (and mad!!) was Johnny Power in the Xtreme Autos Nissan 180SX, seen here battling the eventual winner of the event,Eric O Sullivan

There had to be a runner up and today it was Darren McNamara in his new 4AGE AE86, who put a good fight against Eric's Honda S2000 powered AE86,which overcame Darrens best efforts despite having the windscreen shattered in the previous battle with Johnny Power (look closely in the photo above)

More photos are on my Fotopic site