EDC Brands Hatch 2009

[brands hatch]

Hi,

I will be attending the EDC at the modified live event at brands hatch on the 28th of june.

I have been to a british drift championship event but never a european one.

I am wondering... are the rules/regs the same or do they differ? If so in what ways?

Thanks
'Brands hatch'

[Elio]

Yeah Baby!! Betta get there early to beat da Roadblock. Bring all yer homies from da hood. Gonna be buzzin` dude wid all the hottest cars and hotter ho*s!!....

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(Mods feel free to delete this post for gratuitous stupidity).


I remember watching the AutoCar Sideways Challenge at Brands one weekday in the Autumn of 200?. It had me mildly entertained for about 5 minutes watching Rob Huff trying to drive a kind of Nissan Pickup sideways. Other than that is was rather pointless and dreadful.

Whoever the Japanese guy was that they had at Brands a couple of years ago doing a demo in some kind of dedicated drift car though was mighty impressive. If its anything like that it may be mildly entertaining. I presume the best place to watch will be Clearways.

As for rules.. are you saying there ARE some???!!

[brands hatch]

Originally Posted by Elio

Whoever the Japanese guy was that they had at Brands a couple of years ago doing a demo in some kind of dedicated drift car though was mighty impressive. If its anything like that it may be mildly entertaining.

As for rules.. are you saying there ARE some???!!

I guess you have never been to a proper "drift round" then. The cars in The EDC are nearly all what you call "dedicated drift cars"

This video is from this years knockhill round which i found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Uq5VwOFso

And by rules i also meant wheather the point scoring system is the same or not! So yes!...there are "rules"

[westfieldbend]

Originally Posted by Elio

Yeah Baby!! Betta get there early to beat da Roadblock. Bring all yer homies from da hood. Gonna be buzzin` dude wid all the hottest cars and hotter ho*s!!....

why would anybody want to miss the best meeting of the year at lydden!

[brands hatch]

Originally Posted by westfieldbend

why would anybody want to miss the best meeting of the year at lydden!

Yes! (Brands hatch is much easier to get to!!...and i have to pay for Lydden!!!!)

One My personal favourites at Lydden is the Festival of motorsport in september. However this year its on the same weekend as the DTM at brands Hatch, so will be missing that aswell!

[Elio]

Don`t quite understand the whole 2-cars-on-track-at-once thing??! I always thought Drift was like Ice Dancing - awarded points for technique etc??

I wasn`t aware that Lydden had a good meeting on that day?? I was under the impression it was a BARC-SE meet starting at 12ish but still costing a full ticket price to get in?! Saturday at Lydden will do for me. I`ll be heading to Brands for the bling-iest event in the South East that day. It`s gonna be sick. Dude. You gotta believe it.

(PS - Really hope it hisses it down that day - it`ll be even better. (And funnier)!!)

[brands hatch]

Originally Posted by Elio

Don`t quite understand the whole 2-cars-on-track-at-once thing??! I always thought Drift was like Ice Dancing - awarded points for technique etc??

The twin drifting is something along the lines off: (for the British drifting anyway!) You have to drift better than your opponent! you have two runs to score higher than your opponent, you drift together and get marks out of a total of ten say 6 to one driver, 4 to another. In this case driver one wins, so driver 2 has to win the second round to win overall!!!!!

(sorry for the poor explanation, its easier to watch!)

[westfieldbend]

Originally Posted by Elio

(PS - Really hope it hisses it down that day - it`ll be even better. (And funnier)!!)

lydden wont be fun in the wet, all the minis electrics will get wet and break down... actually thinking about it drifting could be interesting in the wet (but do they still run it in the wet?)