Our Danielle takes on the Rallycross Championship challenge
Armed with her Motorsport Ireland License Danielle Murphy prepares for her Rallycross racing debut in Mondello tomorrow Well ladies, firstly let me apologise for my 9 weeks absence since my last blog! From travelling to Malta with only 10 hours notice to judge an event, to preparing for my first ever experience to give Rallycross a go this weekend in Mondello, it’s all been pretty much go, go, go. To recap as briefly as possible over the past 9 weeks, so as not to give you a novel to read I shall start at 11pm one Thursday evening, to be told I would be on a flight leaving Dublin at 10.30am the next morning to travel to Malta! After my first experience in Sicily, Italy judging my first ever Drift event, I was a big success thankfully, and it now is something that will become more frequent outside of my own competitions. IRISH DRIFT CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 2 CHALLENGE: On returning from Malta I had almost exactly 14 days until my next competition with the Irish Drift Championship, I have been planning for a while to refresh The Green Monster with a new bodykit and re-spray. I do this every year as Drift cars do get tatty with so much hardship on track. Not to do things by half, it was 8 days before my event in the famous Green Glens Arena in Millstreet, when I decided I would set myself the challenge to get my car completely made over. Now I understand a lot of you may not understand the amount of time that actually goes into preparing a car before paint, and then actually painting, this wasn’t a big enough challenge for me, I was on a mission to completely restyle the car from scratch, which meant we needed to make the rear arches 5 times to actually get the finished piece that is now on the car! It took almost 3 days alone just to get the two rear arches designed, moulded, made and fitted! In total we estimated roughly 550 man hours between 4 of us in 8 days working around the clock. For now I will show you a before and after photo, I will do a future feature to explain all of this process at a later date. IRISH DRIFT CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 2:...
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