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Dean Kearney Returning “Home” to Compete in Irish Drifting Championship

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Dean Kearney returning “Home”  will compete in the Irish Drifting Championship in 2014, piloting MG Crash repairs Nissan S15

In 2012, MG Crash Repairs successfully won the final Prodrift championship. MG Crash Repairs will return to a full season of competition in the Irish Drifting Championship, Bringing in 2009 ProDrift Super Series champion and Dean Kearney to pilot their Nissan S15. 

MG Crash Repairs competed in select drifting events in 2013 in Ireland and the UK with Team owner/operator Mark Gaffney behind the wheel of the S15. MG Crash Repairs took the top two spots at the final ProDrift event ever back in 2012 when Brendan Stone clinched his championship in an S15 while Dai Yoshihara drove a Toyota Altezza to a second place finish. With the new season just days away MG Crash repairs have announced it will be back to fight for a championship with Dean “Karnage” Kearney behind the wheel of the 550hp RB26-powered car and the help of some great partners coming on board, including Chambers Performance, Mechanic mobile.net and City Auto Components. 
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Christy Carpenter 2011 – ProDrift Driver (Video)

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Take a look back on Christy Carpenter’s year of drifting the gorgeous Yokohama Nissan S15. This year Christy has competed in both Ireland and the UK in the JZ engined Nissan.

Christy had a fun year scoring and equaling his previous best result of 3rd in Fermoy last year with a 3rd on his home event in Ennis at ProDrift Round 1. Christy followed that up with a 2nd place to James Deane (ProDrift 2010 and Drift Allstars 2011 Champion) at Drift Allstars Birmingham.

Christy would like to thank his sponsors for 2011 whom without their help and dedication it would be impossible to compete.

A Quick Catch Up With Dean “Karnage” Kearney After ProDrift Finals

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If you don’t know who Dean Kearney is, he drives the V-Leds Dodge Viper for Team SHR in the Formula Drift series. Dean was kind enough to give us a nice quick wrap-up and break down of his first entry to ProDrift in a while by attending the ProDrift Finals as well as some insight on the upcoming Formula Drift Finals and trying to become a resident in the states for the upcoming new year. Check out what we got from our man Mr. Karnage!

 

 

EverythingDrift: So how was it returning to ProDrift for their final event and Qualifying 6th overall in a car you have never driven? How do you feel you placed overall through out the competition? 
Dean “Karnage” Kearney: Returning to Prodrift was awesome! I have had the idea of returning to Prodrift on my mind for quite some time, even to do the odd event or maybe a full season but to return for what was the best European drift event ever staged to date was incredible. The Prodrift finals had the normal huge domestic entry in excess of 50 cars split into 2 classes over two days while the large number of international champions meant that even qualifying for Top16 was going to be tough and leave a lot of competitors upset! Lets not forget, this was not an exhibition event and there was still a 2011 Prodrift championship to be decided away from the glitz and glamour of all the International names competing. The crowd may have been in favour of all these top drivers competing but there was some drivers who were hoping to wrap up a season strong and could have done without all these FD and current champions from other series. I made a last minute decision to enter after seeing the hype built up around what is called “Japfest” which is held annually at Mondello Park and where Prodrift have used Japfest to stage their finals each year. A large crowd is guaranteed especially with the likes of Dai Yoshihara and Team Need for Speed who are all seasoned Formula Drift competitors so after a few phone calls to try and track down a car capable of being competitive my entry was confirmed on Thursday evening.

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Shane O’Sullivan to Drive Japspeed S15 in Prodrift 2011

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Japspeed are proud to announce the introduction of Ireland’s Shane O’Sullivan to the team for 2011. After a successful 2010, Japspeed are branching out to compete full-time in the Irish Prodrift series, and as such their RB25-powered S15 will be maintained and ran by Shane Finn and the rest of the Japspeed Ireland division.

‘Paul and the Japspeed UK team have built a truly fantastic machine which we’ve seen compete in Ireland in the past’ explains Shane Finn. ‘The S15 will still remain in its traditional Japspeed black and white livery but instead will be used by Shane O’Sullivan throughout the Prodrift series, as well as additional displays and events to help promote Japspeed in Ireland’.

Driver Shane O’Sullivan has been nicknamed the ‘dark horse’ of the ProDrift series thanks to his consistent but aggressive driving style, and has competed for the past three years in a 380bhp Nissan S13. The step-up to the Japspeed 470bhp S15 will give him the chance to further improve his driving and get up on the podium in a series featuring some of the world’s best drifting talent.

Additionally, first testing will begin at Mondello Park this Saturday, March 19th.

Dates of the ProDrift series:

Round 1 Ennis, Co.Clare April 16th/17th

Round 2 Fermoy, Co. Cork May28th/29th

Round 3 Punchestown, Co. Kildare June 11th/12th

Round 4 TBC July 16th/17th

Round 5 Mondello, Co. Kildare September 10th/11th