Drift Games to host the biggest event ever held at Mondello Park
DRIFT Games are set to break attendance records at Mondello Park this weekend as they invite Adam LZ — one of the biggest names in the automotive world — to Ireland for the first ever LZ Festival.
Adam LZ is one of the biggest motoring YouTube stars in the world with 3.5million subscribers.
He is also a professional drifter, competing in Formula Drift in the US in a 1,200bhp RTR Ford Mustang.
He will be joined by fellow American superstars TJ Hunt, Jimmy Oakes, Ryan Meyer — plus all their crews — and LZ's girlfriend Collete Davis.
The best drifter in the world, James Deane, who just happens to be from Cork, will be competing with 40 other international drivers on Saturday, as they go head-to-head in drift battles to see who will be crowned the Drift King of Ireland.
Adam will be driving a 1,000bhp 2JZ powered Nissan S15 that was built by Quinn Motorsport's Kevin Quinn and Joe Doyle.
Quinn Motorsport have actually built to identicle S15s and Kev will aslo be competing in the Drift King of Ireland battles.
And Davis will also be competing behind the wheel of Drift Games boss Dave Egan’s Chevrolet C6 Corvette.
Luke Fink is coming back to Ireland and the controversial Australian drifter will be driving the Low Brains V8 powered Nissan PS13.
Monster Energy’s Dubai drifter Sultan Al-Qassimi will be revealing the world’s most extreme, expensive and advanced Toyota AE86.
And fellow Monster Energy driver Tessa Whittock will be competing in her Nissan R32 Skyline along with her partner Martin Richards.
And you can bet it will be a very special Corolla because he already owns an incredible collection of vehicles and supercars as well as a crushed carbon-fibre Aston Martin twin-turbo LS V8 powered drift car.
Another legendary AE86 drift car will be coming back to Ireland for the LZ Festival.
Phil Morrison’s V8 LSX powered Drift Works beast is being rebuilt and resurrected after not being driven in anger for six years.
But the Drift Works owner is also bringing his GT1 inspired V12 Lamborghini Murcielago that features a manual gearbox swap and runs on individual throttle bodies that sounds even better than it looks.
Auto Finesse are bringing their Liberty Walk kitted S15 to Ireland for the first time.
This Silvia started life as a drag car and now has one of the craziest bodykits ever fitted to a S-Body Nissan.
Drivers who have just been announced to take part in the Sunday drift event are Northern Smoke Machine Duane McKeever and Cork brothers Jack and Conor Shanahan.
Darren ‘D-Mac’ McNamara has also revealed that the Audi Quattro Group B rally car he’s been slowly converting into a drift car for the last seven years might just be ready in time to be unveiled at the LZ festival.
Steve ‘Baggsy’ Biagioni will be hopping on the ferry from the UK with his latest creation, a Nissan Nivara pick-up fitted with a full Nissan R35 GT-R all-wheel drive system and engine that produces 1,200bhp.
The interest in the event has been so great that another 1,000 grandstand seats are being added and spectators will be able to meet and greet all the stars from the world of drifting and YouTube, as well as enjoy a full on-track entertainment show.
The LZ Festival will be the biggest car show ever held here with more than 200 cars arriving from all over Ireland, the UK and Europe.
In additional there will be Driver Practices, meet and greets with the Superstars of Drifting, Driver superlaps, parades, car reveals, trade and merch villages.
The Drift King of Ireland Battle on Saturday, as well as what is going to be the much anticipated, hotly contested LZ Festival Top 32 Battles on Sunday, with many competitors going head to head for the first time on Sunday.
Both grandstands are sold out as are VIP tickets, but there are still General Admission tickets left and they can only be bought from: mondellopark.ie
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So you better hurry and get those last remaining tickets because if the LZ Festival sell out then Mondello Park could break all attendance records with potentially 25,000 fans turning up to see the show.
"It’s incredible that Mondello Park and Drift Games will be hosting some of the biggest names from the Drifting world from the US, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the demand is for this event is so high, we will have record attendance this weekend, with over 20,000 people anticipated." said Managing Director of Mondello Park, Roddy Greene.
