With the highly anticipated first round of the Irish Drift Championship kicked into effect the Semi-pro and Pro fields were once again wide open for the taking. Previous years showed us how strong contenders were willing to battle it out for their places in the championship and the lengths they would go to claim these…
Catastrophic. Engine. Failure. These 3 words right there appear to have been used quite a lot in driftland in the last couple of days and weeks. Big names like Wesley Keating, Danielle Murphy and most recently our young darlings Jack Shanahan and Tomas Kiely being cruelly subjected to this failure in their hour of most…
Yes I know, a flowery duvet is not what you usually expect from us here at Autolifers, this is a bit of an exception though. This is “A Day In The Life Of An Autolifer”. The subject has come up many times throughout my photography career as to what we do and when we do…
Back home in Ireland the hashtag #dubshedprep has to be one of the most commonly used tags on social media with car enthusiasts on our little island. Dubshed has now become the show season opener after many successful years at the King’s Hall in Belfast. This year however the guys at GTINI have teamed up…
It’s that time of year once again with the Sol Rally Barbados upon us this weekend, however, last Saturday before all the high speed rallying activity got underway, the Barbados Rally Club hosted their pre-event annual scrutineering held at the Simpson Motors, where all safety and legality checks are done to both the cars and…
I spotted this awesome looking Ford Escort RS Cosworth at Mondello a number of weeks back, a real credit to its owners. Also it was great to see an early one, this being a ’93 reg, which I believe would have the bigger turbo. Such an iconic car with that infamous whale tail! Patrick…
Well what can I say, what a weekend of drifting. From start to finish every driver was absolutely on it they put on a show that wasn’t to be missed. Driftland is a pretty unforgiving track between the wall and having very little run off if things go wrong but this still didn’t slow things…
It is no secret that we are fans of the Eight-Six here on Autolifers and when seeing a video dedicated to one we have to check out. Is it worth watching?? Well you can bet your bottom dollar that we would not be posting it unless it was awesome, and it is! The video was…
This is an absolutely beautiful film short about Ari Vatanen and the way he looks at rallying. Ari is always so descriptive and his words are full of meaning and imagery. I do not think anyone can put it more eloquently than Ari Vatanen. If you do not understand rallying watching this video will paint…