The ‘King of the Court’ has been for the past 3 years the biggest event on the UDC calendar. Indeed it is the one event out of them all that drivers want to win. As a one-off single day championship event the appeal seems to be the feeling that on the day, anyone can walk away with the title. Nowadays with the Bishops Court track honed to near perfection, to carry this title means that you have mastered a mammoth task ahead of all-comers. Making his return to competitive drifting for this very reason was Chris Brady, who has been absent from the scene shortly after being promoted to Div 1 back in 2008. A lot has changed under the skin of the green S14 drift machine since last we saw it, with the familiar sound of the RB25 Skyline plant exiting from the rear. Chris over came initial bugs in the system (not least the fact that the steering wheel kept coming loose!) to squeeze in a clean run in qualifying to give himself a fighting chance.
Progressing well through the first round of battles, the changeable weather conditions changed again, for the worse, just as the top 4 battles got under way. This favoured the more tried and tested machines and a lack of rear end grip saw Brady’s progress halted when McKeever pulled off a pass on the exit to the hairpin. The tremendous rear grip on McKeever’s car meant that fellow finalist Rob Barnett also fell foul to Duan’es now signature manoeuvre and he too had to give best to the teenage terror. We had a new boy King (of the Court).
