BECKY EVANS: Bear with me on this one.
[CAR ENGINE REVVING]
-Oh! JAMES DEANE: Open the bottom.
BECKY EVANS:
And that's what's scaring me.
It's like I need more time.
Last year I took the first steps to get back into competitive driving.
This year I am going to prove I can get to Grassroots Competition.
I'm gonna enter the Drift Cup.
I just want to qualify.
I have worked so hard, I need to keep my head in place.
You need the money from the work to drift and then you need time.
As long as you give it your all
then you can be proud when you get out of the car.
It's gonna be me to prove I've got what it takes.
Just heading out the door now for Ireland.
I spoke to James Deane,
he said that if I want to get on a track
Watergrasshill is the best place to go, it's where he learned.
So it's a 15-hour car journey.
I need to get to Julian's.
As usual I am late, but it's time to go.
We are on our road trip to Ireland.
It's quite funny really when you look out the window
and see my car bouncing behind,
but me and Julian are motoring along.
I guess I haven't introduced you guys to Patrick yet.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
Can't have babies together, OK?
Yeah, all of your social media stuff.
You're basically hashtag Husbands of Instagram.
In Ireland
you can get the best sausage sandwich known to man.
I have to say as a confessed chickatarian.
-Chickatarian? -Yeah.
BECKY: What's a chickatarian? JULIAN: I love chicken.
I've gone from a vegetarian to a chickatarian.
BECKY: Do you not eat sausages then? -No, not really no.
-Freak! -Yeah.
BECKY:
And then we will be arriving in Quark.
-Cork. BECKY: Cork. Cork.
[SHIP HORN BLOWS]
BECKY:
Ireland is the birthplace of loads of motorsport drivers.
And Watergrasshill in Cork is Formula D champion,
James Deane's local track.
So, I have him as my mentor, plus, my dad, and Julian on the sidelines.
No pressure, Rebecca.
I think I am more nervous about dad seeing me
than the cameras being on Julian and me.
All along there's like pinch points where I'm just so uncomfortable.
This is going to be another step outside of my comfort zone.
JULIAN: The center part is relatively forgiving
whereas this entrapment, you can hit tire walls,
you can do a lot of damage if things go wrong.
I'm a little bit tired now. How are you feeling?
Grand. I'm fucking back home.
I haven't been here for ages and I'm pumped to see the fucking lads.
Well, I couldn't say it any better than that.
Sleep time for B.
[CAR ENGINE REVVING]
-Becky! BECKY: Yo!!
-How are you? -Yeah, I'm not bad, how are you?
-Welcome to Ireland. -Good to see you.
-All good? -Yeah. Not too bad.
-That's good. -Nervous.
So, first time on a real circuit I guess
with some boundaries around, uh?
That's what I mean. I'm now just looking at it and thinking, oh, God!
That's a good thing. I'm drifting so long
and still get nervous every time before I go out and battle on track.
Julian's saying it's like third gear
into the first corner.
But first of all we'll probably start with the smaller corners,
second gear stuff, and build off up to that.
So, if you can do something fast you haven't done before,
that's really great.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
Straight down and left.
[CAR ENGINE REVVING]
JAMES: Little bit, little bit.
Slow down a little bit.
You're entering the corners too fast.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
All right, keep going. Clutch and handbrake now.
Back on the power, back on the power, clutch and handbrake again.
[BOTH LAUGH]
I'm not panicking just helping.
Go on, go on, go on. All right, clutch, handbrake now.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
BECKY: Oh, man.
JAMES: Come on, keep going, keep going.
BECKY: Bear with me on this one.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
BECKY: Oh!
JAMES: Just back... Straight back. Open the bottom.
BECKY: I'm going to take it off. JAMES: Don't worry.
MAN 2: Becky, everything okay?
It really sucks.
We've always got cameras and stuff and people,
it's just like it cuts us down, and cuts down and cuts down,
till I just don't have any time.
And that's the bit that scares me. It's like I just need more time.
But I don't want to get frustrated because we're trying to do this
and it's like I'm still trying to learn
and I get super frustrated when I don't get something right.
I'm fine.
[SIGHS]
JULIAN: Yeah, I think the bumper has been the victim.
Yeah, pushing the limit.
It is the first little bit of a rub she's had
and if she isn't rubbing in drifting,
-she isn't trying hard enough. -Exactly.
BECKY: Oh, my car looks awful.
JAMES: No, it doesn't. This is gonna happen.
You have to push yourself,
if you rip a side skirt off one of those, it doesn't matter.
The car's going to be getting a new kit.
BECKY: Yeah. JAMES: This does not matter.
PHIL EVANS: There she comes.
JAMES: Go, go, go, go, and clutch, hammer it right now.
Back into power. Back it, back it.
[CAR ENGINE REVVING]
Excellent.
She doesn't have a front bumper to lose now,
so she can drive harder.
JAMES: Yeah, that's awesome.
Oh, yeah.
All right, handbrake again. Awesome work.
-You're feeling it. BECKY: Yeah.
Keep on power, keep on power, keep on power, keep on power.
The coordination now of the entry to handbrake.
She's putting it together now.
JAMES: Keep it going, keep it going.
Awesome. Nice, nice, nice.
Now stop this.
[BRAKES SCREECH]
You should be happy and proud.
BECKY: Yeah? JAMES: Yeah.
-But… BECKY: But?
JAMES: There's a hill to climb.
BECKY: Yeah, fuck it. No, I know.
A little frustration gets you moving.
[BOTH LAUGH]
You know what, Dad? Every time I stop,
it's like I want to keep moving,
because I'm constantly feeling time, time, pressure, pressure.
But if you're gonna succeed, you drive to the limit.
You find the hundred percent then you drive at ninety-nine percent
and you put together the finesse which is what you're doing.
Thanks for coming out, Dad.
Um, it's a privilege to be here, babe.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
I feel like a little girl again, when I got a a red light,
I got out and cried and stomped my feet.
[BOTH LAUGH]
A lot of progress in a couple of hours.
You were entering all the corners and legs starting with a clutch key,
to now coming into all the corners initiating with the hand brake,
getting back into power and linking these last few corners together.
I think the car needs to improve with your skill.
So, I think you're almost getting to the limit of the power
and I was very impressed when we touched the tire,
lost the bumper,
and you went back out there and you were driving even harder.
So, that's what you want to see
and it's about time you put a mark on that thing.
Everyone says that. It's not pretty anymore.
JAMES: It looks better if you ask me.
I'm just imagining me at start line and it's upsetting me.
JAMES: You have to look from the outside in.
You're getting better with every lap you do.
Sure, let's go.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
BECKY:
The first time I crashed on track,
but I was kind of expecting it to be fair.
No time to dwell, James invited me
back to his garage to meet local drivers.
JULIAN: You alright, Mike?
Here's Jack. Good to see you, man.
JACK: Good to see you again. JAMES: Had a fun day.
JACK: Teaching her a bit? BECKY: I'm getting there.
So, yeah, like a lot of stuff is based around here from many years.
JULIAN:
This is the hub of it really.
BECKY:
when you were building the '92, it's like everyone just helps.
It's like very much a community feeling.
Yeah, all of my cars so far, they've all been built in this workshop
from when I had my first car.
Two hundred euros, handbrake,
and just driving, having fun.
Yeah, I feel like because,
I've been so concentrated on the competition element of this,
I'm it's not lost on me
that where this all started for everyone, it's just fun.
Not completely. If you're not having fun, don't do it
because the whole element of drifting is about fun.
MAN 4: Oh, no way!
[ALL SHOUTING]
-Darren, how are things? MAN 4: What's up, Deane?
This is the Corolla Twin Cam A E86.
This is the legend of Irish drifting.
This is just fucking epic. This is what…
Oh, right. Darren's here. How are you?
BECKY: The seats in there are ridiculous.
JAMES: This is pure U.K. It's like...
DARREN: This is the 1600 twin cam engine, closed ratio box
It's cool.
I'm especially liking in the cobweb on the pioneer like hedging it.
This is basically Top Gear meets Julian Smith, isn't it?
MAN 5: Dude, seriously.
Irish Paddy edition.
Yeah, fuck Top Gear and Jeremy Clarkson.
BECKY:
but I'm still gonna need way more practice.
I've stayed on in Ireland for a couple days because I, thankfully,
have some time to just purely get sat back into the S15.
JAMES: All righty, ready?
BECKY: Ready. JAMES: Let's go.
[CAR ENGINE REVVING] [TIRES SCREECHING]
BECKY: I'm scared of that corner.
[JAMES LAUGHS]
JAMES: All right, Julian, I'm very sorry.
Sylvia is basically just losing body panels as we go along,
but I guess that's the best way to learn.
JAMES: Go on. BECKY: Yeah.
JAMES: Have fun. BECKY: Yeah.
JAMES: Don't wheel spin.
[CAR ENGINE REVVING]
Jeez, she doesn't even clean up after herself.
[CAR ENGINE CONTINUES REVVING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
JAMES: Keep it going.
[CAR ENGINE REVVING]
[RATTLING]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
JAMES: Sorry about it.
BECKY:
Grassroots competition.
[CAR ENGINES REVVING]
This morning I tried to get up and I couldn't move my head.
-Is there a knack to this place? -Smiling when it all goes wrong.