It has cost him a lot of sleepless nights in the past 10 months, so Wanganui drift racer Ricky Lee hopes his vision of a new fan-friendly competition goes off like clockwork at the Ricoh Taupo Motorsport Park tomorrow.
Lee and Wanganui-born race designer Andrew Stewart have put together a new format for a drift competition, which will be showcased at the annual Diesel, Demons and Daredevils event in Taupo this weekend by a field of 24 cars.
This competition does away with multiple practice sessions and instead goes straight into qualifying runs, where there will be 60 "battles" between two cars on the Saturday.
Based on the scores given by the six judges, which includes Wanganui's Karl Brown, the cars will then be separated to compete in three tiers of finals on Sunday.
The top six cars will go for the Cup, cars seeded 7th-12th will contest the Plate, and the remainder will go for the Bowl.