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Jack Shanahan

Irish professional drift driver From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Jack Shanahan (born 3 August 1999) is an Irish professional drift driver from Cork. Shanahan was the 2016 and 2017 champion of the British Drift Championship and also won the Russian Drift Series [ru] in 2021.

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Career

Shanahan began competing in the semi pro class of the Irish Drift Championship at the age of 13, in a Nissan 180SX, and competed in select rounds of the Drift Allstars European series. In 2014 he won his first major event, the British Drift Championship event at Lydden Hill in a new car, a BMW-powered Nissan 200SX, and finished third at the Drift Allstars event at Mantorp Park in Sweden.[1]

His 2015 BDC title triumph[2] at the age of sixteen made him the youngest driver to win a major drifting title.

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Family

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His younger brother, Conor Shanahan, is also a drifter and competed in the Pro class of the British Drift Championship in 2017 after graduating from the Pro-Am class in 2016. In the 2016 season, the brothers shared the same car, a Nissan 180SX.[3] In 2017 Conor Shanahan appeared on The Grand Tour television series.[4]

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