na thats cool, i think its a great sport, most people say its full of hoons and bogans, (ok it may be on the streets) but it takes skill, looks good, and smells great..

not much feels better than goin sideways..

Thanks!

Well I've been doing some ride and drive events these past few months and a few of my fellow instructors are road racers and Rallists turned drifters.............the funny thing is one of them is a guy who has driven ALMS prototypes , an IRL race ,been an instrucor with Bob Bondurant and why does he do Drifting? Because it is easy to get sponsorship. Same deal for Rhys Millen , he came to some of our Rally events but you can actaully make money drifting.
At our local Autocrosses we've had to come up with the no drifting as well , mainly because most people attempting itare clueless. Same things at the Porsche Club and SCCA track days I instruct at , even as instructors we keep it toned down so some tosser doesn't do the "I can do that".
On the plus side the sport of drifting has come up wth schools so guys can practice in a safe enviorment.
My 12 yr old Son seems to be turning into quite the drifter at Autocross.............having started at 8 years old and being in a Kart folks don't seem to get so uptight about it...................he has a couple of 360's without hitting cones to his credit..........of course his times aren't always so good.

Tom

PS I added the Kart drift photo to my album but as usaul i can't figure out how to display it here....help?

Drifting as a sport may be fun but it has really started to screw up things for autocross. At least in the US. Damm lawyers and insurance clowns!

Because of some "accidents" during poorly run or illegal drifting events we are now treated to the anti drifting warning at every autocross we attend, whether it is a local club event or run by the SCCA.

I started in autocross in 1980 and spent 2 years running the SCCA rally divisional series in '85 and '86. Really had fun learning the proper rally driving technique! Rally has to be the most fun you can have in a car... Now, if it did not cost so darn much...

Back to autocross... At an SCCA event last summer I was still sorting out the car, having added a rear anti-swaybar but not having got things dialed in quite right, got into a 180 degree sweeper a bit hot. Did what came naturally and rallyed around the corner in a nice 4 wheel drift. I got a "drift warning" from one of the pit stewards...

Just kind of P's me off that now we have to be "politically correct" in how we drive during races.

Sorry about the rant...

Oh, here is the only photo of my dato in a drift... Was wet which kind of helped the sideways equation...

Gary

very nice

heres me having a little fun at the last sdc track day at wakefield

drifting is for people that cant rally

i had lots of vids of a few well known corners in adel but my comp is down so you have to wait.

i still remmeber the first night i had the screamer pipe and went to one of corners to try out and it put me off massively...it just scared me ha ha got scared to use the throttle.. all good now tho

well my ute seems to find its ass out in the wet even when i dont try casue, i tryed once when cruzing home 3 in the mornin in the wet and spun. neva again, so i wanna get a cam licence