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?