state and national drift series

[Leigh]

I just had a rant in the Sydney section thought I would throw this up on here, maybe some one with money or skills or both could make it happen

I wish some one would start up a proper national drift series 5 rounds in each state each year run by local drift clubs with footage of the events posted on a website
(then potential sponsors can get a good idea of how many people are interested in the sport and will see their logo etc in that footage which logically would mean more sponsorship in the way of parts, tuning, money etc for the drifters out there)
Then the top five or so in each state get a FREE ticket to slide in a national end of year comp n show it online and SBS Channel 9 etc

And most importantly fair prices for tickets to watch and or compete so the sport will grow and not go backwards like it has this year GFC or not

[Brendo]

The only thing thats gone backwards this year is DA, reason being sponsors not having enough money to support the event.

As far as i know next year should be a proper series again. State comps this year i think are bigger than ever tho!

[Delazy]

lol HARD....you obviously have little to no understanding on wat you are talking about...

[sundee]

Thats what they say... if u only knew, so u have to purchase a specifinc DA licence to compete in their events, and its bloody expensive, they work it like shares in a company but they call it a licence! i know personally of one who payed 15K for the year. no joke
THEN..you have to foot the entree fees and at $1500 a round for the DA drivers thats a fetching joke!

DA is all about he coin and not about the sport, their events are poorly ran and setup, their is no entertainment value what so ever

And thats y he put up the suggestion, and i think its a freaken good one at that. as for logistics of it, yeah it might be a tough cookies to crumble but as an idea its great.

y compete in DA though when, TAsmania have an awsome series, things are going on in QLD, They have their supercheap auto series.

bettter prizes much smaller entree fees, and no coroprate licening scheme!

what needs to happen is, with the likes of the super cheap auto series in QLD and the TAssi series, we should get one cranking in NSW, and the SA guys get one going, even WA..
The top 3 or 4 drivers from each state at the end of the series go into one massive round at the end of year, have it in a different state each time... it would be great for the sport. let the litte guys come together to form an alliance, not have some stupid money making corporation taking over the whole sport, ( im not saying the organisers cant make money, just make it more about providing a place and entertainment rather than a big bank account and corporate BS!

[Leigh]

yep yep
Start it from the bottom up instead of trying to have a big national series (which IMHO has some what failed to deliver) have all the state series better set up and then have them run the end of year final round.

DA is all about coin
Drifting is all about having fun and the majority of drifters are on a budget (especially when there are so many people out there in cars that are worth well under 10k)
budget mods, tyres scavenged from tile piles, locked diffs and saving all your cash just to get out on the track

[DR86TY]

DA was a joke,

They complain about not having enough money to run the event, did any one else notice forking out 40 bucks to watch the event, times that by the number of people at the day and all of a sudden your up 80k just on entry.

If the price was reasonable you would have alot more spectators at the sport, having more people will help sponsors come around to the idea of offering a few prizes for the drivers and receive value for money.

As for entertainment there was one DJ and rc cars, why not take a few more ideas from the international events, more music, more girls running around in skimpy outfits more noise and most of all more people.

In my own opinion DA killed drifting in Australia, DA was just a greedy bunch of blokes who saw an oppurtunity to make a few coins from a sport that wasn't even off the ground yet.

More track days, more chance for young drivers to get into the sport, even set up a grass roots program. This is the only way to move the sport forward

[ae86hachiroku]

DA failed. It was a disgrace to drifting.

Drift in Australia seems to have a hard time following our internatonal counterparts in terms of success. Too damn narrow minded.

[DR86TY]

All about making the most amount of coin out of an undeveloped sport.

Make ae86dc a club already so we can hit this sport with kick in the nuts to get it kick started again

[daily_driven_death_sled]

whose been to stadium drift at parklands? thats a well setup gig its like $15 to get in thers always a decent amount of cars they even ran it at night,tyre companies need to pull their finger out and do some sponsoring.

really ther needs 2 be a drift comp run in conjunction with v8 supercars, ther shuld be a series and a local comp running for each track that would be the best for the sport and who knows in a few yrs it would probably bring just as much fans to the races as the v8's do

[fantapants]

people need to chill out and realsise it takes decades to get a national support program together that is justifiable commercially and ingrained in the publics conscience.

The idea is sound, austrlia is too large and too sparsely populated for a national minority sport to gain popular air time... what sonsors need. air time.

Spend a few years developing strong local and state programs. Let the sport develop naturally in the psyche of the public, then events like v8 supercars will start to tap into the adittional interest it can bring to their events. That opens a lot of doors, but it wont happen without years of strong local development like we have in queensland and like delazy is putting together in tassie... or someonethrows 100 mill at the v8s and we buy our way in.