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Some people feel one way, some feel the other. If you don't like it that folks don't want the crap involved in the sport, respect it. If they don't like your idea of a commercialized form of Drifting, they should respect it too. No need to get all inflamatory.
You are right about that one. Alot of people that are complaining do not know how all this works but some do. Letting someone pay to involve their name is one thing, letting them dictate is entirely another. At some point you have to ask yourself, "Is this still my event?" If it's not then you sold out.
Another great statement. This one is so true it is also scary. But probably not in the way that you are thinking. Most people that add all these non Drifting events into a Drifting event don't have a clue in my opinion. They aren't adding them to help Drifting out, they are adding them to help themselves out. Drifting is new to the public and with that newness also comes a high degree of opinion. The public are swayed very easily on something that looks extremely dangerous. See what everyone fails to realize is the big picture of Drifting. The contests and the events are a large piece of it but not the whole thing.
Drifting at this point in America has a blissful state of obscurity. You can explain Drifting to an average person and they are interested in it because they have no pre-conceived notion on what it is, unlike Street racing. Ask the guy on the street about Drifting and you get a slack jawed stare. Ask that same person what they think of Street racing and you get hate. Why? Because there is a pre-conceived notion that Street Racing is bad and dangerous. This is due in no small part to the goofball thug Import Lifestyle that follows Street Racing around like a plague. Drifting is just as, if not more dangerous but people don't know about it and you can explain it and give them a good view of it. There is no helping Street Racing, it will always be thought of as dangerous and therefore the cops will bust you or any of your friends that look like Street Racers. Same will go with Drifting if mainstream opinion is tainted.
Now ask that person what they think of and associate with Street Racing and the Import Scene in general. I bet you will hear something along the lines of "Young punks in them ying yang cars with the loud mufflers and blaring all that loud music sipping in and out of traffic like idiots" or you may get something that involves drugs, drop outs, fighting or any number of different yet equally stupid things that follows that lifestyle. Why? Because that is the pre-conceived opinion that everyone has about it. Punk kids zingin all over in traffic and being a nuisance.
Drifting isn't a part of that yet. There are none if any Drifting related deaths, no bad articles in the local papers, the cars are different, they are harder to spot and most of the people that do it are a calculating bunch. But, start associating Drifting with the already disliked Import Scene in events, marketing, culture, advertising and what not and Drifting will go the exact same way as Import Drag Racing. You will get a new crop of people who are not into it for the sport or the betterment of driving skills. You will get the Idiot Posers as Slide described them. People who come to the event for the sound off, see Drifting and decide to jump on that train. They then get a car, go out, jack a spot and kill either themselves, a passenger or a bystander. Then guess what, Cops are all over Drifters as the next "Import Monster Epidemic". Drifters will be targetted, harrassed, arrested, cars will be impounded, crushed and Drift specific legislature will come down. But see, the people, the sponsers will have long gone by this time leaving the enthusiasts holding the bag.
So it all boils down to this, you either like it or you don't. Forum arguements will go on forever. I don't like it but that's just me. No-ones opinion is wrong or right. It's just that, an opinion. What the people in charge do with that is up to them but I see no light in the tunnel. Money wins out everytime, integrity will be sacrificed, the train keeps on moving and the sport gets crushed under the wheels. Then it burns out and people move on leaving a shattered image and loads of spare parts floating around for cheap. Not everything is bad with over commercialization you know.
the majority of the people talking sh*t about this dont understand that this is how racing works, sponsors and all that is tied into it.
how can we have a future in something when most of the people that are supposed to be involved are f*cking clueless??????? that just doesnt work
Drifting at this point in America has a blissful state of obscurity. You can explain Drifting to an average person and they are interested in it because they have no pre-conceived notion on what it is, unlike Street racing. Ask the guy on the street about Drifting and you get a slack jawed stare. Ask that same person what they think of Street racing and you get hate. Why? Because there is a pre-conceived notion that Street Racing is bad and dangerous. This is due in no small part to the goofball thug Import Lifestyle that follows Street Racing around like a plague. Drifting is just as, if not more dangerous but people don't know about it and you can explain it and give them a good view of it. There is no helping Street Racing, it will always be thought of as dangerous and therefore the cops will bust you or any of your friends that look like Street Racers. Same will go with Drifting if mainstream opinion is tainted.
Now ask that person what they think of and associate with Street Racing and the Import Scene in general. I bet you will hear something along the lines of "Young punks in them ying yang cars with the loud mufflers and blaring all that loud music sipping in and out of traffic like idiots" or you may get something that involves drugs, drop outs, fighting or any number of different yet equally stupid things that follows that lifestyle. Why? Because that is the pre-conceived opinion that everyone has about it. Punk kids zingin all over in traffic and being a nuisance.
Drifting isn't a part of that yet. There are none if any Drifting related deaths, no bad articles in the local papers, the cars are different, they are harder to spot and most of the people that do it are a calculating bunch. But, start associating Drifting with the already disliked Import Scene in events, marketing, culture, advertising and what not and Drifting will go the exact same way as Import Drag Racing. You will get a new crop of people who are not into it for the sport or the betterment of driving skills. You will get the Idiot Posers as Slide described them. People who come to the event for the sound off, see Drifting and decide to jump on that train. They then get a car, go out, jack a spot and kill either themselves, a passenger or a bystander. Then guess what, Cops are all over Drifters as the next "Import Monster Epidemic". Drifters will be targetted, harrassed, arrested, cars will be impounded, crushed and Drift specific legislature will come down. But see, the people, the sponsers will have long gone by this time leaving the enthusiasts holding the bag.
So it all boils down to this, you either like it or you don't. Forum arguements will go on forever. I don't like it but that's just me. No-ones opinion is wrong or right. It's just that, an opinion. What the people in charge do with that is up to them but I see no light in the tunnel. Money wins out everytime, integrity will be sacrificed, the train keeps on moving and the sport gets crushed under the wheels. Then it burns out and people move on leaving a shattered image and loads of spare parts floating around for cheap. Not everything is bad with over commercialization you know.
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