D1GP DIRECTOR QUITs.....

[soultron]

Resigned eh? Heh...history is written by the guy who writes it down.

I thought history was written by the winners.

[Toycoma]

I wonder if this has anything to do with a certain tire company wanting to do their own pro series also?? That Tracy chick from Batlground on Maxxis tires sent out something on myspace.com asking for driver input and crap because an un-named tire company wanted to start a new pro series (or just a series).

Here is the myspace bulletin

Batlground has been approached by an organization who is interested in putting together a professional drifting series for the East Coast. I am putting my feelers out there to see what you would like to see changed in the way professional drifting is run or judged. Please feel free to comment on what you do like about the way drifting is run and judged. I would also like to state that it may be possible that Drift Fury will become a feeder series for when this organization is ready to do this. The way it would work is, you would come to any of the Drift Fury events that we have on our schedule and if you get X amount of points at ONE of our events then you recieve your pro license. The other way to obtain you pro license would be if you came to the actual professional event and qualified the day before (similar to how FD used to do it). So, you would in the end have 2 choices to obtain your license. But please feel free to talk about how you think it would work best to qualify for a pro license.

As always, I am trying to come at this from a drivers perpective. I am trying to make sure that I listen to the peole who will ultimately make a series happen. No drivers = no series. I want to make sure that we hear all of the opinions and try to do the best we can to be fair to everyone. I think that getting input from the competitors is the best way to go about it.

feel free to e-mail me if you like tracy@batlground.com or you can post here.

[ReDc0aT]

im scared. im scared.

D1USA is in my prayers.

[Mute]

Resigned eh? Heh...history is written by the guy who writes it down.

"Message relayed from Sleepy today - he heard today that Mr Hideo Tomitaka resigned his job at D's Club ( D1 USA ) on September 28th.

It seems he has moved on to form his own events named ' DRIFTCAR of America ' without the D1GP tie-up which he describes as ' a true USA series of drifting '.

This news is very bad for D1 as Hideo was 'the' guy that organised the events in the USA both at Irwindale and Vegas and whom the Japanese relied on 100% to organise everything for the events.

His absence from D1 will no doubt have an effect on the events to come.

Andy"

I saw this at the D1GB forum.
http://www.d1gb.co.uk/forum/showthre...=2433#post2433

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