Does anyone have any suggestions for 2006? I personally would like a few things to change and am working on it now. Let me know and I’ll relay it over to Ryan at Beaverun and see what we can do. Thanks.
Make open lapping days not $150
It says suggestions for drift days not open lapping days. Plus $150.00 isn’t bad for an open lapping day.
definatly liked the practice/comp combo…
the $20 practice and $50 comp was lame, having both for a cheaper price gets more people involved… therefore should stick
I like that a lot better too Jon, I’ll see if we can do that all next season whenever there is a comp. I’d like there to do a practice once a month and a practice/comp once a month. Maybe have the practice the second weekend of the month and the comp/practice the last weekend. That way you have to to get tires and fix your car if it breaks. Keep the suggestions coming please.
I wanna see you drift the passat!
get out your McDonalds trays!
almost as fun as a nice snowfall!
That would make practice and event BACK TO BACK the following month.
Remember that phone conversation we had John. I do.
Keep the suggestions coming please. It will only help for a better season.
Just a question, but do other people find a problem with competitors friend’s judging a contests? I think judges need to be properly trained and have drift experience with ties to no one to make it fair. Just my opinion what do you guys think?
i concur
Although i have never been to these events I have heard enough rumours about them to make me not want to attend. From what i heard a person will set up the course skewed for them to perform better. Then they will be in the contest and their friends judge the contest. dunno something goofy about that.
The whole thing i hate about drifting is the judging. Its always going to be put under such scrutiny that it does not make it fun when you are competing. Its kind of like figure skating.
I agree Hoagie Master, ever since I have been drifting I have dealt with unfair judging. At first i notice it with DgTrials and now with Strictfab. Maybe one day we will get a judge who has drifted and is not bias. I have notice that some people can’t follow a race line even if it was drawn out for them.
if you have never been at the events why would you have to put any input into this. that makes no sence to me you are putting your 2 cents in and have never been there.
i think i set up great coarses but what you dont know is i am made to set up coarses that the masses can do,ask ryan. actually the coarse is skewed tward people with less ability to drift. if it was up to me that coarse would be so hard and fast only a select few could do it.
get off the bandwagon on the judge thing cause you have NEVER been there. thanks
remember you said "i have never been to these events "
thanks for your opinion
marc
please get a clue sir
race line? this is drift thats a whole nother line bro
strictfab? what do they have to do with this judging they are the sponsor. they supply the prizes! you do like prizes dont you little buddy?
please let everyone know why you say its bias? how did you get shafted by dg trials? please enlighten us.
do you drift? what do you drive?
And one of the judging points is like any were else is Speed, Angle, and Race Line. You should know that is was said at the drivers meeting.
Some posts in the New Members section would be nice - kind of car, where you’re from, etc.
please answer some of my questions and your questions will be answered following your response. lets not avoid the questions at hand.
Line: best drift line not race line. Quite commonly on a lot of tracks here in the US there are two different lines. Your qualifying line and competition line. In qualifying line, it’s all about you! You and the battle against the track. To show your true skills on how quick you can adapt your skills as a driver and the ability to bring out the energy the track holds.
Competition line is not as flamboyant, a little tighter but not to tight, this is a battle against drivers to show who is a better lion tamer. Taming the track bring out the best drift and making it look easy.
Excitement and style: a lot of people came up to me and ask me “I feel I did everything right, why did I loose?” Sometimes there right. They ran the line, they hit the clipping points, they might have bellowed smoke exiting, but my answer most of the time is “the other person did better.” See as a judge we don’t just judge with our eyes, we also hear it too. We listen when your on or off throttle. We listen when your back on throttle before or after the clipping point. We listen what gear you come in at and see you turning your wheel left when you should be turning right. When a driver is in the “zone” quite often it’s a good run. What makes this such a great sport is when the driver is on game he literally transforms, this is when it separates the men from the boys. They put their nuts on the table and takes it to the edge, they are the ones that gets closes to the walls, that just guns the car before the apex and just sling shots their car across the track, “No Fear” that’s all I can say. And when you see these guys “in the zone” you can fell it, the crowds feel it, that’s when you know you got a winner. That’s excitement and style.
Ken Takahashi said
i’ll be the first to admit, I’m not a driver, nor do I pretend to be one. As a judge I feel it is my duties to give them a fair and non-bias event. And is my obligation to the drivers to legitimately make calls that explanations can clarify. Drifters are a different breed, their not followers but more trend setters, rebels, they were drifting when drifting wasn’t cool, they didn’t care. You can’t tell these people to conform without explanation, you have to earn their respect. These guys are out there driving 110% driving with all there heart. And sometimes when I’m standing up there in the judges stand it blows me away the passion these boys have for this sport and it humbles me to try that much more to make the “hard call”.
so i feel you dont have to be a drifter
jesus saves