Who do i get started in racing?
 

Just looking for some info on how i can get started and what i would need to do so i have been drifting for about 6 yrs now and i like speed my max speed was 220 kH on my bike and I am interested is starting to race cars.

Thanks, DC:D

What kind of racing are you interested in?

Drifting

well, since drifting isnt' racing, I guess you're pretty well screwed

LOL... that's the funniest thing I've read in a long time. Good thing I'd already set down my drink, or it would have been all over the monitor!

LOL

But seriously, if you want to compete in drifting your best bet would be to move down to Southern California. Build a car and come down for the Formula D competions or the next D1 drivers search.

We need a DriftTech Forum....

Both The SCCA and NASA eill be sanctioning Drift schools and compeititions this year -
check out their web sites:

http://www.calclub.com/
https://www.nasaproracing.com/

It's funny, but Silkworm is right. Drifting is a hobby/talent/fun time/whatever else you want to call it.

[drifters advocate]
Well, technically, at the club racing level, racing is nothing but a hobby/talent/fun time/waiste of money/whatever else you want to call it.
{/drifters advocate]
;)

um... look at the location... ONTARIO, couldn't be any further unless he was from quebec

also, since you say you've done it for six years, you should be good enough to try and start your own club up in canada

Re: Who do i get started in racing?
 

I see a contradiction... ;)

***well, since drifting isnt' racing, I guess you're pretty well screwed***

Silkworm, if ya get two of those DRIFTERS W2W about as close as ya can get without trading paint I'd call that racing. he he heee ; )

Which reminds me of the last race of the season at Blackhawk Farm @ the drop of the green flag just before the 1st turn I squeezed between two cars. While going thru the turn 3 wide on cold tires I shrugged my shoulders )( (to get narower) cause I thought I was going to have body work on both sides. 3 wide with no rubbing & the friken track is at max 3 lanes wide. Didn't have time to look, maybe the outside car was doing some agricultural experimentation.

David

Drifting events are judged like an ice skating competions. Its up to the judge and if they don't like what they see your screwed even if you have all the skill in the world. Way to subjective. In a timed racing event you can look like crap but as long as you have a better time you win.

Now explain to us again how drifting is racing?

Isn't drifting a recent "sport"....?

6 years - maybe if this dude was living in Japan, but apart from doing your home made version around the local back-roads, then this smells :)

And I would like to see anyone "drift" at 220... all the stuff I have seen, including the team drifting is at much more sedate speeds........?

Want to get into racing? First rob a few banks this should get you started, Second forget any relationship plans you might have Girlfriend, Wife, Dog, etc. Next, work on sleep deprivation. Ok, now your ready. Go out choose a car any thing will work. Do some reasearch, get good and confused, start modifying soon you will discover its not fast enough and it handles like shit repeat this process as much as you like and call your self a Racer Congradulations

a drifting topic comes up and suddenly everyone on this forum turns into assholes?

I thought this was one of the coolest forums on this board.

Could we please not get into another arguement about if drifting is racing. It's not. What it is is fun. I love drifting and hope to be competing in it by the end of the year. I'd also like to road race eventually when I have more money. We all got into motorsports because it's fun. Let's try and not forget that.

That sums it up nicely. I culminated three straight weeks of averaging 5 hours of sleep a night while working my day job and prepping the ITS car by driving 9 hours to Atlanta on Friday. Getting up at 5am Saturday morning to be at the track and get rained on for about 3 hours. Loaded out of Road Atlanta at 6pm and drove 8 hours straight home (two stops for Sobe!). And I loved every minute of it!:D

And drifting is not racing. Whether it's wheel to wheel or not. Two cars drifting together are never fighting for the same spot on the track. It takes talent to do it right...sure enough. But it's not racing. Where are they racing to? The guy that gets there first can still lose because he didn't do it as pretty as the other guy? Nope. Not racing.

I get up earlier to go race than I do to go to work :D You've got to have your priorities straight ;)

In drifting, who exactly are you "racing"? Nobody, its a sport. It doesn't matter who crosses the finish line first.

im not sure but i think driftclub is a kid who juss watched initial d or some drift vids... any1 get that feeling but me?

I like drifting.... on my 10 speed bike in the snow :) it's bad ass!

do one thing at a time....last year I went to those drifting events, then it really messed up my autocross driving....

no, drifting is not racing....but it does matter how fast you are going... speed is judged just as much as how much of an angle you are getting.

Soo. Because YOU didn't hear about drifting until recently it MUST be a NEW sport?. Apparently you are the final say in what is or what isn't racing.

People are competeting against eachother....whether they are judged subjectivly or by time it is STILL racing. All you guys bitching and considering drifting as dumb and just fun...Grow up and admit you are jealous you don't have the car control to do it!!!!!

Also ......My uncle and I ( when i lived in Florida) went TT racing( autocross) every weekend. These were timed and the winner got NO $$$$. The point here is that this "racing" that we were doing ,...was only considered a hobby or fun thing to do by everyone who raced there. So for you guys to draw a line in the sand and say that YOU will not allow it to be classified as racing., you just sound stupid. Get over it and try it,...you may like it!...BTW: I DO NOT DRIFT... I am just sick of seeing all you friggin babies bitching about this topic. I race and I consider drifting a "form" of racing....

Also his comment about going 220 was stated as a fact that he likes to go fast. ( and he is saying in KPH) Nowhere does it say he drifts his bike at 220KPH. Get your arguments straight before you talk. Oh yeah one last thing....way to support a fellow rotory enthusiaest;) Regardless of if he/she is a little kid!

Drifting IS NOT racing for the simple reason that the word racing implies a timed event.....get from point A to B faster than the other guy......

So I dont even understand how anyone could consider drifting racing....Sure it may be an "autosport" like trials riding but by definition it IS NOT RACING!!!Period.

Now you guys can bitch about whether it is a legitament Autosport!!!!!!!!

BigIslandSevens hold your wad there man; ajazeller is right.

Drifting is a form of competition, but it is not a form of racing.

Sorry I guess i didn't express my sarcasm well enough. Most of my emotion was being stupid and joking. Sorry i didn't show it well enough. I iagree that it is a form of motorsport./competition Like trials, Intresting you say trials I happened to ride trials.(you may have figured out trials from my profile, and i don't consider it racing) Sorry all , no offense intended;)

Motorcycle trials? The "little" bikes that guys climb 20 foot rock faces with? Those guys are nuts :p:

What an incredible thread. It is amazing that those who drift or like drifting have any reason to defend the idea that it is not racing. What, are you a closet racer that just happens to think think drifting is a equivlent substitution? Jump on the drifting bandwagon and you are the shit! Imply drifting some how requires a level of car control that transends other forms racing. Since we are general in our description of racing, I'm sure you mean all for of racing too, right. Gee, I never knew the best drivers in the world were drifters. Seems if I was the best I'd be making millions in Rally, F1 or NASCAR. I think the skating analogy is used best. There is skating racing and their is skating competitions. Skating racing (i.e. speed skating) requires a winner defeat his competition as a matter of speed. Said well by ajazeller. No style points! Winner ahead of other competitors in terms of first one over the line wins. Thats objective. Skating competitions requires a tremendious level of skill, disipline and control. But reality check here, they are not racers nor are they racing. The are judged. That is subjective. They are competing. Drifters, no need to defend yourselves as racers. Your not. You are competitiors in a competitive sport that requires skill. Unfortunatly, your sport requires a certian subjectiveness and that is the difference. Its not better, its not worse just different. If you want to be a racer, go race. If you want to drift, then drift. It is obvious that they use some of the same skills so you could do both. In one car control is part of a means to and end-winning in racing. In the other, its tyhe end. Drifting is not racing.

Oh and one more thing, this section is made up of people who have paid a fair amout of dues and money over a long period of time to earn a wise and educated opinion about what they do. For anybody to appear and support a demand that is not necessary other than for the sake of arguement, is not wisley choosing their battles. As far as I know skating racers and figure skaters, motocross racers and freestlyers, downhill ski racers and freestylers, all have no problem understanding the difference in their sports.

Yep they are nuts!! Lots of skill but NO racing involved. ( so far I have tackled a 6 foot verticle, 20 some day:) ;) )