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Kyle,

I thought the 'last squeeze' at the end of the day with the 2 laps for all the drivers should be implemented in the rest of the events.

 

what about a 2-day event? half and half both days...? It would run a little more for a hotel or something but you would get a lot more seat time....???

 

Awesome, I was hoping for all these new opinions and suggestions.

Everyone with the 'Not enough seat time' complaint. You are 100% correct. I even said it myself, "man i wish i could have gotten everyone at least a few more laps". trust me that was one of my main goals. But due to the event starting late coupled with 51 drivers (I initially set the cut off at 40 but it the track either forgot to stop at 40 or the person at registration just didnt know).

While I was helping to tech cars to get started I remember going car 19 and then a little later I hear "yo thats 49 cars". SHIT! I was happy because we got so many people out, but I was worried because I hoped that with the high amount of cars, I didnt think everyone would get enough seat time.

So yes, next time, with better communication with the staff/track there wont be more than 40 cars.

At the end of the day when the weather was getting bad I was plagued with the task on deciding whether I would cut it off and send everyone home or if i'd run another session. Thats when I started yelling on the megaphone to any and all drivers that wanted to drive to get in their cars NOW and get in line. I wasnt leaving without giving you guys the opportunity to drive at least 2 more times.

So yes, I agree with the fact that 10 laps wasnt enough, and I'm truely sorry. Next time I do plan on having a strict cut off at 40 cars only and we WILL get started earlier. I'll have a date for the next event within a week or two.

As far as night-track-events for $35 dollars goes...Stuff like this is the track owners are getting a bit ahead of themselves. $35/driver would barely cover insurance and misc expenses. They do not understand that a basic track insurance policy will not cover a drift event.

For a drift event, you must have drift-specific insurance where "drifting" is actually listed on the insurance policy as the activity being done. I can tell you right now unfortunately you will never drift on a track for $35/driver.

Frequency of events: Maybe not by the end of this year, but starting January of 2005, expect 1 event per month. I promise you this. Its not going to be easy to do but Trust myself and the rest of the dg staff plan on busting our ass to get you more frequent events with better seat time.

CLIFFNOTES
no you didnt have enough seat time. I know this. you will next time.

drifting for $35/driver is impossible, the track owners were getting ahead of themselves.

if not by the end of this year, starting january 2005 expect at least 1 event per month in florida. promised.

 

When people hear about the $25/day Englishtown DOFs and DOWs, that is possible because Englishtown Raceway Park is using their own insurance instead or a 3rd patry's.

We're lucky enough to have a track to drift on (our "pot to piss in"?) and an owner who is as involved as they were (Jeff was driving the golf cart around to help and talking to drivers all day, which was amazing).

The seat time issue has already been addressed, but I'd like to add that there were remarkably few cars breaking down - does anyone remember Miami Slide part 1 where we were accually WAITING for drivers and their cars to line up at the start? Its often hard to say what the attrition rate will be at drift events, and that can effect the amount of runs you get.

Doing a two-day event would most likely be limited by the availibility of the track and whether insurance would allow it.

I stand by Kyle and can also promise that next time your $100 will go farther.

 

it was worth driving 5 hours up there! thanks to MRanlet for the hospitality and the rest of the DG crew for a rocking event!

 

Anytime, thanks for coming up!

 

Yesterday was my first dift event, i was there in support for my bf and i couldnt have been more entertained. Good job to all the drifters.

 

Kyle. I'd really like to thank you and whoever else came up with the idea to announce the updates for the hurricane. The extra hour or so you saved myself and 8 of my friends basically saved me from having to hydrolock or abandon my integra on the way home, it wasnt long after I arrived home that all of the roads in orlando leading to where I lived were decently flooded. We were able to drop the teg off and evacuate to a friends house off of 27 that was much stronger.

Cliff notes

Thanks a bunch for looking out for the fans as well as the drivers.

 

Kyle, give yourself props! You did an amazing job. Thank you so much!!

 

Kyle, can you please explain to us what insurance Englishtown uses whenthey let people run DOW and DOF for 35 dollars??

As far as I know they can't even have drift events in parking lots with insurance.. WHy can't the track use their own kind of insurance?

Why can't the track call it a track night, and you can grip it , or drift it, it doesn't matter, your'e still running the track?"