Boo hoo. Open track days cost 3x or 4x more than a drift practice and you NEVER see people bitching about those prices.
You guys are also saying that you don't like the tracks so you want the events to be cheaper? Build a track then! If you think that event organizers are gonna operate at a loss so you can be happy, you're wrong. You guys would crap if you knew how much it was to rent Sebring, Daytona, or Homestead...$100 per driver wouldn't come close to covering the cost of events at those facilities and insurance costs for those places is a whole other problem...IF you can even manage to get insurance. We'd need FAR more driver participation for that to happen.
That's a complaint of mine...driver participation and attitude in this state. You want more? Put in more. Show up to events, even as a spectator. If you're not supporting the scene, you're harming the scene. Drifting will never grow if people are too busy bitching instead of participating. Once it grows, things will only get better. We should be thankful that we even have organizers like DGT and Ter-Tech who are dedicated to making this sport grow. Not every state has drift events let alone 2 organizations hosting them. And how about grassroots drift competitions with good prize money and prizes? Tell me where else you can find that for $100 or less per competition, please.
The funny thing is, the people you see out at almost every event, the "regulars" if you will, never complain...EVER. They may offer suggestions for improvements but 9x out of 10 they sing songs of thanks and praise. Go figure.
<3 Ter-Tech and DGT for even giving us something to complain about.