listen dammit. stop taking it so personal. THEY ARE RIPPING YOU OFF. your getting nothing in return for your 'showing of skill' or the hardwork building the car. Racers are there to win a purse/points/championship. Your there purely for crowd entertainment and excitement. You are losing money left and right in travel, tires, and vehicle abuse...

if you dont think you are worth a hamburger and free entry then you need to open your eyes man. do you think they charge the guy jumping a stunt car on fire through RV trailers to come in? Or the guy running a jet car simply to melt a '88 tercel.

No one is dissing the venue itself either. I get that they want PR, but they want you to pay them, to advertise for them. It would be like ABC paying people to put their commercials on their channel.

They want to charge for a drift event = MAKES SENSE. Charge you to drive for their crowd = WTF. There is nothing special about the track to make me want to PAY to drive it to help boost their 'already scheduled' race. And in no way is a hamburger going to make them broke- no one is asking them to shell out $200 a driver.

you can pay if you like, but its "demos" like this that let them think its ok to treat us like junk scraps and not as a trained driver. we as drivers need to realize our TALENT is as good as CASH sometimes and just use it as such. Tell them you'll pay $25 for insurance and you charge $100 to display your talents, or you'll be nice this time and call it even for just some grub. Heh.

Its not a BAD IDEA, its a GREAT IDEA to do a demo, but they need to be serious on charging you to do it for them.