Build a drift slab?

[LarZ]

I saw balbriggan and assumed the term was 'slab'... it's not a track as such, it's a huge concrete slab.

I don't necessarily want to teach people (i'm in no position to). A facility like this, if channelled correctly, considering the surge in drifters in this country and the RSA's demand for safer drivers and driver education make this a potentially viable business opportunity in a sparsely populated area like Kerry. It would be great for the local economy and could potentially get a lot of the messing off the streets and into a safe/isolated environment...

For the record, i HATE 'diffin'... I even hate the word... I have never done it, and never will... anyone can do donuts.

I'm talking about sliding a car into a parking spot. Negotiating a corner whilst in a controlled slide. Anticipating braking distances, correcting slides, Learning about the physics of motoring and how to avoid being wreckless and still being able to have fun. If you don't have an accurate measure of a car's limits, it becomes more difficult to manage.

Hope i'm making a bit more sense now. apologies for being narky, i was just ignorant to the terminology.

[m3con]

http://www.driftireland.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=27687 prob something like this
Ur after

[LarZ]

Very like that alright... You'd probably be talking about 200k before you have anything worth talking about. Between the actual concrete and the car park facilities. But i wonder how you could make money and pay for any insurances you might need... Surely there's a way to make it into an actual business...

[MissSuz]

Very like that alright... You'd probably be talking about 200k before you have anything worth talking about. Between the actual concrete and the car park facilities. But i wonder how you could make money and pay for any insurances you might need... Surely there's a way to make it into an actual business...

Its called 'his family have money'

lol

[LarZ]

Its called 'his family have money'

lol

You assume i'm of an age where i depend on my family for money?

Money is easy to get if you have the right investors and the right business plan...

[MissSuz]

You assume i'm of an age where i depend on my family for money?

Money is easy to get if you have the right investors and the right business plan...

Im not assuming anything , Im just taking the piss really cuz its not a very feasible idea tbh.

[LarZ]

Im not assuming anything , Im just taking the piss really cuz its not a very feasible idea tbh.

If this wasn't feasible, then these facilities wouldn't exist. I'm not trying to create something that doesn't exist.

[keith-n]

Even if it is for diffing, what makes it not a viable venture. Ye know as well as i do there's twice the amount of differs out there than those who drift. And even if only charging 10er a go, you'll make as much out of a slab in a year as driftfest will in terms of money collected from participating entrants in a year.

Wasn't one of our best friends a serial competitior at king of the ring and a constant attendee of anything where rings were a remote possibility? And un ashamidly now competes in PD doing pretty well from his humble beginings on the cross roads?

First thing thought in Prodrift academy? Donuts. You dont just jump in a car and do a backward entry..... unless its in the back seat you spend your time.

So rings ain't cool anymore, their not accepted on DI. That doesnt make it a non runner.

IF it turns out to be a shlab, it'll take all the messers off the crossroads for a few weekends a summer and pocket somebody a few quid, at the very least break even over time and if built to a decent size allow for those actually serious about learning how to hold a drfit the opertunity to learn on a private area before venturing out on track.

Marks spot in waterford was a large concrete slab with silage pit walls still in place and i have tonnes of vids of members from here holding drift around it. Its not a massive size, nor would it cost a fortune to construct one from scratch.

Btw, it'll never happen.... just idle ramblings of someone who's heart may be in the right place just doesnt know enough about the project to be a credible force behind it. Theres 2 tracks i know of in kerry which could be rented to learn on. By posting a thread on here with no information or credible plan to back up the thread just a bunch of questions shows the niavity of the OP in terms of this topic.

Lock er up, or let the vultures in. Dead thread, pointless topic

[dermot-r32]

lads would ye relax on him.its an idea he was thinking of and asked for advice/info....is the site not made for info/help with anything drift related?

tbh man.i would LOVE something in kerry but i think it would be a complete non runner..wouldnt get around legal/costs/complaints etc

the likes of driftfest etc are the best bet really and think i heard there testing somewhere in kerry for a track?

my 2c anyway

[m3con]

As much as they hate it on here ya have to have diffin days and other such
Events as drifting alone will not cover it private hire and other types of racing
Need to b able to use it people on here seem to think
These places build and maintain themselves if ur planning something try and
Accommodate as many different sports as possible and remember
It only takes one arsehole to make a noise complaint and then the council will
Make life very difficult for ya so choose your location very carefully