Is Drifting Dead in Ireland

[LarZ]

Not on any side of the fence here but there's more to organising a track day than most people think. Charging on the gate is usually to satisfy the venue and the organisers are lucky to see any of it. I don't know about WGH but Mondello keep all gate proceeds for practice days. I'd encourage anyone who wants to give it a go to set up drift days in WGH and Tynagh. The hunger is there, people are queueing up to do practice days there.

As Stevo said, road cars are definitely back and getting more popular. Drifting is far from dead too. People come and go from drifting as with any sports really.

[Diarmuid]

Not on any side of the fence here but there's more to organising a track day than most people think. Charging on the gate is usually to satisfy the venue and the organisers are lucky to see any of it. I don't know about WGH but Mondello keep all gate proceeds for practice days. I'd encourage anyone who wants to give it a go to set up drift days in WGH and Tynagh. The hunger is there, people are queueing up to do practice days there.

As Stevo said, road cars are definitely back and getting more popular. Drifting is far from dead too. People come and go from drifting as with any sports really.

Of course mondello keep all monies. As they should. It's a professional bussines. Decent track. Plenty marsh etc etc.
but how can a group run an event with out been able to first orginise practice sessions. I ended up just getting a bunch of mates together then ring wgh and got dates from them. €80 I think it was. More than enough track time to be fair.
Of course people come and go. And have other intrests.

[mk2glenn]

I'm only on the scene lately but it's taken off around here. Even in the last 6 months it's gone from 1 or 2 lads with drift cars to at least 10.

On the other hand, a lot of these people have no real heed in their car and all it needs is to be RWD. But we're all only starting so we might have nice builds some day!

Apart from Mondello, theres nothing decent around here at all. Nutts Corner is average & lethal, Athboy is available but a touch small.

[Smokey Bear]

I think drifting is too expensive for the hacking that's happening. A grassroots practice day is about 300 quid. The entry fees are too much because of track prices. Look at drift land in uk can go drifting for about half the price. If that was sorted out then I think more practice days could be run. It's a bit of a vicious circle now, can't organise lots of WGH practice days because they won't all fill up. The more that one organiser runs the better they get at it and better the whole thing is run.

I broke my drift car and bought a kart because if I decide I want to on a Sunday morning I can just turn up at the track and pay 50 quid and drive it until I can't lift my arms. Too much assholing around to get a drift car out put it on trailer etc for the same of the short amount of track time at the practice day and when it comes down to competing it's whoever crosses the line first wins rather than from what I can see at idc where there is bad judgment calls ruining people's days out and again from what I can see short track time. I don't know but drifting is nearly more hassle than it's worth from a point of view of driving. Road cars are easier but the. You've got to weigh up is it worth the risk.