WGH Practice Days GONE!!!

[s13-ste]

My source is well n truly not reliable in this case so!!!

oh your some fucking homo!
so its not fact and you went and told the world. and we all know because its on the interweb its true!

[jdmjimmy]

chuck g ur a whore!!lol

[markos]

Right lads, sent kartworld an email this morning asking did they have any idea when the drift practice days would be starting up again and this is the reply i got:
''Hi Tom, The dates will be going up on our website soon, they have not yet been confirmed, so just keep a look out.''

so is the practice days back on or what so

[Falvey]

@markos: Its not 100% certin at the moment, we'll just have to wait and see do they put the dates on their website over the next couple of weeks www.kartworld.ie.

[Cooldrft]

I rang them this evening.
Receptionist said dave is undecided about running the practice days.
They have got a good few calls about them,I was told to keep a eye on their website.

I think if lads continue to ring + e-mail them ,he might run a practice day.

[Fredericks Balls]

Have u met the man?? Theres no genuine reason, he doesnt like drifting thats all!

Lads, who ownes WGH these days, is it still Walshie??

[Cooldrft]

Lads, who ownes WGH these days, is it still Walshie??

It is yea.

[Prodrifter86]

What's behind this? I heard a while back that it was looking likely but never told any reason. That Kiltorcan place or somewhere really needs to get into this niche now

tony in kiltorcan wont run these days cuz when D-rift was there for a round after kiltorcan was re-done! a bunch of Dickheads pulled down some of the brand new fencing! and he said he wont be holding a drifting comp ever again!
wudnt blame him eithier! and also that alot of rubber on the track may piss off the irish and british kart racers!

[Fredericks Balls]

Ok well to ad my 2 cents to this. First off ive never been at any WGH drift days.

I do know Walshie since 1992 though, infact I bought my first kart off him etc etc.

Firstly, as Peter pointed out, if hes making big money from drift days he's hardly going to just stop cos he doesnt like drifters or whatever. At the end of the day money is money. Its a business for him.

It could be that he hasnt got insurance to cover this and to get it now would be too expensive, or that the track doesnt actually permit this.

Noise is an issue there, always has been, even for karts. Its in a valley and you can see the houses around. Whatever about karts and racing cars but with drifting you get a different type of noise (i.e. tyre noises etc) and maybe this is irritating locals more so than just the noise level. Who knows. Either way if its become a legal matter he's not obliged to tell every one the ins and out of it which is why nobody knows for sure.

And just to clarify, im not a fan of Dave. He treated the karters like crap in the past, and again was all about money and power then, so Im not on his side, but i can safely say he wouldnt stop for the sake of it.

Best to wait and hear the full TRUE story eh...

[Drift Allstars]

Lads theres a few things , i know dave with years used to work for him, and live 5 minutes from the track.I spoke to him about this over christmas and wouldnt blame him if he stopped the drifting

- There was poor numbers turning up to days, only just over 10 before christmas

-Noise is a major issue, why put a venue under risk for a €800 , over just abit of drifting, i wouldnt bother with the hassle

-Burnouts in the pits(There is kart dummy grid there painted int he Tarmac)They need that for kartign events.Burnouts in general just warm up the tyres on the first lap, ive seen people tke tarmac up on karttracks just doing burnouts!!!

-Dirtdrops, in the grass, we all think its cool, but just stay off it

-General drifting on the way back out of the venue, people speeding, all the local neighbours go mental over it trust me!!!

Ive seen it happen in the UK a people expect practice days every week ,venue gets overused, no one turns up, practice days get diluted, track owner either gets pissed off with the hassle, or the council close them down for noise another venue lost

My advice, starting getting a list here, set up a driftireland paypal service, get a mod to run it
-Prebook on here
-Need to fill 30 bookings at least minimum
-Book dates before an event of PD Week before
-DONT have dates every month but maybe every 4-6 weeks

All money paid upfront before each practice day €3000 + whatever 10 dates a year - €30k , he aint gonna turn that away

Im lucky im in the UK and have 25 + venues to access but ye dont really have an option anymore with so many tracks been closed in ireland and mondello/bishopscourt being the other only major track available for hire /events

if ye dont sort your act out soon, there will be no where to drift, and its kind of down to this forum