Drifting Career Start - how to start the modifications?
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MrLuke
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Previously, still very occasionally - I know a guy down the road who buys and sells F1 cars for a living, he might bring one up once a year for a tear up. The only F1 testing near here is at Duxford and Satan Pod, I can hear them at Duxford from my house though
Ah I was going to guess you were at duxford as I know you are fairly local. Close but no cigar lol.
More than likely, but an mx5 would also be perfect for said kid, not got silly power, small enough and can learn to skid properly instead of getting a mega powered car straight away, hell im the first ot admit i done it wrong. i went from a 325 to a 540 within 4 and a bit drift days but hey couldnt turn the car down for how much it was.
Bladerider
Ajudged scoundrel !!
Heres a few things to explain the reactions you are getting...
1...Drifting in the UK hasnt been around for "a big period of time" yet, in fact you havent existed on the planet for a particularly "big period of time" hence why people who are often in their mid twenties and thirties are finding you a bit of a joke.
2...When you have been on this site for a year or two you will start to understand that these threads crop up very regularly, partiocularly when their is either a re run of Tokyo Drift on the telly or the schools are on holiday. You may be the next Lewis Hamilton, but frankly even if you are we couldnt give a toss and will just lump you in with the thousand other nerks who have already said they are gonna reinvent the drifting wheel and have all to a man failed, gone away and usually with an infection in their bottoms from Jack or Sam. !!
3...Everyone on here who actually drifts, which admittedly is only maybe 0.5% of the users has already started somewhere - at the beginning, where you should - and whilst alot of us dream of competing or being the next Dorikin (look it up) we also understand that even the very best Pro Drivers (who we are friends with as alot of us started together at roughly the same time or we have come to know by being here and in the scene rather than just asking stupid questions cos our balls itch) dont earn a penny from drifting the cars, so a "career" is a bit of a misnomer. Filling makes a career out of it by having this place that took a huge number of supporters and good vibes to make, he and James put their futures on the line and their houses in harms way to create and finance and it also employs a few of their friernds, but none of them actually earn from driving. Mr Buff gets help with transport and a car to drive last time I knew and still ends up spending thousands a year on travel, lost work and costs and he is one of maybe three drivers who are asked to drive for teams. Flat Eric and Dmac are living the dream to an extent but effectively work at it as well as having businesses related to the scene and spanner alot of stuff themselves and to be honest Im a bit out of touch with every little thing so perhaps there is maybe a couple of others from the UK scene who are doing perhaps guest drives, but it certainly wouldnt pay a mortgage and I think everyone of them is actually still down financially compared to them being a normal non drifting person with fishing as a hoby.
4...The long run is virtually out of sight. The Japanese guys in the main run their own cars from their own garages, sponsor themselves and each other and its very rare for them to be a paid driver. The US probably has more that do but even then alot of them either drive in other motorsports or have links to that world. The only guys in the UK who were like that were Tim, Tom and the New Zealand guy whose name escapes me, and all of them just got drives for free so it appeared on their CV with expenses covered.
Im glad you like drifting and Im glad you want to do it and I dare say you have seen us all up at Knockhill with EDC or BDC given your location, and dont stop wanting to do it as a hobby. But for pitys sake stop using the "career" word as it just marks you out as a cock !!
Oh and if you want to search for the many threads that have gone before then use terms like "first drift car" "start drifting" "whci drift learn" etc as the points you want to know about have several thousand useful replies from several years of questions, hence why its a bit boring repeating the same stuff.
Good Luck.
you know something, if you wanna know more about drifting etc come up to crail on the 2nd of june, its a saturday there will be plenty of different drift cars up there everything from bmws to skylines and s13/14/15 etc. come up have a talk with some folk if your really wanting to know more and are serious about it all.
docwra
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Bourn Airfield actually mate, its sickeningly large, loads of service roads and all sorts. Id sneak on but the ladlord actually lives overlooking it, worse luck, and I kinda need my office more than I do somewhere to skid up a bit. Zornyan reckons he knows somewhere in Thetford though, not had a working car to go check it out yet though
royal
S1- F.T break!
Goddam! you've changed
The lads got £2k and no job and no licence. It'll cost £500 or more to get a licence so that leaves £1500. It'll be £500-1000 for insurance. There's a 0.0000001% chance that he would do the clever thing and buy a £500 old sh*tter and weld the diff and cut the springs. That would leave £500 which after petrol costs might cover a couple of drift days. Much more likely is he'll spend all the money on the best car he can find for £2k and it wont leave the driveway.
To the thread starter: (free airfield aside) a cheap drift practice day costs probably minimum £250 once you take into account petrol, tyres, travel, etc. A day at a decent track often comes closer to £500. The best advice in my opinion if you truly wanted to be the next DriftKing is to look at what jobs pay loads of money and get studying because this is what you need if you are going to spend enough practice time to really get good. Drifting is cheaper than many motorsports but its very hard to do anything serious with cars on a budget.
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akinadan79
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....and small enough to pop in your pocket and catch the bus to a DWYB
Bladerider
Ajudged scoundrel !!
LOL !!
No,
But the site is deffo corrupted - it even has one of those moderator icons under spazzicles name ffs !! lol
Although I think his account has been hacked as Dave rightly points out - he's changed !! lol
I had to lulz when the OP said about being the next Nomuken. I suspect Im one of the few people on here to have employed him to drift, and even then he didnt get the money !! lol
J.
Goddam! you've changed
The lads got £2k and no job and no licence. It'll cost £500 or more to get a licence so that leaves £1500. It'll be £500-1000 for insurance. There's a 0.0000001% chance that he would do the clever thing and buy a £500 old sh*tter and weld the diff and cut the springs. That would leave £500 which after petrol costs might cover a couple of drift days. Much more likely is he'll spend all the money on the best car he can find for £2k and it wont leave the driveway.
To the thread starter: (free airfield aside) a cheap drift practice day costs probably minimum £250 once you take into account petrol, tyres, travel, etc. A day at a decent track often comes closer to £500. The best advice in my opinion if you truly wanted to be the next DriftKing is to look at what jobs pay loads of money and get studying because this is what you need if you are going to spend enough practice time to really get good. Drifting is cheaper than many motorsports but its very hard to do anything serious with cars on a budget.
i understand what your trying to say, but i have 2k for a car which is all sorted, i know that i have to pay loads for my driving test too but i already have everything sorted, it shouldn't worry everyone on this forum, what should is answering the question which has been answered
Thanks a lot (at last someone that understands), after people telling me theres no really much career or making money out of it, i will do it for fun - thats why i'd start drifting in the first place.
I have found a few toyota supra's that have been going for just under 2k and im debating whether i want a full on beast like that or just a volvo 340 just to muck around with as a start.
and also as a 'career' i mean't going for the top 32, kinda be up with the stars after a decent amount of time doing it would be nice
Much respect for a decent indepth answer
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wouldn't be insuring it, ain't going on road.
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