| People buy a random RWD car, drift it a bit on the street or at a practice day somewhere like Santa Pod, they love it, they buy some bits and bobs for the car like suspension, welded diff, bucket seat, often more power, then drift some more, then drift some more, then they wanna do BDC or similar so they build the car to spec then if it's finished prior to the championship starts they drift some more, and during this time they get their drift license at a licensing day.
I drifted purely on streets in my nearly standard sierra for a year, then went to a couple of practice days and more streeto for 6 months, then had a range of crappy RWD cars which I tried to get to practice days but often couldn't afford so drifted on the streets some more. Now I'm consequentially banned from driving (vehicle condition as a result of drifting, not actually for my driving) and have taken the time out to build my car to BDC safety regs and make a good go of it. I started drifting January 2005.
Some people started maybe a year ago and have just had the money and time available, and sometimes skill, to get themselves into the BDC this season. |