If I may say my piece...
Keep in mind that we must not allow Drifting to end up like other forms of motorsports in this country: dead and/or boring with absolutely no future.
Do you guys know that Drifting is the most exciting sh*t motorsports-wise in a long time? Do you know how difficult it was for me and Khaidi and Sutan and god-knows how many other wannabe-racing-drivers to go racing, and how crappy the vents are, how there is no publicity, how there is no sponsorship.. just simply no goddamn future..
..and then along comes drifting!! With all the noise and spectacle and excitement, the crowds and the colour and the attention, the media and press coverage, and eagerness of companies to sponsor drivers and cars and events..
Whatever happens.. WE ALL NEED TO FRICKING STICK TOGETHER!!!
We can't allow drifting to go down the wrong path and end up dead just like karting or saloon car racing or rallying. This is the last bastion of honest motorsports, let's not spoil it.
Why do you think during SSO events I'm so concerned for safety, and looking good, and discipline?? We need to grow Drifting into it's own event, earn the respect of the rest of the motorsports community, and have organisations like AAM come to us and get us to join, not the other way around whereby in the past anyone wanting to run an event has to beg and plead and pamper AAM and waste time and money on them.. for what?!?
Anyway.. over the next few weeks.. I'm hoping to organise a sitdown between our 3 organisations.. and we gotta map out a blueprint, a master plan.. to keep Drifting OUR GAME and not THEIR GAME.. We will play it OUR WAY, not THEIR WAY..
For the love of the drifting god (Tsuchiya haha!) stop the b*tching and complaining and finger-pointing and whatever, and band together for a better drifting future.
Here's an example: Street Soccer & Futsal.
When Street Soccer and Futsal 1st started out, they played whenever and wherever they liked, and FAM didn't care coz they thought it was just a hooligans game.. but they kept tight, didn't let FAM get close.. and now, Street Soccer and Futsal in our country have their very own organisations which act independently of FAM, and vow that they will never fall into the dismay that FAM is. As for Futsal and Street Soccer? It's the fastest growing game in the country, if not the planet!!
So, keep in perspective. There IS a bigger picture to what we're all doing.
And now.. I will say nothing more on the matter. I hope everyone here understands how important our position is.
/adian