sakuraguy said:
This will put DRIFT as same line into Rally, Formula 3000, AFOS and even Formula 1.
In Malaysia, you cannot survive if you are full time race driver or drifter even if your are involve in those league of motorsports
Formula 1? Alex Yong?
Although he had sponsorshop from a few major companies, his family still had to spend hundreds of thousands to get in into the cockpit of the Minardi.
AFOS?
Most of them are part time race drivers, full time businessmen, business entrepeuneurs, singer, actors, filial son of mutlti million father, etc.
Rally? Karamjit Singh.
He is APRC champion but is he getting the reckonition he deserves? AFAIK, He has to work to subsidies his racing career.
DOn't talk about being a race driver, being a full fledge racing motorsports workshop is impossible to survive.
Talk to ANY tuner or motorsport workshop and ask them if they can survive by purely doing only motorsports related work(performance modifications, race tuning, etc) in Malaysia.
THe answer is a big NO.
Maybe in future, but at this point in time, I can say its impossible to give up our day jobs and be a full time race driver / drifter. (Unless your family is rich and you have millions of ringgit of trust fund)