I want to know what is needed to put on a race event, say if I wanted to host my own. I have been thinking about it seriously for a few years now. I used to be an unofficial part of race legal and was for probably 4 years. (http://www.racelegal.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) Their "goal" was to get kids off the street. It worked well at first but they shot themselves in the foot and now most people don't trust them enough to come back. Out of the many things that happened there I think having police officers sit outside the event was the worst. When racers left they would be issued fix-it tickets or be found out for an illegal engine swap. Not to mention that 1/8th mile drag got boring after a while.
There are no tracks in the San Diego area either. Street racers don't trust reacelegal and are not going to drive hours to get to a track. If you look at the number of street racing deaths in San Diego they are oddly correlated with attendance to racelegal. Before racelegal there were a lot, then they went down significantly when racelegal was popular, now they are back up (I have all the specific numbers somewhere) No mater how gnarly the penalties there are still going to be people street racing. Heck, it is a $1,000 fine just to spectate! It still happens a lot. If they have a place to get it out safely then they are less likely to do it in the street.
So apparently drifting is the "thing" now. I would rather go fast and not use up much tire tread then look cool and kill tires but every wanna-be wants to be a drifter soooo
So why not host a "learn how drift like in the movies" event at Qualcomm stadium? I have friends that are drifters (real ones lol), and most of them have experience being an instructor. Make it a car show too, hand out trophies and stuff. Bring a D.J. Make it a "cool" event (I may need some help with that haha)
Rental fees for the parking lot are between $750-$1,500 a day. I can deal with that. Insurance is where I have an issue. I have done my own research and according to that (which I am not sure is correct) insurance for the day would be around $3,000. I know SCCA does insurance but their payouts are very low, not to mention they don't do drift events. Everyone around here is suing each other. I don't want to give away everything I own now plus 20% of my salary for the rest of my life because some stupid kid got hurt at an event. I am thinking the best way to do an event is through an existing organization, preferably a non-profit. I know the BMW and Porsche club do events at the stadium too, but I don't think they would be interested in helping out/hosting with a get-kids-off-the-street drifting charity project.
If this were wishful thinking it would have gone away over the last few years. I have done research but I am really at a standstill with the whole insurance issue. I would have liked to place it the same weekend as the release date of the new Fast and Furious (racing deaths are also oddly tied to those movies) but that would be way too soon.
This is one of those posts I don't know if I will get a reply too.
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