Drifting - Licensing, training and safety standards?

Don't happen like that though does it? For a start they would have to do a course to get their licence so they would have had some track experience.

Don't happen like that though does it? For a start they would have to do a course to get their licence so they would have had some track experience.Depends really.... Up until 2005 to get a beginners (Class C) license in Ireland all you had to do was submit the forms with a medical certificate. There wasn't a requirement for the equivalent of an ARDS course.

Because I thought that was what the Formula Woman debate was all about (lets not start it again though Pleeeeaassee), did'nt one of the better girls get disqualified because although she had never raced she sat an ARDS test and got a race licence.

Depends really.... Up until 2005 to get a beginners (Class C) license in Ireland all you had to do was submit the forms with a medical certificate. There wasn't a requirement for the equivalent of an ARDS course.
And I believe it's still like that in certain other EU countries...

Drifting is a non speed event, therefore it only requires a basic licence or club licence as they are called here in Australia. Fill in the form, answer some medical questions and pay the money and its yours. Ready to go drifting.

To do hillclimb or sprint isn't any different... As I understand it, you can simply pay for an MSA license, comply with a few scrutineering rules, then race up a hill.

To my mind this is a 'good thing', a liberty to be cherished. Any sport needs to have a broad range of entrances. For a local drift event, the barriers to participating should be low, but the D1GB championship, for instance, has a well monitored licensing process:

http://www.driftworks.com/index.php?action=articles&articleId=15

I can only comment on the D1GB but Yes there is a structured licence testing and the standards of car preparation/scrutineering are generally as strict as in a comparable MSA event

Mistaken post deleted.

(100 x I must read the previous post. . . )

*Stealthly bumps thread* So, I'm English, want to go drifting in the U.K, I have an International C competition license and a knackerd 5 series BMW. What do i do now?

Do i need to pass some kind of license test?
Do i need to put a cage in the said Bmw?
Will i need my fireproofs and helmet?
Is there more than one governing body for the sport?
What is the class structure?
Will MagnetON send me to the search button at the top of the page because this subjuct has been covered already?

*Stealthly bumps thread* So, I'm English, want to go drifting in the U.K, I have an International C competition license and a knackerd 5 series BMW. What do i do now?

Do i need to pass some kind of license test?
Do i need to put a cage in the said Bmw?
Will i need my fireproofs and helmet?
Is there more than one governing body for the sport?
What is the class structure?
Will MagnetON send me to the search button at the top of the page because this subjuct has been covered already?

There are practice/practice/licence days available at various levels licences are needed for the higher championships
have a look on:
http://www.driftworks.com/forum/index.php
details of the days and other useful information available.

To start off you can use the car without a cage but as you progress it will be needed

yes in any form of motorsport they are needed

there is not an overall governing body as such its currently run by independant bodies......i can only talk about the ones i am familiar with -

BDC (http://www.britishdriftchampionship.com) have two classes - amateur and pro-am.
Start in am and as you and the car progress, move to pro-am then the best drivers in pro can progress to EDC which is the top of the tree in Drift here ( but i would say that wouldn't i;)) http://www.europeandriftchampionship.eu is the site for EDC