I have a great deal of respect for you martin, but comments like that i find pretty hard to swallow.
I hear the "real racing circle" guys pissing and moaning about drifters day in day out, truth is, considering there are often 30 cars on the track at the same time, a relatively small amount of those "tacked together cars" are breaking down. The issue is you put that many cars on a track at the same time, and then sit them on the line, there might be a small amount of fluid dropped in a concentrated place. The fault doesn't lie on the drifters, or their car, if you wanna have a whinge to anyone, talk to mallala, it's their format which if anything, would be the issue. Scruitineering is always an issue, i agree, but you have to remember, we have 60+ cars at each event, and in case you haven't realised, we've already lost 3hrs and 4 sessions of drift each day due to being put on after the grip guys, you want us to lose more time, or pay more for scruitineers? We already pay the same amount as a grip practice, for less sessions, let a lone track time in total.
2ndly, comments like "real racing circles" do nothing to help the image of the circuit guys as arrogant elitists, I've always been a big fan of raw driver skill and passion overcoming the barrier created by money within motorsport, but i guess there will always be those that look down on the peasants and their inexpensive. Forgive me if that wasn't what you meant, but if you look at it, you've gotta admit it can be taken the wrong way quite easily.
I think a few are still bitter that the last few grip days that the drifters have rocked up to on street tyres and drift setups, they have flogged the majority of the field