Thursday July 8th Open Drifting session. Columbus, WI.

[columbus151speedway]

Columbus 151 Speedway has announced the formation of a new club for tuners.
The very first meeting is scheduled for Thursday July 8th. Gates open at 5pm.
We will meet on subsequent Thursdays, culminating in a weekend drifting competition.
The finalists will advance to the intermission of a Friday night show. They will drift for racing fans that will decide a winner.
Attendees on Thursday July 8th will have a rare opportunity to become founding members of an organization dedicated to providing a safe environment to engage in an activity that is both dangerous and illegal on the street.
Any drift capable street legal licensed compact car is eligible.
Under 18 will require parental consent.
The grandstands and the meeting are free.
The open drift sesssion is $15.00 for unlimited track time in 3 min increments until dusk.
Do not miss your chance to get in on the ground floor of what may be the hottest new thing around !!
Columbus 151 Speedway is located between Sun Prairie and Columbus. Hwy 151 Exit 111. Follow the signs.
Bring your helmet.
(608) 513-9111

[DontStopMe]

umm, re-post.

http://www.cwscc.com/vb_forum/showthread.php?t=4322

I understand you want to push your event but we don't need more than one thread about the same event.

Unless its the dells bar show, lol.

[columbus151speedway]

Nothing quite like a nice friendly warm forum to make people want to keep coming back.

The old post was a couple of weeks old. It is not like I pounded you with it.

Just letting people know it is still on. Being a fledgling event some may wonder.

Thank you however for your imput. It was very helpful and greatly appreciated.

:this_is_stupid_yo:

[TomKat]

I was wondering if you were going to post up again just before the event. No need to start a new thread though.

Good luck with the event.

[DontStopMe]

Nothing quite like a nice friendly warm forum to make people want to keep coming back.

The old post was a couple of weeks old. It is not like I pounded you with it.

Just letting people know it is still on. Being a fledgling event some may wonder.

Thank you however for your imput. It was very helpful and greatly appreciated.

:this_is_stupid_yo:

It's a common thing on a forum. People usually don't like it if you only come on for personal gain.

You are obviously free to post up about events, but it doesn't need to be excessive and it helps if you are regular contributor.

Just a little forum edict I guess. I would rather see you bring back your old thread and say the event is only 3 days away rather than post up the same info again. While your at it, introduce yourself in a new thread, post some pictures, or just join one of our rants about what we think sucks this week.

All are welcome here. Hope your event goes well.

[columbus151speedway]

It's a common thing on a forum. People usually don't like it if you only come on for personal gain.

You are obviously free to post up about events, but it doesn't need to be excessive and it helps if you are regular contributor.

Just a little forum edict I guess. I would rather see you bring back your old thread and say the event is only 3 days away rather than post up the same info again. While your at it, introduce yourself in a new thread, post some pictures, or just join one of our rants about what we think sucks this week.

All are welcome here. Hope your event goes well.



Personal gain?? At $15.00 per head, where is there personal gain?
$15.00 did not cover the cost of the insurance policy. I lost money.
I will next week too. This may never make a dime, none the less make any real money.

The purpose of this was to give kids a place to drift that was safe without hassle from the cops. It is just a car club. You all seem to think somebody is becoming a millionaire here.

You are users of a FORUM. The idea is people post stuff. You should have an attitude of "the more the merrier". Instead you all elect yourself as forum cop, decide you do not like a particular post and then attempt to enforce your desires on people trying to just send a message.

"Join a rant about what sucks this week" A serious indicator of the problem with your forum. Rant about what is good, what is cool, what is fun, positive things. Post cool info for people who want to do cool things, or want to know about the cool things happening near you.

Lighten up. Get a life. The definition PUBLIC forum lies in the freedom of posts.

Do not for a moment think that I am willing to relinquish my first amendment right to speak freely. I will start new threads whenever I feel the need. I will double post whenever I want to.

Your only recourse is to have my postings deleted, and have my membership revoked. Given the attitude of posters here, I won't mind.

As for trying to change me, save it, many have tried without success.

Like I said before a warm friendly welcome...

Everybody that did attend had a great time. Every single one of them promised to return next week, Thursday July 15, 2010 we will be doing it all again. Gates open at 5pm.

Bryon "Popeye" Dopkins
Columbus 151 Speedway.
(608) 513-9111

[Dizmm]

Don’t take DontStopMe's post the wrong way. Think of a group of people all standing around chatting. You come in and just start talking about some event that’s taking place. You’d probably get some strange looks. however if you come in, introduce yourself, then tell us about your event, we'd all feel more comfortable. that’s all.

No biggie, no need to turn this thread into another useless thread. I hope what you’re doing works out. If i was into drifting i'd surely come and check this out.

[Dizmm]

"Join a rant about what sucks this week" A serious indicator of the problem with your forum. Rant about what is good, what is cool, what is fun, positive things. Post cool info for people who want to do cool things, or want to know about the cool things happening near you.

this is true!

[Draven8795]

Classic thread.

[TomKat]

How many people showed up yesterday. Spectators? Participants?

Did any pros show up and show everyone how it's done?

[EVILUTION]

Better yet how much money did you pocket while destroying our environment by burning oil and tires?

[TomKat]

Better yet how much money did you pocket while destroying our environment by burning oil and tires?

LOL. Don't take this seriously. Evil is trying to stir the pot.

[EVILUTION]

I didn't want the thread to go off topic!

[columbus151speedway]

Car count:
7 cars, 9 drivers.
1 broke down on the way.
4 in the stands that said...

"If I knew it was going to be like this, I would have brought my car."
"Next week I am in."

The cars from MN did not show as promised.

Everybody that drifted said they were coming back. One that drifted in another drifter's car will have his own car ready by thursday.

Start with 8, add the breakdown, and the 4 new ones, hope for another one or two, and I expect a total in the mid teens for car count next week.

Add the motorcycle stunt show practice and this should be worth the price of admission...FREE!

[columbus151speedway]

Better yet how much money did you pocket while destroying our environment by burning oil and tires?

The insurance policy costs $185.00 per day.
The take at the pit gate $115.00.

It only cost me $70.00 to watch them do what you describe.

Oh yeah, my pit gate worker...unpaid.
Me??? Unpaid.
The track? Not one thin nickel.

These are kids. They have no money. Who are you trying to fool?

The comical thing is the people that think you are becoming a millionaire off of an event that may never be profitable.
If it comes to ever break even, I will be shocked.

The investment of time and effort, flyer printing cost, hours posting to thirty websites, that was all for nothing. The track will be providing vinyl and t-shirts to club members, we will be investing in drifting mannequins, cones, and pylons. Video equipment for this experience is forthcoming ($3,000.00).

You tell me, how many cars do we have to drift before we break even?
I would guess the number to be in the neighborhood of 8600.
We will lose another $50 to $60 next thursday. Nobody will get paid that day either.

As for carbon footprint, allow us to examine that for a moment.
These kids will drift somewhere, if not here, somewhere else.
So it is not like we are creating the pollution, it would be created anyway.

So you would prefer kids entertain themselves in other ways?

How about a hamburger at McDonalds? Nope, the beef is from Argentina and has traveled 13,000 miles creating more carbon than these 4cylinders doing a few dozen quarter mile laps could produce in the engine's lifetime.

While these kids drifted, they produced no plastic bottles, burned no coal to make electricity, dispoiled no rivers by not using any paper products,

As for the oil, BP 'nuff said.

Tires are a completely different matter. Water in tire piles in third world countries have been proven to be a mosquito haven. The spawning ground for diptheria, typhoid, malaria, the plague and a host of others.

Had these third world countries had drifters, all of these tires would have had scortch holes. Allowing the water to drain out. Like our tires here in the Ol' USA. Keep up the good work boys!! Keep deadly mosquito bourne virus at bay! Scortch 'em flat!

The inception of the idea, the effort of production, the maintenance of the facility, the cost of ownership is all worth nothing?

Do you begrudge the track a little profit if it ever does happen?

It seems to me that given they are the only legal venue in this county that is willing to let you do this, I would WANT the track to make lots of money doing it...SO THEY KEEP DOING IT.

I would want them to make so much money doing it this that they would want to do it every day, so I could do it whenever I want.

Bottom line, don't be bitter, because the track did not make any money.
I can be bitter because I didn't either.

[Dizmm]

i hope you find a way to make a little bit to make it worth it. if it continually shows a loss then we know this type of stuff wont go on forever.

[TomKat]

$185.00 for drift insurance. OMG that's unbelievably cheap.

Where do you get your insurance from?

[EVILUTION]

He probably gets it straight through British Petroleum.

Guy... I'm fucking with ya.... this thread really went sideways (!).

[columbus151speedway]

$185.00 for drift insurance. OMG that's unbelievably cheap.

Where do you get your insurance from?

That is the rider on a policy that costs thousands each week.
It is on a per event plus a per head basis.
More heads will be required before the net is zero.

When a drifting group wants too insure a parking lot they write a pricey policy from scratch.

When they charge you $100.00 to drift, and tell you they are not making money, they are lying.

In the eyes of our insurance company, individual drift sessions are no less nor no more dangerous than our practice sessions.

Our regular friday night pit pass is $25.00. For that price, you can race your cars with 15 others, risk life and limb, on the brink of disaster. You can bash, bump, grind and crunch. You can roll your car in a roll over contest. You can demo derby. You can race in reverse at 60 mph on any given friday night.

Why should a solo car in a somewhat controlled skid be more expensive to insure than all of that?

[TomKat]

Sounds good.

10 entrants. I wonder if you mixed it up a bit you could draw more people.

Drifting is especially hard on cars and tires. Plus you need a special car to do it with and lots of power doesn't hurt.

If you did a "test and tune" autocross session between the drift sessions I'd bet you'd get a lot more people to show up. Plus maybe make the beginners start out on the autocross part. Then when they start to master car control let them have at in the drifting part.

Just an idea. I like the fact that you are organizing all of this. And for very little cost to the competitors.

[columbus151speedway]

Sounds good.

10 entrants. I wonder if you mixed it up a bit you could draw more people.

Drifting is especially hard on cars and tires. Plus you need a special car to do it with and lots of power doesn't hurt.

If you did a "test and tune" autocross session between the drift sessions I'd bet you'd get a lot more people to show up. Plus maybe make the beginners start out on the autocross part. Then when they start to master car control let them have at in the drifting part.

Just an idea. I like the fact that you are organizing all of this. And for very little cost to the competitors.

"Ask, and Ye shall receive."
There you go TomKat. You have your own show.
I will see you, and all of your friends then.


How many can I expect?

[DontStopMe]

Lighten up. Get a life. The definition PUBLIC forum lies in the freedom of posts.


I'm not the one who blew a gasket over a simply post. And your "freedom to post" obviously works both ways.


Your only recourse is to have my postings deleted, and have my membership revoked. Given the attitude of posters here, I won't mind.

Jump to conclusions much?


I will double post whenever I want to.



I will double post whenever I want to.



How many can I expect?
I would come, but you know, then this thread happened.

[columbus151speedway]

I'm not the one who blew a gasket over a simply post. And your "freedom to post" obviously works both ways.


Jump to conclusions much?






I would come, but you know, then this thread happened.

It is all good brother.
We will put you down as a no show.
Thanks anyway.

[SgtRauksauff]

so, this never got answered in the other thread... your rules mentioned "road legal sport compact". Can I bring, say, a Caprice or a Diplomat? What about a '77 LTD with a 460? Or a fully non-road-legal Chevy Monza with an LS2? Or, just a regular V8 camaro?

Was any video taken from last week? I'd like to see how the course was/will be set up.

--sarge

[TomKat]

so, this never got answered in the other thread... your rules mentioned "road legal sport compact". Can I bring, say, a Caprice or a Diplomat? What about a '77 LTD with a 460? Or a fully non-road-legal Chevy Monza with an LS2? Or, just a regular V8 camaro?

Was any video taken from last week? I'd like to see how the course was/will be set up.

--sarge

I'm sure they won't turn away a car that passes tech no matter where it was made.

The course. It's a track and that was the course. There are some pictures posted on club FR, but when I tried to post them here it didn't work. Here are the links:

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[TomKat]

I came up with another idea.

How about racing. Not spectator racing where the two car line up next to each other and race for 1 lap, but this: two cars line up on opposite sides of the track. Then race 1 lap and the first car to cross the line where it started wins.

[devlish]

There are some pictures posted on club FR, but when I tried to post them here it didn't work. i see one car drifting/out of control, one sideways by accident it appears, one going off track, and 2 going straight. thankfully they can claim this was the "first" drift session. j/k

[columbus151speedway]

so, this never got answered in the other thread... your rules mentioned "road legal sport compact". Can I bring, say, a Caprice or a Diplomat? What about a '77 LTD with a 460? Or a fully non-road-legal Chevy Monza with an LS2? Or, just a regular V8 camaro?

Was any video taken from last week? I'd like to see how the course was/will be set up.

--sarge

The only vehicle excluded to date...
Peterbilt.
Licensed, street legal is required. This is a street car club.
We want you to drive it here.

Racing vehicles are welcomed on wednesdays.

***********************************
To the photog with the track shots.
These are great, but for $15. you could be a lot closer to the action.
Buy a pit pass and you can utilize four great spots to shoot from.
Between the tires in 1&2, or 3&4, or on top of the tires in the front stretch. On the wall in the fence opening on the backstretch.

Not only would you enjoy the best seats in the house, but you would get great shots too.

(608) 513-9111