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And learning to do it in a safe setting like a performance driving course at your local track just adds to the expense, but its far less expensive than the repercussions of doing it on the street.
Learning drifting on the streets (D)= possible fun (P) - cost of wear and tear (W)- any damage to vehicle from hitting curbs, light poles, firehydrants, etc (H) - fines (F) - jail time (J) - legal fees (L) - seized car that gets crushed (depending on how douchey the local legal system gets) (S) - medical fees from injuries sustained in crashes (M)
so the cleaner equation can be written as: D=P-W-H-F-J-L-S-W
Compare that to learning in a safe and controlled setting with a purpose built training car, a wide open area, and some cones:
Drift School (performance driving/race school) (D) = Fun (F) - Cost of the lesson/course (C)
Which would be: D=F-C
I'm a big advocate of keeping the racing to sanctioned areas. A few years back I came back to work at a Jiffy Lube (Laugh if you want to, but knowing what goes on inside those places is the sole reason why I don't let anyone else work on my cars.) from a family vacation to find that the wooden utility pole infront of the building had been totally trashed. The bottom half was gone, leaving the top half hanging from the wires and there were chunks of sod missing where something had dug into it. After a lot of digging through the newspaper archives, I discovered that the damage was from street racing. An Accord with two or three teens in it was racing some other car, lost control, and took out the pole. No one survived and the other driver was charged with a mess of stuff including "reckless endangerment" and "homicide by vehicle."
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