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For those of you that want to get into drifting, step number 1 is to first find yourself a vehicle to drift in. Now from the dozens of emails that I receive on the subject, I’m guessing that although there’s a lot of people that want to start drifting, a lot of those people lack sufficient funding to start.

Now, when first starting off, you don’t need much. You just need a car and enough money to get out to the track for drifting practice events. Aside from the money to purchase your car, you’ll need a small amount of money to repair things that will break (and trust me, things will break) and you’ll need money for tires and event entry fees. Once you get the money for those 4 things you’re well on your way to learning how to drift.

Like I’ve mentioned before, this is America and you can pretty much purchase whatever car (within reason) that you want and finance the payment. Now some people would recommend just saving your money and then paying for a car in full. Now that’s great advice, but not too practical for the world we live in. If you want to start drifting now, getting a car loan is the easiest way to get a decent performing vehicle with a monthly payment that you can live with.

Now if you’re a kid with no credit, or even worse, bad credit, there are ways for you to finance your drifting dreams. Apply online for an Auto Loan at TheAutoFinder.com. You can be approved for a loan online in as little as one minute and then you can start browsing through their national listings of new and used vehicles.

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For those of you that have been coming to Drift Session events over the past several years, you know that we invite guest drivers from time to time. These drivers usually come from Japan and help to share their knowledge about the sport of drifting with our drivers. In the past we’ve had the team from Signal Auto, Katsuhiro Ueo, Tetsuya Hibino, Ken Maeda, and a few others visit us at the Drift Session.

Now why would we go through the expense of bringing in these drivers, putting them up in hotels on Waikiki Beach, taking them out for every meal, and showing them an overall good time (all on our dime)? The reason is simply that we want our drivers to get better. If you want improvement, you need to ante up and get the best people you can to assist your people.

When dealing with any group of people (but particularly drivers) you find that after they get pretty good at what they’re doing, they start to believe that they’re the best at what they’re doing. Bringing in a guest driver is exactly what your drivers need when they start thinking that there’s no more room for improvement. Everyone needs a reality check from time to time to understand how little they really know.

If you want to succeed in anything, the easiest way to do it is to find someone else who has succeeded and then just copy them. Why reinvent the wheel? The guys in Japan have been drifting longer than anyone else. If you want to be like them, study them. Find out what they’re doing and figure out how it applies to you.

Get on your event organizer’s case and find out why there aren’t any scheduled guest drivers at your drifting events. You might be getting tons of track time now, but if you’re doing the wrong things, it’s all for nothing. Get the help you need and then put in the practice; not the other way around.