[Dean]

Again, I am playing devil's advocate, and all you keep doing is throwing out your opinion that drifting is somehow inherently unsafe.

If they are within the course boundaries, how is it unsafe? You do not have the authority until a rule or policy from nationals says so to critique and comment on a driver's method of completing the course if they do so within the boundaries of said course!

You have failed to site a single rule that permits you to do so, and that is my point. The SSS roles and responsibilities are very small, and telling a driver how to drive is not one of them!

You keep throwing in value judgments with no facts in evidence. We get "idiot driver[s]" at every event who can't keep it between the cones including you and I. I don't see you advocating 600 foot distances because of that? Why so for "drifting"?

Drifting, like skateboarding is not a crime!

Are you prepared to throw out every prepared and mod car as they power oversteer the exit of most corners leading onto straights of any length? Or set 600 foot worker clearances for them?

The SSS does not have the authority to ask anyone to leave an event unless they have failed to sign the waiver! Get off your high horse. That is why the SSS role is so strictly defined, so they don't go off claiming to have authority over everything and everyone at an event.

Otherwise as a SSS, I could claim MikeK's method of driving the course faster than mine is unsafe and threaten to shut down the event if he didn't drive to my liking.

Common sense says that if a driver can complete a course within it's boundaries then it is as safe as pretty much any other driver who does. Value judgments on how they complete the course not withstanding.

Until National publishes something regarding this, I really don't think you have a leg to stand on according to the rules. That is my point.