RIP Mt Cotton Skidpan fun

[MonoJoker]

I was considering organising another day at Mt Cotton later in the year but thanks to the DoT I won't be bothering:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20071123-3102,00.html

It's the first rule of ignorant government - if you don't understand it, ban it.

Cheers
LT.

[Dickie Knee]

Bugger, I just got the LSD fitted.

:bawl:

DK

[Tez82]

LoL oh well looks like we'll have to get the firehose out and have some fun in the carparks now :D hehehe like seriously how farked is that though.... Next thing they will do is stop drag racing at Willowbank, don't they prefer us to do it in a controlled enviroment :p

Tez

[scotty]

DRIFTING cars sideways through a high-speed skid _ made popular in the movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift _ has been banned at a State Government- owned driver training centre in Brisbane.

Yeh, like no-one had been drifting up till the point that the movie came out...


Mr Neilsen said the ban on drifting would not stop motoring enthusiasts from practising the skill, but could force them out on to the streets.

I agree... while track days and drag strips don't take all the illegal driving off the streets, they sure help.

[Vulture]

Absolutely crazy!
The same argument could be forwarded for many activities. What about a shooting range? Doesn't that encourage people to shoot things? Shooting things in public is bad, therefore we should ban the shooting range as it might encourage people to shoot in the streets. Isn't this the same argument? Sounds like it is just an excuse to keep the dickhead residents who moved near the centre happy.

[BlueVZSS]

This decision just demonstrates how little governments undertand about driver education. The skidpan is there to teach drivers how to control a car in a slide. The facility provides a safe place to do this. This reduces the risk of road fatalities, particularly amongst inexperienced drivers. People have been dying in car accidents because of their inability to control a car in these circumstances long before "The fast and the Furious" and "Tokyo Drift" came along. Sadly, with the metality of this government, this will continue to happen.

[greySStoke]

Wonder how this will go down with police driver training. I know I had a ball, and also learnt a helluva lot about car control "drifting" on the skidpan.
Very shortsighted IMO.

[C4B]

Using the same logic:

Ban cooking classes -> Prevent knife attacks

Ban condom sales -> Prevent sexual assaults

Ban Alcohol -> Prevent drink driving deaths

Ban Doors -> Prevent "Knock Knock" Jokes

Ban Big Brother -> Prevent "Turkey Slaps"

Ban Ricers -> Prevent the depletion of our forests owing to cops writing out pages of defect notices..... :)

[57FAT]

Without reading the actual document from the State Government it is really hard to make a judgement. There is always grey ares in these things such as the facility at Mt Cotton is a skid pan, not a drift pan (if they exist) so it is OK to use for it's intended purpose etc.
It typifies the governed land that we live in and makes no sense and I tend to agree that the local resident may have hand in it as I have always been warned of their presence when at the facility.
It could be the right time for some enterprising people to get together and establish a privately owned and run complex.

[Dickie Knee]

Mono

Can you ask the question anyway. They can only so no.

DK

[vh-holden]

can you still do other types of sliding there? I thought drifting was going sideways through a corner, not sliding around on a slab of concrete.

just call it something different

[Vulture]

Just saw something about it on the news, they are going to launch a legal challenge.