As you may have seen I've fixed the new merged vdrift package in rawhide to actually include the data. This only fixes half of the problems with vdrift in rawhide though.

The other issue is that it crashes when run on opensource (Mesa) opengl drivers:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1  0x00000000004a7379 in SHADER::Load (this=0xb31db8, name=@0x7fffffffd8f0)
    at src/shader.cpp:25
#2  0x00000000004a86cb in SHADER_MANAGER::Load (this=<value optimized out>, 
    name=@0x7fffffffd8f0) at src/shader.cpp:293
#3  0x000000000041208a in GRAPHICS::Init (this=0x7b9788) at src/graphics.cpp:68
#4  0x000000000041b6e0 in GAME::Start (this=0x7b6f40, args=@0x7fffffffe080)
    at src/game.cpp:1502
#5  0x000000000040b965 in main (argc=1, argv=<value optimized out>)
    at src/main.cpp:26

If you look in src/shader.cpp line 25 you see:
        program = glCreateProgramObjectARB();

The problem is that glCreateProgramObjectARB is a function pointer which is part of GLEW, and which only gets set if the OpenGL implementation supports glCreateProgramObjectARB(). vdrift is not checking for this and thus crashing on cards / OpenGL implementations which lack this. Note that the F-9 version does not suffer from this.

I've also tested the new (with data included) F-10 version with nvidea drivers and there it works fine.