The problem you're having is related to VDrift not being able to find its data. It looks like you're trying to run VDrift from your desktop somehow? VDrift's data on your computer is in /home/andrea/.local/share/vdrift/data. VDrift finds its data by first looking in the current directory where you ran the game from, and if it doesn't find it, it looks in the directory where the binary is located. Then if it still can't find it, it's supposed to look in the subdirectory below that.
It looks like this last bit is not working correctly, I'll see if I can fix it. In the mean time you can get VDrift to find its data properly simply by adding a line to your /home/andrea/.vdrift/VDrift.config. under the section "[ main ]" add a line that says
Code:
data_dir = /home/andrea/.local/share/games/vdrift/data
and it should work fine.