RC drifting is to show off your car handling skills, your blinged RC and to have down right fun..

There are RC drift battles , so to a degree , it is used for quick lap times but your judged on Car control and parralelness to the curves aka Need For Speed underground style..

Rc drifting is a show sport rather then a speed technique , although I am sure you can apply the knowledge learnt from your drift cornering into your races to improve times..