I don't think u can really attribute the invention of drifting to anyone person or for that matter anyone motorsport drifting is a way of dealing with driving situations that exceed the boundaries of the cars gripping potential without losing momentum or dropping the vechiles revs in certain situations it makes much more sense to oversteer and get on the power than too slow to a crawl and then have to climb back through the power band. While it has become popular worldwide it was however the japanese who recognized it as its own sport and developed D1 as we know it. Keichi Tsuchiya is recognized by many as the only true drift king being one of the sports founding fathers and encouraging it for use as both a show sport as well as a common racing technique.

Although RC drifting resembles 1/1 scale drifting I prefer to compare it to rally drifting in that we are relying on the loss of grip to 4 wheels and using the momentum of the tires to pull us out and correct ourselves vs the RWD platform used almost exclusively in full size drifting (not saying AWD is not used) where the grip of the front tires is an integral part of correcting the drift