The only thing missing from drift are the jumps found in rally. Of course drift & jump would be best done with a truck. I'm sure someone out there is doing this? Anyway I love drift driving. It's an interesting challenge all of it's own.

Not really, I am Sure Rallying is Where most of us saw our first sliding but Drift has been used in Car Chases in movies for Years... We just never realised it..

Drift has been used in Onroad and rally racing as a way to shave off lap times but Its Show Drift that has inspired most of us.. Smoke Shows with cars doing wicked Continual power slides down main straits...parralel to the motion they are travelling in..

I agree with auso.It's been there long enough, but we didn't saw it.


AT AUSO: how do u do the text beneath ur answer?

Its in Your Profile Settings Called Your Signature

What ispired drifting compitiions is those whacy rice burneres in japan. they were running canyon and mountain races. quickest way down was to slide a little. then one day some said in a southern japanese accent "hey yall, watch this" and insted of sliding a little bit slid a whole lot. then some other guy sais if he can do it I bet I can do it better. next thing you know you got a bunch of japanese kids shouting rebel yells into the night tring to almost kill themselves.

If you take out the faniful filler, thats how it started.

It was actually founded by Kunimitsu Takahashi. He was the foremost creator of drifting techniques in the 1970's. He was famous for hitting the apex (the point where the car is closest to the inside of a turn) at high speed and then drifting through the corner, preserving a high exit speed. This earned him several championships and a legion of fans who enjoyed the spectacle of burning tires.

At first, when people saw him on the track, they laughed at him because of wasting rubber. But when they saw his times, no one could beat it and later found out his technique is faster.

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

Interesting it just seems like it would be so logical to take drift from rally racing.

Wikipedia source:
A street racer named Keiichi Tsuchiya became particularly interested by Takahashi's drift techniques. Tsuchiya began practicing his drifting skills on the mountain roads of Japan, and quickly gained a reputation amongst the racing crowd. In 1977, several popular car magazines and tuning garages agreed to produce a video of Tsuchiya's drifting skills. The video, known as Pluspy, became a hit and inspired many of the professional drifting drivers on the circuits today. In 1988, alongside Option magazine founder and chief editor Daijiro Inada, he would help to organize one of the first events specifically for drifting.

Anyone watched the Pluspy video?

rally started the entire thing until the Japanese saw it and made it their own motorsport which began to spread all of the world...it has now hit china

im just curious,
but how old are most of you?
because im seeing different stories from everyone about where drifting started, and its actually quite funny
ive been into the drift scene for roughly 7 years now, and from all the people i have talked to and the people I have gotten the chance to interview, my best guess is it is actually more something like this
in the late 70's rally racing was a large hit in Japan, due to the fact that the fastest line was often achieved by sliding the car around, drivers would use their ebrake to iniate a slide in the dirt and use it to control the slide. As more and more youth began to take interest in the sport many of them began to go to the mountain passes to practice rally techniques, at the same time, Keichii Tsuchiya, affectionately known as Dori Dori or Dorikin, began his own interest in racing, learning how to drive, he began to go to the mountain passes as well to practice. Watching these drivers blast through the passes he was inspired and the further he pushed himself, and for this matter the other mountain pass drivers, they noticed that sometimes as they went fast, the tail of the car would slide out. As Tsuchiya, began to drive more and more, he began to refine the skill, using it during races to entertain the crowd sometimes even using it to jump in on an opponent. During the same time, tsuchiya started what was known as the ikaten series, or local competition, where he would gather drivers from the different prefectures to compete and show off their skills.
now im not saying what i wrote is 100% correct, but from the people Ive talked to and interviewed in the past, it seems like this is more likely how it all began
-randy

you are right!!!It all started that way!!!

randy very well answered I am 33 and have been following drifting for quite sometime now, big BMI fan

Not mentioning any names but u will notice a know it all trend with a few users in this drift forum it seems no matter what people say they cant be wrong

its all good to me
I just felt like chiming in, I have been so lucky to have had interviews with Tsuchiya san, Dai-Chan, and a few others from the industry regarding drifting and its origins
its so crazy how it all started
-randy