So who dominates the drifting world you ask? It's this guy:
Keiichi Tsuchiya when he was younger.
I think this is his coolest pic.
Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋 圭市 Tsuchiya Keiichi?, born January 30, 1956, Tomi, Nagano, Japan) is a professional racing driver. He is also known as the "Drift King" otherwise as Dorikin (ドリキン) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events, and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving.
The car he drives has become one of the most popular sports cars these days, the Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, the car also known as "Hachi-Roku" in Japan (hachi-roku meaning "eight six"); his car is also called "The Little Hachi that could". A video known as Pluspy documents Tsuchiya's touge driving with his AE86.
(source: wikipedia)
Why do I love drifting? I personally feel that drifting is more fun, exciting and challenging as compared to grip racing. If there's a chance, I would want to experience drifting. Either by sitting in a car of actually driving it. I play racing games all the time. I literally fall asleep while playing racing games what use grip driving. Most of the racing games I own for ps2 have drifting in them. One of my favorites is Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2.
Anyways, here are some pictures of cars drifting.
(http://ahtf.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/drifting731tm8.jpg)
(http://www.sromagazine.com/japan/drift/drift1.jpg)
(http://www.secretdrift.com.au/luke/blog/wearedrift/part_3_1.jpg)
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Keiichi even teaches the Japanese police how to drift
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/okinawa-cops-learn-to-drift-from-keiichi-tsuchiya/
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