The modern drift started at the All Japan Touring Car Championship Races 30 years ago. The Japanese rider, Kunimitsu Takahashi, was the creator of the technique in 1970. He became famous when entering the apex of the curve ( "Apex" or point of tangency is the point where the car is closer to the inner line of the curve) at high speed And skidding, getting soon after, to leave the curve with more speed than normal. This technique earned him several championships and a legion of fans who started the Japanese drift. A street runner named Keiichi Tsuchiya was particularly interested in Takahashi's drift. Tsuchiya began practicing his drift techniques in the mountains of Japan, and quickly gained a great reputation became a hit and inspired thousands of professional drift racers running on the circuits currently. In 1988, the chief editor of Option magazine Daijiro Inada helped organize the first specialized dr...
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