Young people with powerful cars have enjoyed doing burnouts since the dawn of time. Most here have grown up basing a car's performance on straight line drag racing. Think of drifting as doing burnouts around corners or on a circuit; balancing a car on the ragged edge of control. No one ever said it's the quickest way around a track or the best way to preserve your tires. it's all about high horsepower, tire-smoking fun. As a kid I used to wear out the back tires on my bicycles doing rear brake drifts. Later on we did handbrake drifts (most of the cars were front wheel drive) on sandy beach ramps in our parents' cars. When we began to get our grubby lil' hands on more powerful rear drive cars, we were drifting away long before drifting even existed. Spinning tires, driving sideways - tons of fun. Most ol' pharts hate it because they associate it with the evil "ricer" culture, but it reminds me of my youth, and I definitely get it.