Buzz, I do get the drag race thing about
warming up tires" (Burnouts), but as you know burning them down the 1/4 mile IS not the fastest way to the end. As a Vintage racer / Autocrosser, the quickest way is NOT to spin your tires. This Drifting thing, just doesn't make sense to me, what is the end result? Not the quickest way around a course, Is it by a judge, or judge's (Crowd vote?) that determines a winner? That then is just some other guy's option, which in the end means nothing. I've watched these thing's on TV, 2-cars side-by-side, smoking their tires, and the car control it takes, but nothing different then two (or more) road racer's doing the same thing, and yes we're doing a four wheel drift, only we're trying to go as fast as we can to beat the other cars. To me it look's the same only in slow motion, with tire smoke. No offense, I guess I'm just too old to understand it
Cheers Tom