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Originally Posted by pwd72s

Drifting...way back in the stone age of road racing when tire technology wasn't near today's standards, drifting could be the fastest way through some corners. Fangio was a master of the drift.
Today's tires? The slow way....but it looks cool. I guess that's why it's done? Yep, glad it's not me buying the tires.

I suspect the amount of drift that the racers back in the day did was very different from todays drifting. I think modern drifting came from the Japanese Manga/show, Initial D that was about mountain racers in Japan.