Drifting

By: Justin Schumerth

 Common Terms
• Oversteer: is when the lateral angle of the rear tires is greater
then that of the front tires
• Under-steer: is when the Tires (usually the front tires) on the
car lose grip and the car tends to be unresponsive to steering
• FR,FF,MR etc.: refers to Engine and Drivetrain
• FR: is Front Engine & Rear Wheel Drive
• FF: is Front Engine / Front Wheel Drive
• MR/Mid-Ship: is Mid Engine / Rear Wheel Drive
• 4WD: allows all four tires of a car to be used all four tires share
the same speed and power also due to a differential at the
center rather than both axels.
• AWD: AWD is like true 4WD were all four tires are operating at
the same time but are able to move at different speeds from
the rest due to a differential at the center rather than both
axels.
Oversteer
Understeer
 What is it?
• Drifting started in Japan, over 30 years ago
• Drifting is were a driver purposely put the car into a
Oversteer.
• Drifting is controlled by Throttle and Counter-Steer
(If your technique is good you can control a drift by
near throttle only (using the cars balance to drift))
• Drifting started on the Touge of Japan (Mountain
Passes) by just some people trying to find the fastest
way down the mountain
• Drifting is now an extremely popular motorsport and
is also used in Rally Racing combined with power
slides.
The Touge
FR / RWD
240SX (Nissan 240SX)

Popular FR Drift Cars

S15 (Nissan Silvia S15)
~FR/ RWD~
FF / FWD
EK9 (Honda Civic Type R)

Popular FF Drift Cars

DC2 (Acura Integra Type-R)
~FF Drift~
AWD / 4WD
CT9A (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo)

Popular 4WD Drift Cars

GDB (Subaru Impreza WRX STi)
~AWD DRIFT~
MR / RWD
SW20 (Toyota MR2)

Popular MR Drift Cars

NA2 (Acura/ Honda NSX)
~AE86~
• D1 Grand Prix is the Largest Drifting Motorsports
expo in the world
• ~D1GP~
• Street Legal Class (w/ Nomuken)
 Outside Clipping point

Inside Clipping point

 Keiichi Toshi Hayama Manabu Orido Ken Gushi
Tsuchiya

Chris Forsberg Sam Hubinette

Popular Drifters Ken Nomura

 H.I.N
• Hot Import Nights
• One of USA’s Premier and Largest Sport Compact
Auto Shows
• Cars, Music, Food, Drifting, Girls, Vendors,
Competitions, Partying.
• It’s All About Having Fun!
• ~Video~
• 240SX
• AE86 vs. EK9
• Touge Drifting
• Chasing the Touge DVD
• Street Drifting In Japan
• Nomuken & Ueo
• Nomuken
• Semi Drifting
• Smart Car
 Web Links

• D1 GP
• Hot Import Nights
• Toshi Hayama Interview
• Formula D – Judging
• Drift Cars
• Drifting techniques
• Drifting Explained
• Toshi Hayama MySpace
• Super Street
• JDM Option
• Modified Mag
• Top Secret Performance