Drifting refers to a driving technique and to a motor sport involving the use of the technique. A car is said to be drifting when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle, and the front wheels are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn (e.g. car is turning left, wheels are pointed right), and the driver is controlling these factors.

Although drifting started out in 1970s, most of the peoples' first exposure to the sport of drifting was by the influence of Initial-D, a manga series of Shuichi Shigeno. The success in manga series cause the rise of animes, games and movies that related to drift. And the heat of drifting has spread around the world. You don't believe it? Let's see.


DRIFT - The Movie by Japanese.

Founder come first.




Initial-D - The Movie by Hong Kies.

And the Chinese come in second. However, most of the actors (besides of those main characters) and staffs are Japanese and all the drifting scenes were taking place at Mt. Akina, Japan. It's a fifty percents' Japanese product. I suppose.




FTF - Tokyo Drift by American.

Caucasian was then copy the success. This is more or less the same as above. Or even worse. An uncreative boring success story of an American, in Japan. So, I suppose it's an eighty percents of Japanese product.




Impak Maksima by Malaysian.

Last but not least, the Malays! It's a movie with the stamp of "Made in Malaysia" where you can saw the road of Kuala Lumpur, the building of Petronas Twin Towers, and even the drift car of Proton. So, it's an ninety-nine percents of Malaysian product. The angel of my heart was telling me to feel proud about it. But then, I just can't stop laughing when I saw Proton's car drift, don't ya?