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This sense of drift is not to be confused with the four wheel drift, a classic cornering technique established in Grand Prix and sports car racing. [citation needed] As a motoring discipline, drifting competitions were first popularized in Japan in the 1970s and further popularized by the 1995 manga series Initial D. Drifting competitions are ...
The D1 Grand Prix (D1グランプリ, D1 guranpuri), abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift, is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Daijiro Inada, founder of Option magazine and Tokyo Auto Salon, and drifting legend, Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting contest in 1999 and 2000 to feed on the ever ...
The new entity would solely own, operate and launch the first official drifting series in North America. Formula DRIFT is not associated with the FIA series of formula racing championships. [1] Formula DRIFT has 84 licensed drivers competing in PRO and PROSPEC (formerly PRO 2 [2]) as of June 2024. The series consists of an eight-round ...
The 2023 Formula Drift season (officially titled and stylized as the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship) was the twentieth season of the Formula D series. The season began on April 8 at Long Beach and concluded on October 14 at Irwindale Speedway after eight events.
Announced prior to the Las Vegas Formula D round on July 14, at $50,000, [2] it boasts of the largest prize money in a drifting contest [1] and the largest TV production for a drift contest. [ 2 ] The inaugural event was won by Rhys Millen , incidentally sponsored by Red Bull, taking home $25,000.
Ebisu Circuit was designed and built by the drift driver Nobushige Kumakubo and is one of the premier drifting-based race tracks in the world. [ citation needed ] Nobushige also holds other non-drifting motorsport events at Ebisu including motorcycle races, karting , endurance races , FJ1600 open-wheel car races and, in previous years, events ...
D1NZ is a production car drifting series in New Zealand, a sanctioned championship under Motorsport New Zealand, the official FIA appointed governing body of motor-racing in New Zealand. [1] It began early in 2003 as a small competition consisting of several drifting teams from all over the country in order to organise and regulate Drifting ...
Drift Masters (also known as DM) is a European drifting series founded in 2014. [1] The championship was originally called Drift Masters Grand Prix until aligning with Zigen Promotions (parent company of the Irish Drift Championship and British Drift Championship) to create an official partnership and rebranding to Drift Masters European Championship. [2]