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Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a Japanese professional race car driver. He is known as the Drift King (ドリキン, Dorikin) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport.
Tony Angelo (born December 24, 1978) is an American professional drift racer and stunt driver. Angelo formerly drove in the Formula Drift series in his 2013 Scion FR-S for Scion Racing and is also the former host for Motor Trend Channel's Hot Rod Garage.
Steve Moore drifting his Nissan Silvia (S14) around Lydden Hill at King of Europe Round 3 (2014). Drifting is a driving technique where the driver purposely oversteers, with loss of traction, while maintaining control and driving the car through the entirety of a corner or a turn.
The M56 is a four-seat demo drift car complete with a 500 hp VK56DE 5.6L V8 engine. Forsberg Forsberg built this car in 2010 at his shop in Southern California as a four-seat ride-along vehicle. Forsberg custom designed and fabricated the roll cage so that all four bucket seats (Recaro SPG driver seat; SPG XL passenger seats) were able to fit ...
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 ...
Formula DRIFT (also known as Formula D or FD) is an American drifting series, and was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003 as a sister company to Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that introduced D1 Grand Prix to the United States.
2009, finished first at Wonder World Amusement Park in the Formula Drift Asia series. In 2014, he was the first New Zealand drift driver to receive an award from Motorsport New Zealand for outstanding achievement. [16] 2015, finished fifth at Irwindale Formula Drift for his highest finish in the series.
Benson Hsu is an ex-professional drifter from the United States who competed in various auto-racing competitions. Originally known for his black Nissan "Sileighty", he is one of the early Americans to be involved in the sport of drifting, starting in 1999.