It is easily one of the coolest-looking maneuvers you can do in a vehicle, and it’s also one of the most misunderstood. While drifting might seem like a simple technique, it requires the type of mastery one can only appreciate if given the opportunity to attempt it.
Trust me; I’m speaking from firsthand experience.
Determined to get a car sideways, I recently met up with professional drifting champion Ken Gushi for my first lesson on the delicate art of deliberate oversteer in a 2013 Scion FR-S. Although I had never underestimated the technicality involved, by the end of the day my already-established respect for professional drifters had doubled.
With Gushi as my coach, I learned the intricacies of what this craft demands, as I worked to execute the intensive car-control that drifting, by definition, requires. Find out what happened on my first attempt at the track on this week’s episode of Wide Open Throttle.
–Jessi Lang
Trust me; I’m speaking from firsthand experience.
Determined to get a car sideways, I recently met up with professional drifting champion Ken Gushi for my first lesson on the delicate art of deliberate oversteer in a 2013 Scion FR-S. Although I had never underestimated the technicality involved, by the end of the day my already-established respect for professional drifters had doubled.With Gushi as my coach, I learned the intricacies of what this craft demands, as I worked to execute the intensive car-control that drifting, by definition, requires. Find out what happened on my first attempt at the track on this week’s episode of Wide Open Throttle.
–Jessi Lang
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