Some of us dismiss drifting as figure skating, with cars instead of skates. Sure, it looks like fun, but so is drinking beer, and there aren’t serious competitions for that, right? There doesn’t seem to be actual competition between cars, like traditional racing. And like figure skating, three judges score the performance so there’s no conclusive winner—it’s subjective—or so it seems. At the 2016 SEMA Show, the chances of going to a display and finding drift cars are up exponentially over last year. And Ford has been drifting cars in the SEMA lot outside of the show for years, with crowds surrounding the course all day, every day. Chevy has got to be jealous.
It appears drifting is taking over the whole of SEMA. So we’re going to go in with all of our prejudices and stupid questions and find out the what’s, where’s, and how’s of drifting, with this vid we call Drifting For Dimwits. We have assembled Sam and Doj from our sister pub Super Street, and Angelo from HOT ROD Garage, who did drifting professionally on the East Coast. With Thom Taylor as the dimwit, an easy position for him to take, we dive into drifting, catching a ride at the Ford display and then asking our experts the dorky questions, to drill down to get the drift of drifting.
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