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opic of much debate among racing fans, the origin of drifting continues to generate plenty of spirited debate in online drifting communities to this day. While the identity of the first driver in history who purposefully over-steered his car to create a sideways drift will forever be lost in the mists of time, the origin of the drifting in modern motor-sports is well documented. The honour lies with Japanese racer Kunimitsu Takahashi, who pioneered drifting techniques in races in the mid to late '70s.
Originally a motorcycle racer, Takahashi found fame in 1961 as the first ever Japanese rider to win the Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix on a 250cc Honda. A serious injury in 1962 cut short his motorcycle racing career and made Takahashi switch to racing in cars. While racing the Japanese circuits Takahashi began using various drifting manoeuvres out of necessity to take on tight corners while maintaining speed. Not only did it help Takahashi win races, drifting on the speedway also won him many followers among the fans. Fans were excited by this brand new style of racing and Takahashi's crowd-pleasing antics on the track filled the stands.
Takahashi's drifting style caught the eye of Keiichi Tsuchiya, a brash young street racer and rising star of Japan's Formula 3 scene. Not content to merely copy Takahashi's techniques on the race track, Tsuchiya wanted to take drifting to the next level by making it a motor-sport in its own right. Tsuchiya began to hone his craft on the windy roads of Japanese mountain passes. The constant barrage of twists, turns and bends on such roads provided the perfect opportunity for continuous drifting. Tsuchiya attempts to take an obscure racing technique and change it into an art-form on those winding Japanese mountain roads have become the stuff of legends. The Japanese word for mountain pass, Touge [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], has become part of the vocabulary of the drift racing scene around the world.
With the help of a few tuning and car magazines, Tsuchiya produced a short video featuring his drifting skills and techniques titled 'Pluspy'. The video debuted in 1987 and was an instant hit inspiring many amateurs and professionals [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], all of whom wholeheartedly embraced this new sport. Soon after the release of the video Keiichi Tsuchiya and some partners went on to organise the world's first ever drift event called the D1 Grand Prix, sparking a worldwide fascination with the sport that endures to this day. D1 Grand Prix is the closest thing drifting has to an official 'governing body', and the organisation remains at the forefront of global drifting tournaments in Japan and around the world.
Since the first D1 tournament in 1988 drifting has made a huge impact in the world of automotive sports. Drifting pervades modern car culture at every level; drift-racing take place in D1 sanctioned tournaments at the world's biggest race-tracks and also on impromptu races held illegally on public roads. Unlike Formula-1 or stock car racing the ease of entry into drift racing means that there is a thriving, yet highly illegal, underground drift racing scene where amateurs race each other in modified Japanese imports on the open road.
D1 championship events are now held all over the world, with major events taking place in Japan, the United States, UK, Malaysia and New Zealand. Outside the D1 Grand Prix umbrella there exists a number of highly successful local drifting organisations in many countries. These home-grown drifting associations hold their own tournaments and events that cater to the local drifting scene. Some of these influential organisations include the D1NZ and NZ Drift Series in New Zealand [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Pro-Drift Mania in Canada, Formula-D in the US, Superdrift in Italy, and the British Drift Championship in the UK.