Bruce Nunnally Posted May 11, 2006 Report Share Posted May 11, 2006 By Chris Ayotte Marketing Manager Pontiac Solstice Drifting – the art of defying a car’s traction into a controlled slide sideways around corners at breakneck speeds – is still below the radar for a lot of Americans, but the sport continues to grow nonetheless. Sound confusing? Tracing its origins back to on Japan’s winding mountain roads in the 1960s, drifting was a full-fledged and heavily funded motorsport in Japan by the 1980s. It arrived in the United States in the late 1990s, and has been gaining in popularity ever since, boosted by the cult following of the Japanese Manga/Anime series Initial D. This summer, American movie-going audiences will get hit with a full dose of the drifting phenomenon with the third installment of The Fast and The Furious trilogy, subtitled Tokyo Drift. http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/archives/2006/...g_champs_1.html Bruce 2023 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing Follow me on: Twitter Instagram Youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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