Drifting beginning

      Drifting beginning to grow in Japan around the mid-1960s, spearheaded the underground motorsport dubbed the rolling zoku. They practice the techniques of the opposite-lock is on the road rally mountains (touge) are winding and slippery unpaved Rokkosan region, Hakone, Irohazaka and Nagano.

        In the 1970s, Kunimitsu Takahashi, a Japanese F1 legend, was inspired when he tried the front of his car following the apex (the point at the edge of a bend) with high speed and use the hand brake to bend it to follow.

           In 2001, Daijiro Inada (founder of Option Magazine and the Tokyo Auto Salon) with Keiichi 'Dorikin' (King Drifting) Tsuchiya (touring riders as well as 'Mr. Professional Drifting') create professional drifting competition series, D1 Grand Prix (D1 GP).