Why Keiichi Tsuchiya Started Drifting

I'm posting this video to dispel the widely-believed notion that Keiichi Tsuchiya, worshipped by many as the father of drifting, did it to be faster.

On dry pavement, drifting is almost always slower. Period.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• drift
• keiichi
• tsuchiya
• drifting
• touge
• initial
• d
• ae86
• fast
• furious
• tokyo
• dorifto
• clarkson
• jeremy

[nickJod1234]

Yeah you can tell the difference in styles. America is more about being big, in your face, muscly, speedy and winning things by power. Just like their high school jocks. Other places like Japan seem to focus more on making the best out of little power. My personal preference is the second one. Good video Jeremy - and Wolfe.

[ppbbs88]

nice to see some original drifting. Nowadays its all about overpowered cars with race chassis making lots of smoke. Drifting for me will always be about lightly modified street cars on tight, windy tracks or touge passes.

[ALIVIETCONG]

he was very young in this video.

[nickJod1234]

@TEDDERAMA Yeah. But I don't want to single out America... cause the world seems to hate America these days, but not all of America is power greedy. Lots of Americans care about the world outside of muscle. They know loads about Japanese and English and Italian cars.

[TEDDERAMA]

@nickJod1234 Unfortunately people like to show off, but its not the majority. most of the time these people are shunned for being an ass.

But i agree on the power comment. I get people all the time that ONLY look at horsepower or torque figures and bench race. People cant realize that a 2700lb car w/300hp can beat a 3800lb car w/400. No one seems to understand that torque isn't everything, if you have less rational mass to overcome. I could go on...

[CGC3agl3]

@nickJod1234 yeah America is all about noise and smoke. Japanese drifting is all about precision driving

[takashisupreme]

@DexterFishbourne racing is a sport that need a driver steer steering, use braking technique, shifting up and down technique and much more, not just floor the gas and shift at the straight line quarter to a mile.. then hoorah win..

[binhonz]

Thank you for the video! I was one of the people you mentioned that believed drifting came to be because one wanted to go faster on the bends. I still preffer drift racing over drift show though, way more...

[N0sPr4Yu]

i drift because it isnt the fastest way around the corner , but hte most exciting

[Sasori327]

@nickJod1234 yeah, america became rich and spoiled with big powerful cars, and japan just made do with what they had.

[rey1164]

@lilaztekjaguar hes buntas far cousin....bunta showed him the ropes

[DrKelso85]

@lilaztekjaguar There's a reason for that