I attended college in Colorado, which meant winter time, which meant snow. And for me, snow meant fun times in empty parking lots, burning up first gear in my front-wheel-drive student econobox.

As soon as the snow hit the ground, I’d head to the field-house parking lot with a bunch of buddies and start doing donuts or racing around an imaginary track. We’d end up with “parking-brake elbow” after a couple of hours of what is now known as drifting.

Scion has devoted an entire area of their Racing site to drifting, and it is truly amazing how drivers there are able to throw out the tails of their vehicles on a dry road. The snow in Colorado made it more than easy for us to drift but I wouldn’t have attempted anything like it in the summer months. I would have thought it pretty much impossible.

Not so. Scion’s Drift section does a great job detailing the ins and outs of drifting. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift may not be your favorite movie but you can’t help but be at least a bit intrigued watching Tanner Foust leaving a black-drift tattoo all the way up Mulholland Drive—he burns a set of tires, I’m sure, within the two-mile course.
 

The site features drift drivers, their cars and the competitions they enter. You can even ask questions using the Ask the Driver feature:  Hey Tanner, how do I drift my family minivan when the parking brake’s a pedal on the floor?

And of course, the video on the site is incredible—there really is no other way to demonstrate how intense the sport has become.

Check out the rest of the Scion Racing site as well: http://www.scionracing.com

Drive safely!