The Evolution of Drifting

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Circa 1987

"Pluspy" known as the first drifting video to date, was produced. In collaboration with Tsuchiya, several car magazines and tuning garages, this video was made to display Tsuchiya's "drifting" skills in the mountain passes of Japan.



Interesting enough, he accomplish the task of getting his racing licenses, for only it to be suspended literally soon after this video. He still continued to do illegal street racing during the time. Studying the tail-sliding technique of Takahashi, Tsuchiya (Dorikin) honed and practiced the technique. Thus creating a completely different style of driving, Drifting. From this point on, (which I can only speculate and is up for debate) this is where Drifting, becomes separated into it's own discipline. This is where Drifting as we know it now, is considered "Drifting". It has a different objective, a different purpose, different circumstances and distinguished enough from all other driving disciplines and styles. This is where it becomes more or less a driving art form. I believe drifting during this time of "Pluspy" and real early days was more of the "cool" and "trendy" thing to do, instead of actually taking it to a motorsport-class level (which soon after it would be with the help of Daijiro Inada)