relax 1200rallycar - you can probably tell it was designed to get a bit of a rise out of you, so don't take it so hard...

Motorsport, without exception, involves the use of some form of timing equipment. That's how you know who wins. If its not a race against the clock, and instead you're scored on 'style', that ain't motorsport. Unless you count burnouts as motorsport? What about lowriders bouncing around in car parks?

Rice is about the style aspect of car modification(well to them anyway). And you can't deny that drifting is all about 'style', so drifting is the 'rice' of the motorsport world.

I don't particularly see the point of drifting, or understand the attraction to it. It seems to me a terrible waste of perfectly good racetracks. What's the point of getting on a racetrack if you don't want to see how fast you can go around it? Are they afraid of something? Afraid of going fast through corners? Afraid of getting to the limits? Afraid of seeing their times perhaps?

I'm much more impressed by guys who get sideways in order to be the fastest through a corner - ie rally drivers. There is a point to that. Not just showing off to their mates, and that's another thing that links drifting to burnouts, lowriders, and traffic light derbies - the show off factor. I'm also impressed by drivers who walk that fine line of pushing their cars to the limits of adhesion, pushing ten tenths through corners, maybe getting a little out of shape because their trying so hard. That's a test of car control. Deliberately breaking traction and just hanging the tail out does nothing for me. If you want to drive sideways in carparks, have a go at a motorkhana. At least they are a test of skill, where getting it sideways is a means to getting the best time.