Why would a driver deliberately put a 200- to 600-horsepower car into a skid at high speed? Because if he does it right, he could win Singapore’s first drift-racing competition. Unlike speed-based races, drivers in this skidding-pretty competition are judged on how well they adhere to a predetermined course that requires a series of perfectly executed sideways slides, or drifts. Drift drivers from Malaysia, Singapore, the US and Japan will use ‘kansei drifts’, ‘dirt-drop drifts’ and ‘faint drifts’ in the hope the judges get their drift and award them the trophy. 

See ‘Give me a brake’.