| If you have any interest in auto sports at all, you | | | | nearly always takes place in a stadium, racing |
| will surely have heard of stock car racing. The | | | | around a track. Formula Drifting usually takes |
| term 'stock car' simply refers to the fact that the | | | | place on asphalt, but sometimes on dirt too, but it |
| cars used to be stock items at local garages. | | | | can also take place in a parking lot or a desolate |
| Consequently, stock car racing includes NASCAR | | | | street. If Drifters use a stadium they are unlikely |
| and dirt track racing. These are the most | | | | to use the full length of the track. |
| widespread varieties of stock car racing, but | | | | The winning driver in standard stock car races is |
| there is another that is far less well-known. It is | | | | the one who drives over the finishing line in the |
| called Formula D or Formula Drifting | | | | quickest time. This is not so in Formula D as there |
| Many people imagine that because Formula D uses | | | | is no finishing line as such. Drifters are judged on |
| similar cars to the other stock car races, then | | | | their ability to drift or skid and their ability to |
| Formula D is a form of racing cars as well. Even | | | | control that drift. They have to do it at speed |
| though these sports do have certain things in | | | | and remain on the 'track' as well. |
| common besides the kinds of cars they use, they | | | | This means that a drifter has to have a very high |
| are in fact very different. however, they do all | | | | level of control over his vehicle, just like any other |
| come under the banner of motor sports or auto | | | | racing driver, but the set of skills is slightly |
| sports. | | | | different. All drivers have to be able to manage |
| In the majority of motor sports, the car's ability | | | | the occasional skid, particularly the accidental ones, |
| to go fast and the driver's talent to encourage it | | | | but drifters have to be able to do it with style |
| to go fast are what are the most important | | | | and panache. |
| considerations in winning a race. However, in | | | | The only stumbling block from the spectators' |
| Formula D or Formula Drifting, it is the driver's | | | | point of view is that Formula Drifting meetings are |
| ability to control a skid or a drift which is the | | | | pretty infrequent when compared with stockcar |
| most important, although the cars can be really | | | | events. This is a shame because Formula Drifting |
| awesome beasts too at between 200 and 600 | | | | is an exciting motor sport to watch and you can |
| bhp. | | | | see world professional champions in action for a |
| Drifting and stock car racing usually take place at | | | | small percentage of the cost of watching stock |
| different kinds of venues too. Stockcar racing | | | | car racing. |