Drifting

DriftingOn a cool December night at the California Speedway in Fontana, 15,000 fans watch as two turbocharged cars--one with an American driver, the other a Japanese--roll alongside each other and gun their engines to a full growl over a quarter-mile straightaway in what could be a drag race but soon takes on the look and sound of something that usually ends in a gathering of police cars, ambulances and maybe the Jaws of Life. At 100 miles an hour at the end of the straight, both drivers pull th...