I went to a drift school with Toyota’s Formula Drift superstars

Toyota invited us to their Learn to Drift event at Irwindale Speedway in California where we were coached by Toyota’s professional Formula Drift drivers Fredrik Asbo and Ryan Turk.we were promised wheel time GR Corolla, GR Supra, and GR 86 with professional guidance and ride in Supra and Corolla Formula Drift race cars. Most appealing was that Toyota also offered free coffee and donuts to eat. We were journalists, so we were there.

The day started with car control exercises and looked at Toyota’s Performance Trinity, aiming at least for its ability to control and act understeer, control the chassis through cone slalom, call oversteer and control under control. rice field. Formally, it was a car control course. Unofficially it was Donut 101.