In motorsports, drag racing is the 100-meter sprint, NASCAR is middle distance, Le Mans is the marathon, and drifting is gymnastics. You can’t argue that it’s easy to slide a car sideways, tires blazing, around corners, avoiding obstacles, coming as close as possible to the walls, and dancing in sync with another car doing the same act inches away. The driver must have absolute control over the machine, but the naysayers still counter that it’s not the same as a race because it all boils down to judges who score the aesthetics of the performance. You can’t remove the subjective part of drifting, and that will always rub some traditional race fans the wrong way. However, like any form of motorsport, the more you know about the particular discipline, the…