When Toyota invited us to its Learn to Drift event at the Irwindale Speedway in California for some tuition by Toyota’s professional Formula Drift drivers Fredric Aasbo and Ryan Tuerck, it was a no-brainer to say yes. We were promised wheel time with the GR Corolla, the GR Supra, and GR 86 with guidance from the pros, then a ride-along in the Supra and Corolla Formula Drift race cars. Most compellingly, Toyota also offered free coffee and edible donuts, and we’re journalists, so we were there.
The day started with car control exercises, working our way through Toyota’s performance trinity with the aim of, at the very least, competency in controlling and working understeer, controlling the chassis through a cone slalom, then invoking oversteer and then keeping it going under control. Officially, it was a Car Control Course. Unofficially, it was Donuts 101.
