How drifting became mainstream

When some people think of “drift places” most think of Mehian, Ebisu, or a local track, but some people haven’t heard of the place that started drifting; “Hakone”

Hakone Nanamagari (also called “Old Tokaido 732” is bascially where drifting started, yes, your 800HP+ Mustang originally started from 112HP Honda Civic’s and Toyota AE86’s drifting on a pass having fun.

Now what most Americans (not gonna be a hypocrite) think drifting is, is Formula D, though it is considered drifting, to me,and many oldschool fans, it is just rubbish.

So here is how you drift on Hakone Nanamagari:
-Uphill drifting
Stay in the left-hand lane going uphil, cross lanes on the short straightaway then come back into the left lane on the next corner
-DownhillDrive slow
Stop at each corner, be careful when taking the hairpinHonk rapidly if a uphill car crashes or spins out
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That is how Hakone 732 works;

Hakone Nanamagari (sometime in the late 80s)
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DRIFT TEAM AMIGO FC3S!
The not-so-legendary Master Mixer Amigo drift team, was a HUGE drift team in the late 80s-mid 90s consisting of PS13’s, FC3S’s AE86’s, ETC. the team died out in the late 90s due to new school track drifting taking over.

Nissan PS13 drifting on Hakone, in the background is the lineup of cars waiting very patiently, as uphill cars begin to start their run
(Sometime in 1994-ish)

Toyota MR2 Hakone Uphill run (Sometime in the late 1980s)
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[Source: @stanced90s (Instagram)]
Mazda FC3S drifting Hakone probably sometime in the mid 90s

Hairpin!
(1996)

Driftin’ in ‘92.
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RIGHT! Now that Hakone Nanamagari is out of the way, it’s time to get into the more speed and intense drifting, same era, different place
This certain place is called
“Sadamine pass”
Sadamine pass is a more; straight pass. and drifters did the same on Hakone, only a bit more.. faster.

The legend himself, Master Mixer Amigo PS13! This PS13 is probably one of the best pass drifters of the 1990s, though unknown to most.

All the information in this post is provided by;
@jdm90s
@stanced90s
(instagram)
banpai
Itsuki85
YouTube
Minkara
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The goal of this post is to educate people into Hakone and how it started the drifting scene. Thank you!
Though I skipped over track drifting (which CARBOY started) (If you don’t know what CARBOY is, it’s bascially a car tuning magazine and VHS option video which started in the 80s.) But this is how most of the car drift mods you see started from
So remember that a little old road that has been overgrown by trees, plants, ETC which no one drives on, is how the drifting you know and love started from.