Do professional race car drivers drift?

[S14aMike]

Do professional race car drivers drift while they are racing? Or is drift all for show and not actually faster than grip driving?

[PabloHoney]

I have heard a few stories that Michael Schumaker (Formula1 driver) has been known to drift his car around the oval track banks. Not like a** end out or anything, but you can see that the tail is out farther than the front.

[usuck]

rally racers do

road racers don't, unless it's unintentional:D

[Drift Machine]

yeah on the road it waste more time

but hey, its pretty damn hard to control and it looks really bad arse when they hang their hands out the window while drifting

[Nismo_Freak]

Drifting in a properly set up car isnt hard to control. Drifting is a show thing... its not faster.