As the motorsport of drifting expands and matures in the United States, the range of cars competing at events has grown beyond the stereotypical Nissan Silvia (240SX) / AE86 Toyota Corolla / Nissan Skyline / Toyota Supra contingent. The first we heard of a Lexus IS300 entering the drifting scene was in 2004, when Chuck Goldsborough's Performance Engineering, Inc. (then doing business as Team Lexus) set up one of his cars for drifting, and entered it in several U.S. Drift series events that year.
Early the following year, Super Street magazine's February 2005 issue featured a cover article on the HKS Drift Altezza that competed in the D1 Grand Prix series. Then, in mid-2006 came word of Team Lexus' return to the drifting scene, with their third-generation car now running under the aegis of the Formula Drift series. And this past April brought us word that Team Falken decided to put together a Lexus IS350 drift car to be driven by Hiro Sumida which would eventually compete in the aforementioned Formula Drift series.
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