Drifting at Walking Pace on a Japanese Frozen Lake Will Give You the Giggles

Let's take Team Orange, for instance. These guys and gals head out to the Yachiho Lake in Nagano's national park, using the frozen surface of the lake much like rally drivers from Northern countries do.

However, since this is a national park, they can't follow the Scandinavian way and use studded rubber. And when their studless tires meet the kind of ice that will easily make you fall while attempting to walk over it, hilarity ensues.

These drifters pull extreme slip angles at walking pace. No really, they do. Using these tires means the shenanigan makes for brilliant practice, as your mistakes are easily punished.

However, given the amusing velocity, severe errors only lead to an intimate contact with the snow. And these drifters have no problem with their cars getting a small dose of frozen water.

After all, this form of practice doesn't require too much oomph, which is why the powersliders turn to the cheaper naturally aspirated cars for the sessions.

Frankly, there's no drawback to this kind of sliding habit. And while it might seem easy at first, if you pay close attention to the footage below, you'll notice the drivers are using the kind of techniques required by top tier racing.

That includes two- or three-car battles, and with the kind of hefty error margin such a playground delivers, the vehicles can get closer to each other than outsiders may imagine.

In a way, it all resembles the drifting games we can now play on our smartphones, and we're talking about the arcade, not the simulation stuff here. You don't get a slow-mo button, but it all feels like this due to the limited speed, while bouncing off the ice walls actually works.

We must thank Noriyaro for the footage, with the racer being far from his first adventure in Japan that allows us to indulge in the kind of motorized shenanigans they handle over there.