The art of driving using deliberate oversteer cause traction loss at the rear wheels through turns while maintaining high vehicle exit speed is called drifting. There have been other names in the Caribbean that are lesser known, like fishtailing, mopping and sending it broad. Fishtailing comes from Trinidad, referring to the rear of the car dancing like a fish, mopping from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands where they likened it to the action of a mop and Barbados thinks of seeing the broadside of a the car coming out of the turn, rather than the front as you normally would.
Whereas the amateur driver may manage a powerslide or perhaps a burnout or even a donut i.e. burning tires in a circular fashion, leaving large tire marks in the process, drifting is a much more advanced series of driving techniques. A car is considered to be drifting when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle prior to the corner apex. In this situation, the front wheels would need to be pointing in the opposite direction of the turn (i.e. if the car is turning left, the front wheels would be pointing right or vice-versa) and the driver must maintain perfect control to slide through the turn.
