DEFINITION
Touch & go is a brief, controlled contact with a clipping point, wall, or proximity marker without losing the run. It is high-skill (you brushed the line at the right place) but a fingertip away from disaster (more contact = damage).
Judges credit it as positive proximity if the contact is at the prescribed clip and the run continues clean. They penalise it if it is anywhere else.
HISTORY & ORIGIN
Touch & go entered drift vocabulary via Formula Drift wall-clip courses (notably Long Beach), where the wall is part of the prescribed line.
TECHNIQUE BREAKDOWN
Driver carries angle into the marked clip, allows the rear quarter to brush it on the way past, and continues without losing slide or angle.
PRO TIPS & COMMON MISTAKES
• Practice touch & go on a soft tyre wall before doing it on concrete. The car will tell you what 'enough contact' feels like.
• Common mistake: trying touch & go on a clip that's not designed for it. Most clips are cone clips, not wall clips.
Her rear quarter touched the second wall clip cleanly and she continued through to the exit gate.