I thought the point of drifting was to have your drive wheels spinning as the car slides sideways. Or do they just spin the rear wheels to lose grip on the back end?
a drift is oversteer, "tapping" the handbrake on a rear wheel drive basically locks the drive wheels, causing it to oversteer quicker, then its a matter of keeping a steady throttle, not too much but enough to then once the car is straight (pointing in the direction you wanna go) then you can kick out of the corner and fly off.
Where as withn a FWD car you need to hold the handbrake, because as soon as you take it off, the traction on the front wheels drags the car the way the car is steering (pulling you out of the "drift/slide"
Thus why if you hit it hard into a corner (You will notice the engine "lift" the front end up - thus when you wheels spin - but when you take it off the front end drops, giving you more traction) - so hit it hard into a corner, then off the throttle, makes it grab traction, causing the back end to "kick" out, then use constant throttle, not too much blah blah, and that is the only way you will technically drift in a FWD car,
but as i said it is me being anal about it!
P.S. ADVISE do not try it on open roads, best bet is to find some old carpark, GRAVEL is the best, easier to loose the back end, BUT make sure you wont hit any thing!