i have the theory about driving sideways or neatly - it depends on what type of car did driver learn to go fast in his youth. as some 20 years ago most rallycars were rwd, it also required more use of oversteer, and it came along when drivers started use 4wd cars. current generation guys have used more fwd cars and thus throw back-end much less than ones who drove rwd cars in youth. of-course, this is not absolute thruth. for example Markko Märtin was also very neat driver (comparing to Rovanpera for example, who used much more tires) and though he entered rally world in Lada 2108 (fwd), he has credited many times Estonian Rally champ Ivar Raidam as his mentor and one from who he learned his clean driving style, but Raidam (though he was extremely clean driver) drove rwd Ladas before 4wd mitsus, so this theory of first cars doesnt hold in this case...