I guess we need to clarify things. If your talking about street drifting then sure Sam was street drifting in Melbourne before Matt and I had our skylines. But saying that MCCR had unofficial drift meetings in Dandenong at least 2 years before I met Sam. Dr Drift still lived in Adelaide back then. Mark, Trav and Yenda could tell you all about it. Hell I was out there too sliding my Telstar TX5 Turbo and I was 17 and had just got my licence. Note that I mett Sam when I was 19 back in 2002/3. I’m sure before MCCR there where heaps of people ripping up and using rally techniques on the streets too.
If your talking about starting competitive drifting then you can not argue that Full Lock were the first organisation in the country to educate CAMS, Adelaide, Victoria and New South Wales race tracks on what drifting was all about. Note that the SR20 club educated Queenslanders. But FLM were the first national competition at Queensland Raceway.
Now Queenslanders have been street drifting for the longest time in Australia unless you include denzo. It started by a group of Jap drifters living in QLD and hitting the streets now this was back in 1999/2000. They also taught a number of local QLDers how to drift at this time.
So in a nut shell. Sam wasnt the first person to street drift in Melbourne. Full Lock were the first people to introduce drifting to Victorian motorsport authorities.