Thanks for playing! Yeah, great point, the keyboard controls aren't great unfortunately. Someone pointed out that I should have made drift be Left Shift and I agree. Hopefully if I develop this more I'll add some kind of control-customization feature. Once I added controller support I never went back to using the keyboard, and I have years of weird Q/E + WASD strafing under my belt from playing WoW so I never considered how hard they keyboard controls would be for most people (including my Dad, should have had him playtest before the release...). Thanks again!
Edit to add: The "How to Play" doesn't mention this but you can also use Arrow Keys for steering/gas/break and still use the Q and E keys for mode swapping and drifting, that may make it easier although it's still quite not as good as using a controller.