Usually four-wheel drifting is something we see with young go-fasters who want to impress young girls and these young lads own young fast cars plus have a lot of money to waste on the tires they destroy.
Note: I was meaning to take a picture for a while of the marks from a recent burnout with my estimation of, yep, it looks like that one cost Casanova about fifty bucks and all it got from his girlfriend was the silent question, "Why the fuck did I bother with perfume this morning?"
There's a whole lot of drifting in rally races but these lunatics deliberately drive on any kind of surface and road adhesion is questionable most of the time.
The video is a compilation of videos featuring unbelievable driving which stayed unbelievable right up until they crashed. That's where the insane got certifiable since the recoveries from those crashes were split-second and most of them worked.
Note: some crashes were not recovered but they did not appear to have had the potential for lethality.
Hopefully you will get off on it from the astounding driving skills plus their willingness to do things on blind trust is more madness than many of us will ever grok. You see above in the pic that the car is going over the top of a blind hill and he does it strictly based on the advice of his navigator plus the faith in turn marshals to keep him apprised of the corner status.
Ed: there probably are no turn marshals in a rally!
Welcome to racing out in the bush.
If one of these maniacs had been driving, Goose would still be alive.
Note: reference to "Top Gun" in which Maverick got Goose croaked.
Note: I was meaning to take a picture for a while of the marks from a recent burnout with my estimation of, yep, it looks like that one cost Casanova about fifty bucks and all it got from his girlfriend was the silent question, "Why the fuck did I bother with perfume this morning?"
There's a whole lot of drifting in rally races but these lunatics deliberately drive on any kind of surface and road adhesion is questionable most of the time.
The video is a compilation of videos featuring unbelievable driving which stayed unbelievable right up until they crashed. That's where the insane got certifiable since the recoveries from those crashes were split-second and most of them worked.
Note: some crashes were not recovered but they did not appear to have had the potential for lethality.
Hopefully you will get off on it from the astounding driving skills plus their willingness to do things on blind trust is more madness than many of us will ever grok. You see above in the pic that the car is going over the top of a blind hill and he does it strictly based on the advice of his navigator plus the faith in turn marshals to keep him apprised of the corner status.
Ed: there probably are no turn marshals in a rally!
Welcome to racing out in the bush.
If one of these maniacs had been driving, Goose would still be alive.
Note: reference to "Top Gun" in which Maverick got Goose croaked.
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Reminds me of cruising with Lotho in your middle brother's Trans Am in the 70's. I still get heart palpitations from the memories! But good times
It's one blazing miracle that anyone survived that time! Every single person who drove that car got busted in it with Lotho and I claiming the prize since both of us were busted in it on the same night at different times. Cops busted him and wouldn't let him drive the car home. I was pissed for being awakened and figured, let's see if they can catch me before I get it home. They did.
Great times (larfs).
To see drifting at its finest check out
Ken Block in any Gymkana I prefer the years he drove a Solstice Turbo as I had one during those years. The most fun I ever had in a street car was that little car.
How I survived Doc Trans Am or Mom's 'Cuda I will never know.
I was so over my head in those cars so many times I actually thought that since I could wheel a go kart naturally I could wheel a car
None of us had any right to survive it and one of my favorites was with Doc in the Sunbeam Alpine and we were racing Joe the Jeweler who was driving a Dodge 440. The course was a backroad down a hill behind Aiken High School and it had lots of twists and turns. That stunt turned out as insanely as you would expect and that wasn't even the most dangerous compared to others nothing but dumb luck carried.
One sight correction Joe drive a Plymouth GTX 440. Still jealous of his ride
Whoops and thanks on that. I still remember him sliding off the road into the brush but he would stay in it and come roaring back out of the shrubbery onto the road again. Didn't help, tho (larfs).
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