When Vaughn Gittin Jr. and Chelsea DeNofa get together, you know some tires are about to be shredded. The drifting duo recently released a video of a drift battle in their modified Ford Mustangs on North Carolina back roads. The location, near Wilkesboro, North Carolina, had plenty of twists and turns, reminding Gittin Jr. of Japan’s Touge…
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It’s not every day that you see a Bugatti Chiron drifting, but to celebrate reaching the halfway point of production of the Chiron Pur Sport, Bugatti sent a driver out in one to smoke some tires. On Thursday, Bugatti released the footage. Focused more on road-course readiness than top speed, the Pur Sport was unveiled in 2020, underwent testing…
Chinese electric performance brand Zeekr has set two Guinness World Records with its 001 hot hatch. The Zeekr 001 set a record for the fastest drift by an electric car, by hitting a top speed of 124.2 mph during some drift action, and for the fastest EV slalom, by weaving between 50 equally spaced cones in 49.05 seconds. The records were broken…
(Editor’s note: During the month of January, the ClassicCars.com Journal presents a series of stories related to and perhaps explaining the recent increase in interest in collecting cars produced by Japan-based automakers.) In the last 15 years, the rise of a new motorsport has captured young hearts while creating its own lifestyle and…
The Porsche Taycan has set Guinness World Record for longest drift by an electric vehicle, the automaker announced Tuesday. Porsche driving instructor Dennis Retera did 210 laps of a 200-meter skidpad with the rear wheels spinning gloriously. Porsche press release said the front wheels never pointed in the same direction as the curve, but that’s…
Ken Block is passing his drifting skills onto the next generation. The YouTube star taught his 13-year-old daughter Lia how to drift and posted a YouTube video of the madness on Thursday. Proving the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, she seemed to get the hang of it pretty quickly. Having just taught her to drive stick three days prior (in a…
The 2020 Toyota Supra is headed to Formula Drift, but its BMW-sourced 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6 won’t burn up its rear tires. Instead, it’s headed to the top drift series with a venerable 3.0-liter 2JZ inline-6 from the fourth-generation car under the hood. Professional drifter Daigo Saito posted photos to Instagram of his latest Formula D…
The 2020 Toyota Supra is headed to Formula Drift, but its BMW-sourced 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-6 won’t burn up its rear tires. Instead, it’s headed to the top drift series with a venerable 3.0-liter 2JZ inline-6 from the fourth-generation car under the hood. Professional drifter Daigo Saito posted photos to Instagram of his latest Formula D…