Here’s the latest from Australian videographer, Scott Mitchell. I need more beautiful Australian women in my life.
Welcome to the world of downhill drift trikes. These are custom made adult sized tricycles with heavy duty BMX or mountain bike front wheels and brakes paired with PVC pipe rear wheels. Red Bull sponsors a series called Slider Kings in Europe where they ride these down really long mountain roads. This footage is from New Zealand where they run their events like professional drifting events. These guys are given a defined course with clipping points and they’re slides are judged for speed and angle. Qualifying happens individually and then the competition runs are run in tandem just like the automotive equivalent. Looks like some serious fun.
**NSFW WARNING** The soundtrack to this video has bad language. Mute it if you need to.
This is a quick documentary by Video Option detailing the birth of drifting and the subsequent formation of the D1 Grand Prix professional drift series in Japan.
Network A has been doing an incredible job editing videos of Vaughn Gittin Jr’s Formula D season this year. Here’s another one from Round 3 at Palm Beach. The round was eventually won by Daigo Saito in the Achilles Tires Lexus SC430.
This pit bike mod is really an extension of Chris Harris’s Space Saver Experiment. The theory is that a car that is fast around a track isn’t necessarily fun. How fun a car is depends on its power to grip ratio. Basically it’s more fun if it’s easy to kick the back end out. These guys replaced the rear tire of their tiny pit bike with plastic tricycle wheels and round about drift madness ensues.
**NSFW WARNING** The Papa Roach soundtrack has a couple of bad words.