I love Youtube, I'm actually addicted to it. I'm also addicted to cars, obviously this led me into watching countless videos of car footage. After looking through hundreds of Australian, European, and Russian drifitng videos, I stumbled across one called "Erhabe."
"Erhabe" had other tags such as "Iraqi," "Saudi," and also to my liking "Drift." What I saw was truly amazing and very scary. These arabs were speeding down highways at 80+ MPH drifting in between cars and their grand finale was a 720 spin driving off. Essentially they were doing dori dori technique of drifting between cars and semi-trucks. I was amazed at their skill and at their death wish. In these videos you will see spectators occasionally hit as well, because of the lack of guard rails in these Arab states.
The most impressive thing about these Saudi and Iraqi drifters is that unlike "traditional" drifters that have MONSTER Horspower derived from Godzilla, these Arabs drift with the US equivalents of Toyota Camry and Hyundai Sedans. Yes, front wheel drifting! Its very interesting to study their technique, they are carrying a lot of speed before they rock their car into drifting. From some of the interior video clips they hardly use the e-brake to lose traction. That must mean they are either carrying great speed. The roads over there must also be very dusty, thus reducing the coefficient of friction as well.
Nonetheless, its very impressive and very dangerous. I wonder what these guys would be capable of with legit racecars and tracks!
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