WRC Driver Penalized For Sick Drift Around Monaco Hairpin The 2025 FIA World Rally Championship kicked off last weekend with the 93rd edition of Rallye Monte-Carlo. While the venerated event is known for its sights, sounds and spectacle, rally organizers would like to keep the show on the designated stage route. Stewards handed WRC2 driver Oliver Solberg a punitive… Read more…

Rutledge Wood Turned An Old School Toyota Pickup Into A Drift Car With Lowrider Vibes A slammed, sparkly pink Japanese pickup truck from the 1990s is the last thing I’d ever thought I’d see from Rutledge Wood. Yet that’s exactly what the former “Top Gear” host brought to Toyota’s SEMA booth. Read more…

Hyundai’s RN24 Drift Kart Is My Favorite New Car Drift karts rock. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N rocks. Hyundai, in its infinite wisdom, decided to combine the two into this: The RN24, a tube shell with the barest bits of body wrapped around it. Oh, and the full 640 horsepower of the Ioniq 5 N. Read more…

Mad Mike’s Triple-Rotor McLaren P1 Is The Wildest Drift Car Yet Mad Mike Whiddett has some of the coolest cars out there — especially his drift stable. Earlier this year, Whiddett started on his boldest project yet: Dressing up a McLaren 650S GT3 in P1 GTR bodywork, slapping a triple-rotor engine in back and getting it sideways at Goodwood. Read more…

Watch Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya Slide Hyundai EVs Around A Track If you’re familiar with the Drift King, Keiichi Tsuchiya, you know he loves to take very cool cars and get them slideways on track. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is a very cool car, as are the RN22e and Vision N 74 concepts. So naturally, when Hyundai handed Tsuchiya the keys to all three, he wasted no time kicking their… Read more…

Watch Ryan Tuerck Drift The Crap Out Of A Vintage Toyota Truck At Goodwood Festival Of Speed The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a hillclimb eventfounded over 30 years ago that takes place in West Sussex, England every summer. Goodwood isn’t known for being a particularly rowdy automotive event, in fact the website recommends “smart casual” as the dress code,but that didn’t stop New Hampshire–born pro drifter… Read more…

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Formula DRIFT Is Back Formula DRIFT is back, baby, kicking off another year of sliding in Long Beach, California. The rules have changed (a little), the cars spent the offseason getting tested and tuned, and everything’s shaping up for a great year of drifting. Except that damn rain. Read more…

Watch F1 Drivers Learn To Drift Formula 1 is all about precise car control, mastering the most minute movements to shave thousandths of a second off every lap. Drifting, by contrast, is all about big, flashy moves and tire smoke. So how does an expert in one discipline do when challenged to the other? Read more…

This Drift Mustang Wallride Is The Hardest Hit You’ll See Today Being among the best in Formula Drift these days means dancing on the knife edge, using huge power to overwhelm lots of grip, and making big slides and tons of smoke in order to make your run look good. It also requires incredible precision, getting your bumper millimeters from a hard concrete wall without tapping it,… Read more…

Hyperkin’s new Xbox controller has drift-free sticks in a PlayStation-style layout A licensed Xbox controller with a bit of a PlayStation vibe. | Image: HyperkinThird-party controller makers are continuing to pick up the slack from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo when it comes to making more durable, drift-proof controllers. Hyperkin is announcing the Competition, an Xbox-licensed wired controller for Xbox Series X / S and PC wi…