Often, when a video on the Internet combines a rear-wheel drive sports car with a rather optimistic driver in his sporty driving, it ends badly. But in this video the driver is nothing new as he is none other than Vaughn Gittin Jr. is a professional drifter. And not just anyone, because this American from Maryland has won the Formula D drift championship several times! The star of several viral videos and even video games, it is also Ford’s competition partner, but also failed to build several Ford RTR models.

Mastery of drifting

As they say when this man puts the car across, he knows how to drive a slide perfectly! And that’s exactly what he demonstrates in this video, where we see him behind the wheel of a brand new Ford Mustang. In the parking lot, the driver sends the Ford into several sequences of very generous skids. And all this passes a few centimeters away from large concrete blocks. Commenting on this video posted on his social media, Vaughn Gittin Jr. explains, “You’ll never believe me when I tell you this was a brand new Mustang with an EcoBoost automatic! Yes, it’s fun, and yes, the drift brake is awesome! »

Drift brake

Because yes, one of the characteristics of the new generation Mustang that Ford recently introduced this is a drift brake. As in competitive drift cars, this lever locks the wheels for easy drifting and beautiful tricks. And this accessory is not intended for the most powerful 500 horsepower Mustang V8, but it is also available with Four-cylinder Ecoboost engine with a capacity of 300 horsepower as Vaughn Gittin Jr. points out.