How to drift a car: Safety tips by Ahmad Daham

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Professional drifter and Red Bull athlete, Ahmad Daham – who was winner of Red Bull Car Park Drift’s regional finals in 2014 and 2015 gives tips on how to safely drift a car. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos

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00:00Drifting is, to me it's an art. Drifting is to be in control of a car, but at the same

00:15time not be in control. You would ask, how is that? How is that? Because the car, when

00:20it's going sideways, it loses grip. But at the same time, as a driver, you steer the

00:25steering wheel to be able to control that car losing control. So yeah, and the most

00:30important thing in drifting is to have a rear-wheel drive car, a hydraulic handbrake, and a car

00:35especially for drifting on safe tracks, of course. First of all, the car. The car has

00:40to have a fire extinguisher, has to have a proper seat belt, they have to have their

00:44helmets on, their gloves on, and of course their race shoes on. These are the most important

00:48thing in car drift, and some of them are equipped with roll cages. In case the car rolled over,

00:54the car will still stay in one piece.

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