Leave it to the Arab world to deliver the wildest driving stunts we've ever seen, stunts that make human life as easily replaceable as a broken rear diff. Since the world may have gotten tired of Hagwallah (you know, Arab Drifting), it seems drivers in that part of the world start sliding early nowadays. And by that we mean the age of three.
We are kidding (pun not intended) you not - a three-year-old in Iraq has been given extreme driving lessons by his father, with the preschooler now being able to pull donuts.
The footage at the bottom of the page shows the kid behind the wheel of a BMW, with the young one putting on a spinning show. While it's obvious the child is more like hanging on to the car as the 5-Series starts to spin, he seems to catch the slide as the modded E34 starts sliding around. Should we call this boyhandling?
In fact, you can see the three-year-old taking a bit of a dive in the leather-wrapped driver's seat as he struggles to reach for the gas pedal. The amateur cameraman, who might just be the boy's father, takes things to the next level by playing the car-drifting-around-a-human game. And we can see the kid taking his eye off the "road" as he holds the steering wheel tight, to watch the camera.
Zoom in and you might even see the child appearing to imitate the bad boy look of the Bimmer's tuning hood.
While the clip's soundtrack includes the kind of music we've learned to associate with such videos, the frame at the end of the video shows the boy hanging around with a BMW crew, all with a Mickey Mouse twist.
However, teaching your son to drive outside public roads before the age of 17 (the legal driving age in Iraq) is one thing and handing him the keys to a car in an area surrounded by people is another thing.
While the boy's skill is admirable, we truly hope such adventures don't lead to a violent crash like the deadly accident of Georgian E34 BMW M5 street drifter Giorgi Tevzadze.
Since tire-melting shenanigans are the name of the game, perhaps sticking to offering the kid shotgun rides in drifting cars would be a better idea, at least until he's old enough to achieve a proper driving position.
The footage at the bottom of the page shows the kid behind the wheel of a BMW, with the young one putting on a spinning show. While it's obvious the child is more like hanging on to the car as the 5-Series starts to spin, he seems to catch the slide as the modded E34 starts sliding around. Should we call this boyhandling?
In fact, you can see the three-year-old taking a bit of a dive in the leather-wrapped driver's seat as he struggles to reach for the gas pedal. The amateur cameraman, who might just be the boy's father, takes things to the next level by playing the car-drifting-around-a-human game. And we can see the kid taking his eye off the "road" as he holds the steering wheel tight, to watch the camera.
Zoom in and you might even see the child appearing to imitate the bad boy look of the Bimmer's tuning hood.
While the clip's soundtrack includes the kind of music we've learned to associate with such videos, the frame at the end of the video shows the boy hanging around with a BMW crew, all with a Mickey Mouse twist.
However, teaching your son to drive outside public roads before the age of 17 (the legal driving age in Iraq) is one thing and handing him the keys to a car in an area surrounded by people is another thing.
While the boy's skill is admirable, we truly hope such adventures don't lead to a violent crash like the deadly accident of Georgian E34 BMW M5 street drifter Giorgi Tevzadze.
Since tire-melting shenanigans are the name of the game, perhaps sticking to offering the kid shotgun rides in drifting cars would be a better idea, at least until he's old enough to achieve a proper driving position.