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Vaughn Gittin Jr Smashes Bumper while Goodwood Drifting, Uses It as Wagging Tail

This year's Goodwood Festival of Speed was a mind-blowing celebration, and yet the organizers did get one thing wrong, namely the theme of the event. While the official motto of the 2016 edition was "Full Throttle - the Endless Pursuit of Power" this clearly should've been ditched for something focused on "Drifting".
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We are kidding you not, as this year's FoS has been nothing short of a sideways fest. From a Kamaz Dakar truck that barely fitted the tight Hillclimb course while being driven in a straight line to ex-Stig Ben Collins who spun in the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor (cut the man some slack, the track was soaking wet), we almost witnessed more slip angle shenanigans than "normal" runs - if we can call amazing sprints such as that of the Bugatti Chiron normal.

Given all the sideways action, it was almost impossible to compare the oddball drifting episodes mentioned above to the more conventional sideways episodes that included actual drift cars.

Nevertheless, we are now back for a little comparo and we're here to pit Mad Mike Whiddett's Hillclimb drift (here's the stunt, in case you missed it) to the sideways spectacle delivered by Vaughn Gittin Jr.

Each of the two Formula Drift drivers had a special move for us. While we'll remind you the Aussie slider, who drove a 1,000 HP Mazda RX-8, added a park-drifting move to his run, the American drifter came with a more... accidental approach.

To be more precise, Vaughn Gittin got his 900+ hp RTR Mustang so sideways (read: so far onto the grass), that he managed to tear apart the rear bumper at a certain point. For the following slides, the man used the apron as a wagging tail, but finally decided to snap it off the car, which he effortlessly did.

While the first clip below shows us the RTR Mustang stunts performed at Goodwood, the second video shows the driver explaining how the 71-degree steering angle magic is achieved.

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