---
title: "Watch a 20,000-lb. Dakar Truck Drifting at Goodwood"
description: "Turn Mad Mike Whiddett loose, and he'll put anything sideways."
date: "2016-06-25"
modified: "2016-06-25"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/4154/watch-a-20-000-lb-dakar-truck-drifting-at-goodwood"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Trucks"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Dakar"
  - "Drifting"
  - "Goodwood"
  - "Mad Mike Whiddett"
  - "trucks"
---

# Watch a 20,000-lb. Dakar Truck Drifting at Goodwood

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In the video below, there are three elements at work.

The first is [Mad Mike Whiddett](<https://www.formulad.com/drivers/mike-whiddett>). He’s a Kiwi drifting demigod, the wheelman behind the [infamous ](<https://www.redbull.com/nz/en/motorsports/stories/1331668209193/mad-mike-building-the-ultimate-drift-machine>)[RADBULL](<https://www.redbull.com/nz/en/motorsports/stories/1331668209193/mad-mike-building-the-ultimate-drift-machine>), an MX-5 Miata with a quad-rotor, twin-turbo Wankel engine. But, really, Mike doesn’t care what he’s driving. He just likes using the passenger window as a windshield.

The second is a Kamaz truck. You know, those 20,000-pound rigs they run at the Dakar Rally. They're enormous, Russian-built diesel trucks with 16-liter engines, happiest when pounding like the hammers of hell across some barren landscape.

The third is Goodwood Festival of Speed. That’s the hillclimb throwdown in Lord March’s driveway. It’s a fanciful motoring event, a high-speed tea party that, were it any more British, would require a pith helmet as a matter of dress code.

So, of course, Mad Mike gets in this big ol’ truck, and decides he’s going to have a go sideways through the first couple of corners at Goodwood. It’s a short clip, but a hilarious and surreal one. Happy Friday, kids. Hoon on.

https://youtube.com/embed/1zHVVBZSjAM

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