We fully acknowledge this is going to be too weird for many. It's too weird for us, and we sometimes spend hours a day watching unlikely drift videos when we're supposed to be working.
Although, in this instance, we're blaming Google's autocomplete function. Apparently this is, by itself, responsible for some measurable percentage of internet traffic as people click on something they didn't expect to see. And so it proved when we entered 'drifting' and Google suggested 'train.'
How could you not click on that?
Full-Throttle Multi-Track Dorifto!
The resulting video is spectacular. Somebody has spent a serious amount of time designing a drift track in a train simulator and then produced a decent pastiche of an old-school Japanese drifting vid. Complete not only with some comical apex furniture, but also a soundtrack with alternate subtitled lyrics about drifting a train.
The train in question? We thought it was an InterCity 125, but according to the fount of all knowledge that is Wikipedia we should actually call it an HST power car. The real one's got 2,250hp suggesting that, with steel wheels switched for part-worn tyres and on a suitably greasy surface, it might be able to power itself sideways in real life.
Applying opposite lock might be a problem, though.
See the original video here.