Toyota 86-X blitzes Millbrook: Time for Coffee?

An Alpine route, a 900hp drift car and a camera drone. Break time, boss...

Toyota UK doesn't proffer much of a reason for this tyre-shredding exercise - and frankly, who needs one? We're simple folk, and the idea putting a 900hp GT-86 and its former drift world champion keeper on the hill route at Millbrook would've been motivation enough for us to break the video camera out, too.

The hand in question is Fredric Aasbo, who took the Formula D Pro title in 2015. That was aboard a Scion tC . Now the Norwegian is back in Europe, competing in the Scandinavian-based Gatebil season with the same Icom Toyota 86-X seen tearing up Bedfordshire's most famous closed road.

The location makes the feat doubly impressive: not only is the hill route, well, very hilly, it also features a distinct and perilous lack of run-off - some of it where the road's camber is of the less than helpful sort. A couple of these corners don't feature on the video - and neither does the proving ground's infamous jump - but as we were at Millbrook not long after Aasbo's visit, we can tell you from firsthand experience that the strips of rubber left behind pay tribute to the seamless transition work going on here.

So kudos Mr Aasbo - and thank you, Toyota: a coffee break well earned.