Ford Mustang drifts lap of the Nordschleife

What's it like drifting a 900hp Mustang around the 'ring? Funny you should ask...

Professional drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr has become the first person to drift a whole lap of the Nordschleife in his Ford Mustang RTR which, well, makes for a very different kind of Nurburgring record video...

Gittin uses his purpose-built ‘Stang in the Formula Drift series in the US, so it has a race-tuned version of Ford’s 5.0-litre V8 to produce up to 900hp. The run at the 'ring was considerably longer than the average drift stint, meaning the motor’s appetite for rubber required two stops for new tyres.

As such, it’d be hard to constitute this attempt as a true ‘lap’ – but we can certainly cut Gittin some slack. Threading a car along the winding ribbon of asphalt that makes up the Nordschleife is hard enough when you’re trying to keep things tidy, let alone when you’re navigating it with yaw angles so great that your view ahead is through the side window.

Little wonder the run features much grass cutting and even the death of a drone by stoning...