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Bravo! Bravo!!! +10 for mucho traffic!

I wanted to do that with the 911 I took for a test drive a few weeks back, but wasn't confident enough in the drifting skillz to take on the challenge. Plus, it wasn't wet, which was definitely to their advantage here.

It's not safe to be a tire in Scandinavia.

awesome!!!

What I find most amazing is the relative lack of lock the driver had dialed in.

Psh, yer supposed to have one hand out the window giving the \m/ whilst drifting. Noobs.

Pete Burns will be so proud of these boys..."You spin me round, round baby round, round, like a record baby round round round round".

America's roundabout gap must not be allowed to stand.

Could the drive be a ringer? Maybe a "between seasons" rally car racer? Otherwise, that's a seriously impressive power slide--wet or not.

-100 pts for lack of Scandanavian Death Metal

+1000 for usage of Audi Wagon

@JoeKing: One of the Solberg brothers on vacation?

+ all of the points available

@tenbeers: but -1 for no \m/

Wow! What a talented driver! +2000 Points for doing it in the rain, and with traffic!

Thats the hooniest hoon I've seen in a long time! Jalop knows how to put a grin on my face

Tiff Needell, is that you?

And the best part? They didn't even disrupt traffic!

-1 for not having a ToteMotel on the back of that wagon.

Oh my.

That Audi seems so balanced.
Really impressive use of the go pedal and no crazy sawing back and forth on the wheel either.

One can only conclude that Olaf knows his stuff.

hey look kids there's Big Ben, Parliament!

brilliant and inspirational.

Man this is pretty old.

Makes me proud to be Norwegian. Even more so since if the police caught him he would face a fine of up to $10,000, a month in jail and loss of licence forever

I for one welcome our Viking drifter overlords!

-100, no beer swiggin' New Jersey-ers.

+1000 for a wagon, and +100 to the folks in traffic who drive around the round-about with the Rowdy-Audi-Hoons like that's normal.

Sideways indeed!

This guy has to be a ringer.

That's some awesome driving, but am I the only one concerned with the other traffic? Shouldn't they have picked a slightly quieter roundabout?

Was the passenger mooning the cops at the same time? No? I'm sorry - can't award maximum points today.

@Tomsk: Why not!? The car control was incredible, and it's not as though there aren't a number of WRC guys in that part of the world...

Yellow windshield writing suggests that this car was newly purchased and/or just a test drive. Awesome. Now I want an Audi wagon.

@Nurburgringer: excellent quote...

Why do I feel the need to have some snouty ballet music in the background?

very very very old video

one word.... smooooooth.

Seriously needs death metal, but otherwise beautiful and flawless. I'm just not sure whether to be happy or disappointed that there was no crash.

@kolorfast: I am thinking that Unanimated's Life Demise would fit nicely...

Since we drive on snow half the year we really learn to conroll our drifting.. We have drifted cars for waaay longer than those japaneese guys' In norway we call it breisladd (broad skid)...

@mwood10: Nope, me too. Maybe I'm getting old, but I would find this much more entertaining if there weren't so many cars all around. I've seen this video a bunch of times, and it gets more annoying with every viewing. I just picture my parents driving into that roundabout not knowing what the fuck to do and getting clipped.

That was beautiful.

@TexanIdiot25:
lmao, that's what i was thinking. All the regular traffic just passing right through as if nothing unusual was happening...

@jaimster: Very, very ban-hammer worthy comment.

Höön of the Day

I can't get over how controlled and, well, relaxed that is!

America needs more roundabouts.

Oh, wait, roundabouts require thought and planning to use...nevermind.

After I bought a new GL1800 in '01, I took it to the sole roundabout in town and rode it until I was comfy dragging large surface areas attached by metal, on the ground. It's nice to have a wife who understands why you don't want her on the machine as a passenger until you know what it will do at the limit... It's also nice she doesn't freak out when, at mile 53, there are large scrape marks on the lower surfaces.

@Ben Wojdyla: agreed. Then again what do i know?
I still find time to listen to flight of the choncords and whatch dramatic squirrel while drinking TAB.

If only I had a video camera with me when I unintentionally drifted my grandmother-in-law's A6 quattro wagon in the dead of winter in Wisconsin with her in the car with me. She said "Wheeeeee!!!"

Hoorgy noorgy moorgy fishee! Und de gas und de hand-e-brake und the stooring wheeel und de Drift! Mork-mork-mork!

Seriously, this is the sexage. Drifting always gives me the stiffy, but damn! the Swedish (well, Norwegian) chef knows how to cook up a fresh batch of hot salty nutsack. I'd have paid to watch this guy in action. Norwegian hoons unite!

@cubensis, jaimster: B&, if I had my choice. Nobody cares how good you are at the internet. Age does not diminish the awesomeness of this video and the talent displayed therein.

@clank-o-tron: Agree. What is the point of saying "Oh, this is old." Then don't watch. If you read the comments you'd see we hadn't run across it. Oh, wait. You're trying to say you are so cool because you have seen everything on the webs. Good. Then you don't have to come back here.

Clearly he has the right of way.

This must be yoga for petrolheads. I feel like I'm one with the Audi.

Way to look through towards the exit of the corner! Eyes Up.

Sweet piece of drifting. I wonder if the road was more than just wet, maybe some freezing rain as well. That just seemed to quiet and smokeless.

Is that the same cul-de-sack as the powered-up Powerwheels hoonage where the kid almost cracked his head?

those quattros are pretty easy to manage in circular drifts like that, wherever you turn, is wherever it goes which is not always the case w/ many cars. Plus, I bet you his tires are incredibly worn. Just my 4 cents (yea bet you only thought i had 2 didn't yuh)

I am hearing a polite elderly duffer as I watch this:

"Pardon me. May I play through...?"

I like how the Volvo at -1:00 doesn't even skip a beat and enters the circle without that zombie-driver "huh?" stop-and-lurch.

Also, EXCELLENT work at -0:34 to keep it going. Three cheers!

Fawking brilliant! Even with the traffic, it seemed so low drama that I half expected to hear "Sailing" by Christopher Cross as the soundtrack (when we all know that some quality Norwegian Death Metal would've been the piece de resistance. I knew there was a reason I always loved those older Audi 200s.

@Corvette_Thunder: On further review, it sounds like they had their own death metal going on the onboard portion. Too bad they didn't overlay it over the whole thing when they were editing.
Ah, well, they probably didn't want to make people have hoongasms while watching it at work.

@iamhoff: Agreed. Almost any Audi introduced prior to the OG A4 sets my hear aflutter.

@Ben Wojdyla: Thank you!! Those are among the worst of the useless/annoying comments in all of blogdom.

(roll of eyes) "oh, this is so old, I was watching this when I was a stunningly attired fetus smoking my Galoises and wearing the Vitton that we've allll outgrown by now, right?! We should've left it with the afterbirth to be disposed of!" (withering sigh...)

Cubensis and Jameister, Get off it and get a life, chumps.. in fact, yours is the oldest of the conceits, so if you're annoyed by outdated things, that's the first that should go.

Beautiful drifts, I love how the drivers of other cars doesn't seem to be the least bit bothered by it, like it's only normal to see wagons drifting around roundabouts every day.

that's an UrS6 Avant, not a 100. It has a 2.L 20v I5 Turbo with 227bhp and a six-speed - and it's modified too, from the look of it. A 100 wagon can't get sidways... it can't even get out of it's own way :-P

@Dr. Spaceman:

I have a roundabout where I live in California. Not quite as big but still a handy hoonage tool.

What a lovely country. No one even honked or anything at him.

i can't get left...can't get left.

@cubens