Video: is this the craziest roundabout in the world?

For our international readers, allow us to quickly fill you in on some British geography. In the south-west of the bit of green in the sea that we call England, is a town called Swindon. Not much happens in Swindon. Actually, the two biggest draws to this large town are a retail outlet and a special roundabout. Yes, really. A roundabout.

It’s called the Magic Roundabout (this isn’t a joke) and is the mothership of continuously flowing junctions. It actually consists of five mini-roundabouts that orbit around a sixth central, anti-clockwise roundabout. If you look at it on a street sign it looks like some crazy traffic regulating ninja star. And, for anyone who has ever experimented with a rear wheel drive car on a roundabout, it looks pretty inviting. 

As it did to Mad Mike, one of the world’s supreme dorifto kingu and someone who could do it justice. 

At 4am Mike got out of bed, had a stretch and hopped into his racing overalls. Outside there just so happened to be his 800-odd bhp Mazda RX-8 quad-rotar drift car. With six empty roundabouts to play with, and seemingly endless transition options, he put his foot to the floor, grabbed his hydraulic drift stick and got to work. You can see his smoky results above.

Note: this was obviously performed on a closed road, so don’t try it yourself.

Video: Red Bull