Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson Talks Keiichi Tsuchiya (The DriftKing), The Infamous Midnight Club & R32

[Music] [Applause] [Music] well if you drove like that on the public roads you deserve to be called a maniac but they do drive like that on the public roads every Saturday night the intestine Road up Mount subba comes alive to the sound of torching rubber kids hundreds of them take their cars up there to practice the art of drifting seeing how long they can hold the car in an over steer slide this is irresponsible they are Joy Riders but at least they're doing something a little more enterprising than reversing into a branch of Dixons naturally though as the road is open and there are people coming the other way accidents do happen rather a [Music] lot now just in case you were thinking of trying this at home this is a graphic demonstration of what can go wrong how did you manage to do this I came around the corner too quickly it was excessive speed and I skidded and ended up on the bank well it's a rotten bit of luck and it was a 20 first birthday present from his mother drifting has now become so popular that the sport has legitimized itself with organized events at racetracks speed is unimportant but style is everything and you're judged in much the same way as tville and Dean by the man who started it all the when I was racing everybody knew that I would win so to stop people being bored and fed up with the same old thing I started drifting the car through the corners much more than the other drivers to keep people interested and it improve the popularity of the [Applause] sport he still does spectacular demonstration runs today though he handicaps himself by wearing a pair of marigolds and driving a standard Road car and standard road cars as you can see are no good many years ago the racers were only interested in hard Springs in the last two to three years the drivers have become more interested in the suspension setups for these events which are very very popular in Japan these days if you look at the top Races they now have racing car standard suspension so how mad do you have to be to do this what sort of people are we talking about [Applause] here mostly young guys who love cars and driving they want to be racing drivers but they don't have the money so have you decided on a winner today hi well while he went off to polish The Laurels the guys went out for some sideways Shenanigans this time they were all forced to wear marigolds but like good racing drivers they blamed their cars they should have been using one of these though at £50,000 the nisson Skyline GTR is too expensive for The Drifters it's within easy reach though of the boys in the Midnight Club to join your car must be capable of at least 160 mph and what the members do is meet up at a service station late at night and race down the Tokyo to Yokohama Expressway the Porsche 9911 some of which can and do do 200 mph has been the boss for years but today most people use the skyline so what is this car then well the 2.6 L 6-cylinder engine has two ceramic turbochargers which can be tuned to give as much power as your internal organs can handle I hear 850 horsepower is as high as you can go but the strange thing is the chassis could take more the chassis could take a lot more thanks to the fitment of several computers Each of which makes a cray look like a golf ball typewriter the skyline's four-wheel drive system takes the laws of physics and wipes its shoes on them its staggering ability to get round corners has made it Japan's best ever race car and even on the road you'd have to say it's nothing short of physically ironic the Skyline GTR makes the Porsche 959 look like it came out of the The Design Studios of Freddy Flintstone and on a racetrack the skyline would be faster than a Ferrari 355 in a battle between Japanese techno Wizardry and Italian design flare Japan would win the skyline and I'm not joking is one of the best cars I have ever driven

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Length: 5min 19sec (319 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 15 2013