﻿Unless you happen to be in the ultra-skilled 1% of drivers, you probably haven’t done much with
your trusty automobile. Those special few drivers out there however, can do literally unimaginable
things on 4 wheels - things you’ll probably never live to see with your own eyes. But don’t worry,
that’s why I’m here. This video is all about these incredible drivers.
Ready to take a look? Let’s get it on! There are people in this world that go out of
their way to make things difficult for themselves just to prove that those things can be done. And
I’m so glad these people exist because it means we get to watch stuff like this. There’s a reason you
can’t drive a truck with a car license, and that reason is that they’re incredibly difficult to
maneuver. You can’t just park them like a normal car, you can’t drive them too fast or they tip
over, there are all sorts of difficulties but you’d never know it watching these guys driving
their trucks. The skill and precision they bring to their truck driving is unreal. Most
of us would struggle to perform a perfect slalom or park that fast and efficiently in a small car,
it would be absolutely impossible for us to do what these amazing drivers can do!
It’s easy to think you can’t do something, but have you ever actually tried? Polish
driver Bartek Ostałowski lost both his arms in a motorcycle accident and thought his career behind
the wheel was over, until he met someone else with no arms who learned to drive with his feet.
That sounds like a pretty difficult skill to master, even for normal driving, but Ostałowski
saw this as his opportunity to get back into professional driving and set out to master this
unique skill. But he didn’t just settle for being a good driver - he decided to go into drifting.
This particularly difficult driving technique is only performed by the very best drivers,
and Ostałowski had enough faith to prove that he deserved to be among
them. And he was so right. In his specially modified Nissan Skyline,
which allows him to steer with his feet and change gears with his shoulder, he now sits
comfortably near the top of the leaderboard at professional drifting competitions.
In case you don’t know Ken Block, it’s safe to introduce him as one of the greatest drivers
on earth. He’s known for a lot of things, but his Gymkhana series is legendary now and I’m
sure you won’t find it difficult to see why. Driving at this speed, while always dangerous,
is one thing on a nice smooth race track. But in an industrial landscape like this, filled with
obstacles and uneven ground - not to mention how close it is to large bodies of water that
he gets unnervingly close to - this is a whole new level of driving. If you look closely, you’ll even
notice moments where his car is almost literally taking off and flying around the track. And as if
the landscape wasn’t hard enough to navigate, he makes things even harder for himself by bringing
in other huge vehicles to get in his way, like a truck hanging from a helicopter, or his near miss
passing in front of a moving train. It’s seriously dangerous but makes for a thrilling watch.
There are a lot of good drivers that can do side wheelies. Sure it’s always impressive,
but you’ve seen it before, right? Not like this. This wheelie is an insane stunt performed by
Finnish stunt driver Vesa Kivimäki who broke the Guinness World Record for Fastest Side Wheelie.
Yes, you heard right, the fastest ever. I don’t know much about this kind of driving,
but this seems like a dangerous stunt to perform even when you’re not driving at a breakneck speed.
You can actually tell just by looking at the video that he’s going incredibly fast, but it’s
probably still faster than you think. He reached white-knuckle speeds of 115.742 mph… on two
wheels! This is the kind of stunt that you won’t see bettered for many, many years to come.
In some countries, 16 year olds aren’t allowed to have a driver’s license. That little fact is meant
to put into perspective how impressive this stunt is. This is Chloe Chambers and she’s a 16 year old
kart racer. While most people her age have never been near a Porsche, she seems astonishingly calm
behind the wheel of this 718 Spyder, even while attempting to break the Guinness World Record
for the Fastest 50-Cone Slalom in a Production Vehicle. That’s roughly half a mile of expertly
swinging a car from left to right. The previous record of 48.114 seconds was matched by Chambers
on her second try, which was already something I’m sure most people weren’t expecting. So the result
of her third try really must’ve been a shock, but her cool exterior doesn’t suggest she ever
doubted she could do it, and in the end she beat the record with a time of 47.45 seconds!
Parallel parking is probably the last thing you attempted when you were learning to drive and
there’s a good reason for that: it’s actually really difficult. So you can be certain that
Han Yue’s world record will impress anyone who’s ever driven a car. He holds the Guinness World
Record for the Tightest Parallel Park - and it’s even more interesting than you might think. His
astounding record is for parallel parking his Mini in a space which was only 3.15 inches bigger
than his car. And yes, he did park it between two other cars. But that’s impossible you’re probably
thinking. For us regular people, it probably is impossible. But it’s not impossible if you can
power drift. Han Yue has held this record before, but along came another driver who beat it - and
experts said that the record this driver set couldn’t be beaten. So if we can learn
anything from watching this amazing stunt, it’s that nothing’s impossible.
Some people don’t care about what is and isn’t possible - they set their mind to something
and just do it. That’s how you get world records like this one. Well, two records actually. Johan
Schwartz took his BMW M5 out to attempt the Guinness World Record for longest vehicle drift,
and he kept going for 8 hours! The record is frankly staggering: an incredible 232.5 mile
drift. But you’ve probably realised that a time like that isn’t possible because the car would run
out of fuel. That’s where the second record comes in. To keep the car going for the longest drift,
they used this unique and genius refuelling system based on the refuelling technology of
airplanes that required a second car. It was incredibly risky of course, with potential
explosions and all kinds of other dangers being a worry, but it did mean that they could also break
the record for longest twin vehicle drift as they drifted 49.25 miles next to each other in an hour.
Now that’s how you break a record in style. There are some things that can only happen in
movies, you know, with the help of all those fancy special effects. That was definitely true
of this staggering stunt, until Jaguar decided to do it anyway. You’re about to witness stunt
driver Terry Grant set the world record for the Largest Loop the Loop in a Car with a Jaguar
F-Pace. The loop itself is a vertigo-inducing 65 foot high, 360 degree circle. This stunt is
even more impressive than it seems - and that’s really saying a lot: it required special training
from Grant so his body could handle the 6.5 Gs it would be subjected to when completing
the loop. That’s more severe than the force experienced in a space shuttle. I get it,
the more you know about it, the more impossible it seems. So hold your breath and just watch...
A lot of people aren’t great drivers in traffic. Now imagine driving in traffic,
but in reverse and at speed. Let’s face it, most people won’t make it more than a few feet before
they bump into something, even if they were going slowly, so watching this man driving all over the
traffic-rich streets of India in his Fiat set to reverse is really something that makes most people
do a double take. I’d have no problem believing the footage was fake, but surprisingly it’s not.
He just likes driving this way ever since he had car troubles one day and was forced to drive
home in reverse. I guess if you discover a hidden talent like reverse driving, there’s no reason not
to pursue it, although most of us would rightfully be too scared to try. Now he’s modified his car to
have 4 reverse gears and only one forward gear so he can reach speeds of 80 miles per hour in
reverse! Now that’s what I call a skill. You can tell this stunt was beyond challenging
because it started with a seriously difficult task before it even began. Range Rover wanted
to drive its Sport up the famous Heaven’s Gate steps in China, but just to get there,
they needed to traverse one of the most dangerous and deadly roads on Earth. Once they’d done that,
then the challenge started. There aren’t many drivers alive who can drive an SUV up steps, never
mind the 999 steps Range Rover were attempting to climb. So they got Ho-Pin Tung to do it. And
they sure chose the right man. Despite being a former Formula E and Formula 1 driver, he later
said this stunt was one of the most difficult challenges he’d ever faced. That’s not surprising
to those of us watching a car climb stairs with a 45 degree incline. It seems impossible to us,
but somehow they did it - and we’re glad they did, because it really is breathtaking to watch.