Video: yes, trucks can drift too

Pikes Peak champ, Mike Ryan, has gone all Gymkhana and released this video of himself drifting his massive great big truck around a harbour in Long Beach. And post-Burma, we have newfound respect for trucks and people that drive trucks

And it ranks highly on the Top Gear scale of Quite Mad Things. There are enormo-burnouts. There are men with shoes that spark. There is a drifting Nissan 240SX. And there is a five-ton lorry with a methanol-injected turbocharged and supercharged Detroit Diesel engine doing jumps...

WARNING: Contains dangerous amounts of cheese and insufferable audio