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Heart stopping moment teenager DRIFTS £100k car along soaking mountain road in incredible video
MOST 18 year-olds are still getting to grips with parallel parking, but some are clearly more advanced.
This one seems pretty confident sliding a £100,000 motor along a rain-soaked mountain road at terrifying speeds.
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But before you pick up the phone to the police, he has a good excuse.
His name is Conor Shanahan and he's a professional drifter working with Red Bull.
He started drifting cars when he was just nine years old and was winning competitions by the age of 14.
Now he's gearing up to compete in his biggest challenge to date - the 2022 Drift Masters European Championships.
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The car he's driving is a Toyota GT86 sports car, but not the same one you can buy down at your local Toyota dealer.
It's had everything upgraded: its tyres, suspension, brakes, steering, engine and gearbox are custom built to withstand the high-speed sideways driving.
As standard, the Toyota GT86 comes with 197bhp, but this Frankenstein drift machine comes with 800bhp.
In typically soggy Irish weather, Conor had to guide this creation along a formidable mountain pass called Moll's Gap as part of testing before the European Championships.
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But Conor's talent isn't entirely surprising. For starters quite a few top drifters already come from Ireland.
Then there's the fact that Conor's brother Jack is back-to-back British drift champion, his father is a successful rally driver and his mother the only Irish woman to win a national Autoglass rally championship.
Talk about keeping it in the family.
Shanahan is pegged to become Ireland and Europe’s next drift champion at the upcoming 2022 DMEC.
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The Mallow man became the youngest driver to win European, British and Irish professional drift events, making his debut in the DMEC in 2018, sensationally beating fellow Irishman, DMEC and Irish National champion, James Deane, at the Polish round of the championship.