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Mike Ryan drifting semi
Mike Ryan's drifting Freightliner - Click above to view watch the video after the jump

Mike Ryan has won a dozen Pikes Peak Hill Climbs in his Gulf-liveried Freightliner Cascadia, so it's no joke when we say this man has some serious talent. To raise his and the truck's profile a little bit, Ryan has decided to show off what he does when he's not storming mountains to stay sharp.

Aping Ken Block's Gymkhana series, Ryan haunts abandoned airstrips, looking for cones, old hangars and dirt roads on which to slide his truck around. In fact, Ryan has gone so far as to shoot this video at El Toro, the same Marine air base where Block filmed the first installment of his epic videos. Ryan's Freightliner packs 1,950 horsepower and more than 3,400 pound-feet of torque, so roasting the truck's handmade custom Michelin tires isn't a problem, even in a 10,000-pound Big Daddy Freightliner. Check out all the action in HD splendor after the jump. Top tip, Jason!


Gallery: Mike Ryan's Freightliner Cascadia Pikes Peak Special

Mike Ryan's Freightliner Cascadia Pikes Peak SpecialMike Ryan's Freightliner Cascadia Pikes Peak SpecialMike Ryan's Freightliner Cascadia Pikes Peak SpecialMike Ryan's Freightliner Cascadia Pikes Peak SpecialMike Ryan's Freightliner Cascadia Pikes Peak Special

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Spinning off shows from British television into American programs are all the rage these days. Just ask anyone who watches The Office, American Idol, The Shield or Life on Mars. But the one we're most excited about, of course, is the U.S. version of Top Gear. A long time coming, the pilot is set to air on the History Channel in about a month. And as the date approaches, details have been trickling in. The latest covers the test track that will be the show's playground.

Like its original British counterpart, the Top Gear test track has reportedly been converted from an old military air base: in this case the Marine Corp's former facility at El Toro in Orange County, California - the same location the NBC project was to use.

The track combines north/south and east/west runways from the former air field. Disused airport runways make great circuits, but there's one downside: no elevation changes, the likes of which make tracks like Spa and Laguna Seca the legends they are. The El Toro configuration ameliorates the situation, however, with a ten-foot drop and subsequent climb through an off-track loop on the right side of the map pictured above, giving it what most runway tracks - like Silverstone and the original Top Gear track in England - don't have.

[Source: Jalopnik]

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Nissan GT-R vs RWD Scion drift cars - Click above to watch video

Motor Trend hosted a summit of monsters that could be called "Where the Wild Things Are," gathering a Nissan GT-R and two back-wheel-driven Scion TC drift cars.

The question asked of the GT-R could have come from Autocar magazine's Ken Sutcliffe: "Will it drift?" After running through some standard MT performance runs, the cars were let loose around El Toro airfield to find the answer. You can click through the jump to see the video and find out...

[Source: Motor Trend]

Continue reading Video: Motor Trend pits the Nissan GT-R against the Scion TC RWD drifters

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Click above to view the videos after the jump

Ken Block solidified his place in the automotive master-race last November when he released his Gymkhana practice video onto an unsuspecting internet. 15 million views later, Block has created a dedicated microsite for the video and released some B-roll footage to show what went into his epic run. Both vids are posted below the fold and include several scenes left on the cutting room floor, along with a few painful interventions between his Subaru, a wall, a barrier and one incredibly trusting Segway pilot. Naturally, he's planning a sequel and you can count on us being there when Block attempts to one-up himself later this year. Oh, and that "I heart Segway Donuts" T-shirt on the right - you can pick one up for $20.

[Source: Gymkhana via 0-60]

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Click above to watch Ken Block, master hoon

There are a remarkable number of crap car videos floating around the intertubes, so it takes a special breed of driving deity to make something that catches our attention. Card-carrying member of the automotive master race, Ken Block, did just that by setting up an utterly insane Gymkhana course around El Toro and then proceeds to flog the life out of his Crawford-prepped Subaru Impreza STI through countless turns, drifts and 360s to create over four minutes of pure motoring bliss. The video speaks for itself, so hit the jump to check it out. And if you want to get inside the mind of the man, head over to 0-60 to read a brief interview of Block and his madcap run.

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Continue reading VIDEO: Ken Block Gymkhana practice, or one hoon to rule them all

VIDEO: Ken Block Gymkhana practice, or one hoon to rule them all originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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