Watch a Nissan S13 Nail a 138-MPH Drift Entry Into Laguna Seca's Hairpin

There are some of us who can only manage a drift half the time, when it's wet, and nobody's looking. Then there are people like Formula D driver Matt Coffman, who can huck it sideways at 138 mph through a blind corner an eternity before the next hairpin—and keep it on track. All in front of a crowd, in case the pressure wasn't overwhelming enough.

Coffman achieved the mother of all look-at-mes just over a week ago, at Gridlife Laguna Seca. He was driving his Formula D car, a post-facelift first-gen Nissan 240SX (a kouki S13 if you're in the know) that MotorTrend reports is powered by a dirt modified's V8. Specifically, a 6.7-liter Roush Yates 410. It's an engine literally designed for spinning tires at length, which it'd have to be to survive what Coffman put it through at Laguna Seca.