Awesome Driving

Rally co-drivers have a hard enough job keeping their drivers on the road, so we have to hand it to Mark Allaeys for going beyond the call in 1991 when he had to manually control the broken throttle on driver Dominique de Muynck’s Alfa.

For the latest in his blockbuster Gymkhana series, Ken Block partnered up with EA’s Need for Speed: Rivals, burning his 650hp Ford Fiesta ST RX43 through a ridiculous obstacle course. The Segway donuts are totally off the hook.

Pro-X driver Kata Karenina doesn’t seem the least bit worried that the inside of her 4×4 has filled up with muddy water, as she hits an impasse in the Russia Rainforest Challenge. She says: “I’m up to my ears in sh*t, but I’m happy.”

Speed bump is where you speed, no? That sure seems to be the case with the drivers whizzing over this nasty bump in Russia. It’s too bad the guys who posted it couldn’t use video editing software without that ridiculous watermark.

A group of Honda Civic street racers in Philly are spotted by a police helicopter, and high-tail it out of there. Not only did they capture their escape on video, they had the balls to post the whole thing on YouTube.

The 33 day-long rally from Peking to Paris can finish off even the most rugged of vehicles. But this 1958 Mercedes-Benz Model 219 Ponton handled the challenge like a champ. The classic car really is built like a tank.

Shpilli Villi’s pimped out Nissan takes on the 1001HP king of speed, beating it handily off the line and through the 1/4 mile thanks to its AWD drivetrain, and coming in neck and neck in the mile. Though the Bugatti will soon pull away.

BuzzFeed compiles a list of some of the most treacherous and challenging roads on the planet, including one in Bolivia, appropriately nicknamed “Death Road.” Though this one in Peru looks a just a little scary too.

The guys from Dude Perfect continue to hone their ball-throwing skills on a some moving targets, a trio of Fiat 500 Abarths, as their drivers pull off some trickery of their own.

On the latest episode of Motor Trend’s J-Turn, host Jessi Lang learns how to ram blockades, escape dangerous situations, take the wheel from a dead driver, and take out other cars at the Bondurant School of High Perf. Driving.

A thrilling, seat-of-your-pants montage, from various POV scenes of car chases, edited by Zach Prewitt, and accentuated perfectly by Hans Zimmer’s Mombasa from the Inception soundtrack. Do pod racers really count as cars?

Red Bull scored the drive of a lifetime, closing off New Zealand’s hairpin-filled Crown Range highway so driver “Mad Mike” Whiddett could burn it up with his 750hp Mazda RX7 as a helicopter captured his hooning from above.

GoPro sent rally racer Ken Block to a snowy course in Russia armed with a barrage of its HD Hero2 cameras to watch him do what he does best. The song is Android Porn by Kraddy.

Driver Roman Rusinov powers the 540hp AWD Nissan GT-R to a staggering speed of 182.8mph in the car known as “Godzilla” across the icy surface of Siberia’s frozen Lake Baikal, breaking the previous Russian ice-driving record.

The crew from XCAR heads to I-Way World to ride in the most immersive driving simulators we’ve ever seen, with cars that move on hydraulics and surround drivers with screens. (Thanks Tom!)

CNN affiliate KIRO performed a driving test of pot smokers, demonstrating not-so-scientific evidence that it takes at least 4 or more times current legal limits before driving abilities are impaired.

While it’s not quite as impressive as dogs that can drive full size cars, at least we know that Rogue the cattle dog won’t be causing any traffic jams with his ride. Though he does know how to honk the horn.

For a brief moment, we were convinced this POV video was shot from a truck’s dashcam, but the unmistakeable sound of the rotor quickly reveals that we’re flying inside of a helicopter.

We’re pretty sure this isn’t the safest way to take kids to school, but Nitro Circus’ drifting, off-road, open-air, tire-burning, mud-covered school bus looks like a pretty awesome ride. (Thanks Dallin!)

We’re pretty sure these yellow things are bails of cotton, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is the skill with which the driver manages to load, unload, turn them sideways and reload them.

Ken Block returns for the latest installment of his mad-hooning video series for DC Shoes. Ken amps up the stunts and difficulty level as he takes to the iconic and punishing streets of San Francisco.

As if parallel parking wasn’t difficult enough, watch as Han Yue crams a Mini in-between two others leaving a space just 5.91 inches longer than the car in one fell swoop, blowing away this guy’s record.

Test footage of the European Commission’s Safe Road Trains for the Environment (SARTRE). It involves a platoon of cars running without help from human drivers, save for the lead vehicle.