The world of drifting races is rising and there are more and more drivers and competitors in the game. So the stakes go higher and all the teams are spending money on their cars in order to have the most powerful and fastest car on the track.
Some models of cars are cheaper and easy to be modified and tuned and for some it is harder. But drivers and team members claim that the Mercedes is one of the most critical car to be tuned and prepared for drift racing.
This is because most of the Mercedes models are heavy cars and there are too much things of the interior of the car that are not meant to be used during the race and they are making the car heavier. So there is a selection which things will be kept inside the car and which will be thrown in the garbage.
When the car is made lighter, we come to the engine and this specific Mercedes E-Coupe is equipped with a V8 style engine that generates maximum of 500 HP and this is more than enough to make the car drift like no other and finish first in the race. See the German beast in action in the video bellow.
The car in the video is a mercedes benz e classe with a bmw e92 m3 v8 engine. It has the same engine and running gear as the bmw m3 from the same team at the end of the video. I was 1 of the officials at the track that day 🙂
Hey that’s awesome Yorick, seeing this car in person must be a great experience. Thanks for the additional info about it 🙂