Video: BMW M5 Taxi Launch, Powerslides and Revs on Track

[M ETT]

Originally Posted by Dackelone

I think I prefer Sabine as my Taxi driver.

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[335dM]

Not so great driving skills. He's good but not great!

[Phatcat]

Originally Posted by 04S

Why was he doing one handed power slides ? Doesn't make any sense to me.

Otherwise pretty impressive, especially from a pre-LCI car.

Yeah it's an old thread, but some of you guys are reading too much into it. It's a BMW taxi at performance school which means only the instructors can drive it. They obviously know what they are doing and may sometimes not necessarily doing it the "correct" way.

When I was at BMW Korea performance school, the instructor during skid pad drift demonstration would just spin the steering wheel quickly and let go for counter steer and then catch the the steering wheel again to hold the slide. He told us not to do that because it's not the right way but once you get good enough, you could do it.

Here is a youtube video where Sebastian Vettel give a journalist a ride in a Ferrari also doing one handed power slide.

Maybe they all doing it to impress the passengers.

[josec70]

Great Vid!