Crowd-pleasing down under drift king ‘Mad’ Mike Whiddett will wow the Goodwood Festival of Speed with the most exotic sideways sensation ever seen: a McLaren P1 GTR, known as the MADMAC.

MadMac is a McLaren-based drift hypercar created by Mad Mike Whiddett in collaboration with Lazante. The heavily modified McLaren has a drift-specific chassis setup and is powered by a Mazda 20B ...

That man is Mad Mike Whiddett, and the machine he's piloting is a heavily modified Mazda RX-7 sponsored by the energy-rich crew from Red Bull and powered by a 750-horsepower quad-rotor engine.

We've seen the diminutive Mazda MX-5 Miata swallow plenty of big engines, but New Zealand drifting ace "Mad Mike" Whiddett is roaring into where-no-man-has-gone-before territory. Wanting to ...

It was a slow start for Mad Mike, but the team find themselves back in the championship hunt. With the constant rainfall making tough racing conditions, Mad Mike had some difficulties.

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Follow the global adventure of New Zealand drift racing superstar "Mad" Mike Whiddett. What started as a hobby has become a lifelong obsession for this charismatic Kiwi.

Follow a year in his life of 'Mad Mike' Whiddett as he faces the challenges of running a internationally competing motorsport team from here in NZ. Unfortunately The Mad Life isn't available to ...