If you’re not satiated at the end of this post, go on youtube and type in “Saudi Arabia Drift mix”. What you’ll see is the new Saudi Arabian craze: the Saudi Drifting.
Localy called “Tafheet” (تفحيط), this popular street sport involves trying to drift a car, passing other cars on the freeway at terrifying speed (some videos bellow shows up to 200 Km/h ‘120 mph). This modern version of an ancient practice of camel sliding in the desert is definitely not the safest practice ever, and surely shows a lot of boredom for generation of young bedouins massively underemployed.
I hardly recommand the New York Times article about it and/or this selection of videos:
