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EURO FIGHTER

Before we kick off, let me ask you one question: if opportunity came knocking at your door, would you be ready to seize it?

One person we don’t need to ask this question of is ‘Mad Mike’ Whiddett, the biggest name in drifting on the planet, because when that door knock was made, he took it by the balls and built the Lamborghini you see before you.

For Mike, the idea of building a supercar that was driftcapable for the Goodwood Festival of Speed (FOS) was something that he’d been toying with to the point at which he actually had renders and a proposal of what it would look like, and what it would take to build. Actually turning those renders into reality, was a whole’nother thing. It wasn’t until a chance meeting during the FOS ball that everything changed.

“Last year at the ball, out of 180 tables, I was sat on table two, which was incredible. Lord March was seated next to me and in our discussions he asked what I was planning to build for next year as the cars were getting wilder every year, and he didn’t know how I’d top the Gen 7.3 MADBUL I had there. I told him I wanted to build a drift supercar and reveal

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