Drifting with Mad Mike: Reading Warriors

By David Riley

Drifting with Mad Mike is the spectacular story of how a young Kiwi driver achieved his dream of competing in one of the toughest drifting leagues in the world … Formula Drift! Learn how passion and determination helped Mike become one of the best drifters in the world, and how it can help you achieve your dreams too. "I've shown what you can do with a dream if you work for it." Mad Mike Whiddett.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reading Warrior
• Release date: Oct 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9780473445898

Book preview

THE MAD LIFE

IT’S DECEMBER 2016 and the sun is setting on a warm evening in downtown Auckland.

A giant outdoor theatre screen is set up at the waterfront. Excited fans have come to watch a film about one of New Zealand’s greatest ever motorsport drivers.

Just as the film is about to start, the crowd hear the scream of a car engine.

Whoa, that sounds like the real thing, a fan says.

"It is the real thing, says another. Look!"

A sleek, 208 turbo, Rotary-powered, Mazda RX8, rockets past, drifts round two tight corners and comes to a smoking stop next to the screen.

The driver leaps from the car and takes a seat in the stands.

Who is he?

Mad Mike – one of the best drifters in the world – that’s who!

WIPE OUT

MIKE MAD MIKE WHIDDETT was born on January 10, 1981. As a child he lived with his mum, in East Auckland.

Like lots of children, Mike owned a three wheel tricycle when he was little. Most children rode their bikes on the footpath. Not Mike. That was boring!  He’d rather race down steep hills or make ramps to jump over.

He was only three when he did his first wipe out – skidding off the driveway and landing face down on his front lawn.  If only you could ride your bike in a safe way, son, his mum said, as she wiped dirt and grass