Many writers like to wax poetic about drifting. They liken it to driving art: it’s completely unnecessary, but there is a certain skill to it that not everybody has, and you can’t deny the beauty of that skill when you see it in person. Me, I’m not fooled: All drifting has been is the pinnacle of aggressive driving turned into something more. By it’s nature, it’s violent: rip gears, lock brakes, slam the throttle to the floor and hope that the tie rod ends hold up until you either shred the rear rubber off with extreme prejudice or your ride goes out of control and body damage results…which happens more often than not. Done poorly, and you’ll hear crunching sheetmetal. Done right, and you have triple-digit drifts that look stupidly simple. Vaughn Gittin, Jr. is one of those skilled wheelmen who make the art of the slide look like child’s play. Simply put, if you put him into a Mustang, fun things occur. We’ve seen his work in person in the drift pit at SEMA before, and car control is certainly a strong suit of his…you can tell by the throngs of people who line up around the course just to watch him. But spinning tires in a little pen in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center is one thing. Watching him use one of his RTR Mustang drift cars to stripe a good section of Road America at speed? That’s something else altogether.