Drift Focus // Michael Essa

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The American pilots an BMW 3 Series Coupe powered by an M5 V10 engine and it sounds like aural perfection. Check out the video below of Michael winning Ken Block’s Gymkhana Grid Burnout competition last year and make sure your speakers are turned up as high as they’ll go.

Essa has made a name for himself as a drifter, but he’s got a technical mind on him too, founding a motorsport and performance company in California. We’re mostly interested in his ability to take his amazing Beemer sideways though. You can see that in person at Yas Marina Circuit on February 25.

Cheers to the Octane Report for the video.