Pusey. The French Drift Championship continues in Pusey: a ballet of cars sliding

Opened to let the engine heat escape, the door of the BMW E46 slams. The flag falls. The beast is unleashed on the Vallée circuit in Pusey, followed like its shadow by another machine developing 800 horsepower in a joyful din mixing squealing tires and bursts of accelerator. Until this Sunday, May 11, the French drift championship is livening up the karting track. "It's frankly a beautiful track , quite technical all the same," admits Mathias Locatelli, the number 1 in this very serious discipline organized by the French Motorsport Federation (FFSA). With his Nissan S15, Mathias Locatelli is the favorite in a very coded event.

"We're the only motorsport where we don't race against the clock. Drifting is a real competition with a sense of spectacle," he says. Drivers have to make calls, and...

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