{"id":86686,"date":"2009-12-17T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/17\/video-lamborghinis-valentino-balboni-drifting-a-lamborghini-va\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:40:00","slug":"video-lamborghinis-valentino-balboni-drifting-a-lamborghini-valentino-balboni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/86686","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Lamborghini’s Valentino Balboni drifting a Lamborghini Valentino Balboni"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All hail the drift king, Valentino Balboni – Click above to view the video after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nFate is a funny thing. It was our destiny to get a ride with Valentino Balboni in a Lamborghini LP550-2 Valentino Balboni<\/a> during rush hour traffic in Los Angeles. Lucky? Absolutely, though we may have crested 50 mph once… maybe. Would we have preferred to have been in the passenger seat of this here limeade green Valentino Balboni as Lamborghini’s legendary test driver literally hoons the rear tires off the car? Dear God, yes!!<\/em> <\/p>\n

The following video is actually a pretty good demonstration of the difference between RWD and AWD vehicles. You’ll see the Mr. Balboni flinging the LP550-2 around a corner, the rear sliding out a touch before he applies just a dab of oppo’ to get the V10-powered, rear-wheel drive mini-monster back in line. This is followed by an AWD LP560-4 which simply can’t break traction and sort of gracelessly shunts and shutters its way around the corner. Faster, no doubt — but not nearly as fun to watch. And then there are sparks and smoke and trust us you’ll love this. Watch the video, after the jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Source: YouTube<\/a> via Jalopnik<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Etc., Europe, Videos, Lamborghini All hail the drift king, Valentino Balboni – Click above to view the video after the jump Fate is a funny thing. It was our destiny to get a ride with Valentino Balboni in a Lamborghini LP550-2 Valentino Balboni during rush hour traffic in Los Angeles. Lucky? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}