Harakat Almawt (Death movements): power slides where one must keep the car going on forward in a straight line until the car stops by itself without fixing the steer or going off track.Akheyat: turning the car 180 degrees from side to another completing a full 360 by starting from the right to the left or opposite, kind of street sweeping.Some of the more popular tafheet maneuvers include: Tafheet practice and events occur with little or no concern for vehicle occupants, other drivers, or spectator safety, as a result there are many fatal accidents. The technique differs from high-speed cornering on tracks as cars drift sideways at high speed and recover with opposite lock. In the United Arab Emirates, tafheet are commonly seen on the highways of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, which also feature long straightaways. Tafheet driver practice and events are generally seen on the wide sectioned highways of Riyadh, Al-Qassim Province and, less notably, in other parts of Saudi Arabia. In the process, drivers often drive dangerously close to traffic, barriers, and spectators watching from the roadsides without any protection. Tafheet (تفحيط), or hajwalah (هجولة), (colloquially known as Arab drifting or Saudi drifting), is a type of street racing-like subculture believed to have started in the late 1970s in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, that involves driving cars that are generally non-modified or factory-setup (sometimes stolen or rented cars) at very high speeds, around 160–260 km/h (100–160 mph), across wide highways throwing the car left and right to mimic the appearance of drifting. JSTOR ( May 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī Honda Accord tafheet racing in Saudi Arabia. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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