Is This the Bravest or Dumbest Photographer You've Ever Seen?

Drift racing is a motorsport in which the drivers are forced to skid the rear end their car sideways to make a turn. You may have actually drifted yourself, inadvertently, during wet road conditions. It was scary though, right?

Suffice to say, being a drift racing spectator in Poland looks dangerous too, but even more so for a photographer who was hoping to capture the oncoming action and stepped a touch too far onto the track.

At the DMP Touge Drift Karpacz event at the Polish Drift Championship, the vehicles can be seen drifting down the course and right toward a photographer who had hopped the meager barrier separating onlookers and the speeding cars.

Jalopnik points to a picture by driver Paul Trela, who had his Go Pro camera running and captured a head on shot of what he saw as he was drifting around the turn.

One his Facebook page, Trela wrote of the incident (translated via Google translate):

"Here's how irresponsible people can be! This is the view from my go pro  in training stint with the loaves. If not for hand in good time that the engine was not my biggest problem today. Embarrassing lack of imagination!"

There is even video of the photographer. You can see him in this clip -- barely -- between the two cars around 0:08 and from a different angle more clearly later in the footage. He seems pretty calm with what he's doing though, standing up and walking off the track after the vehicles pass:

Here's a shot of the scene shot from higher up:

This story has been updated since it's original posting.