The guys name is Russ Swift. This is from his official website:

"Russ Swift breaks his own Guinness World Record AGAIN Featured on BBC Record Breakers and Record Breakers Gold. In 1995 Russ Swift established a world record for "parallel parking". By using a hand-brake-turn the car was parked in a space between two other cars which was only 40cm longer than the car itself. Time taken was under 3 seconds. Russ first used this manoeuvre in the award winning Montego "Car Park" commercial in 1988. On 29th September 1998 Russ broke this record by parking in a space 35cm longer than the car using a Mini. The record was filmed for BBC Linfords (Christie) Record Breakers. On 17 April 1999 Russ again broke this record by parking in a space 34cm longer than the car again using a Mini Cooper. This record was filmed for Guinness World Records - A programme shown by London Weekend Television in June 99"

http://www.russswift.co.uk/

Tags for this video have been changed from 'italian, job, mini, cooper, car, chase' to 'italian job, mini cooper, car chase' - edited by looris

WRC is different to track racing, smooth is fast on the track, shouldn't really touch the handbrake but instead just tried to glide into the corner under no acceleration and power out while attempting to run over that little sh*tbox at every corner. (used to race mini cooper S originals)