History Main / BadassDriver

* The ''Franchise/FateSeries'' has a whole ''Class'' comprised of Badass Drivers, the Rider Class. Various examples of their vehicles include, but aren't limited to; Pegasi, mammoths, luxury cars, horses, chariots, pirate ships, hippogriffs, dragons, themselves, men, and the [[TrojanHorse Trojan Horse]] turned into a giant mech. Their riding skills also allow them to handle other vehicles with superhuman skill, from modern vehicles to ancient beasts, with varying degrees of success.
** To a lesser extent, Sabers usually have a low-ranked riding skill, making them Badass Drivers as well.

* Freeway, a member of the criminal organization the Network and sometimes foe of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''.
* Batman himself is almost always an incredibly skilled driver. Of course, driving the [[CoolCar Batmobile]] probably helps.
** In ''ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear,'' Bruce learns to drive under the tutelage of a noxious getaway driver named Don Miguel, who fires a rocket launcher while driving. He once drove his car into an art gallery and stole four million dollars in artwork without ever slowing to under 30 miles per hour. However, since he's a murderer, once Bruce's training is complete, he clocks him and leaves him for the police to arrest.
* Shortly before its demise, ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' magazine had a comic strip called ''Driver 10'' about an entire organization of people with the innate ability to expertly control any vehicle at any speed who engaged in superspy adventures. Most of the Drivers had additional powers like SuperStrength or [[ShockAndAwe generating electricity to overload machines]], but the hero, the titular Driver 10, had only his driving skills.
* Robbie Reyes, a ComicBook/GhostRider, drives a '69 Charger, and he participated in illegal racing. He's able to keep up with the best of them.
* In the early ''ComicBook/HuntersHellcats'' stories, Zig Zag was the team's expert wheelman: displaying the ability to remain calm and in the control while under enemy fire. In later stories ([[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome after Zig Zag vanished]]), Juggler usually acted as the team's driver, but he seldom had to demonstrate the same badass capabilities behind the wheel as Zig Zag.
* Razorback, a little-known Marvel character, has the mutant power to, ahem, operate any vehicle at an expert level, just by getting at the controls.
* Diego Zhao (a.k.a. 'Rush') from the ''ComicBook/RushCity'' mini-series in Franchise/TheDCU. It helps that Diego is a metahuman with a heightened sense of awareness. This preternatural instinct affords him automatic awareness of his immediate surroundings.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Rita Novelle was not only one of the Holliday Girls, she was also a midget racer during college. When a fixer couldn't pay her to lose races he tried to sabotage her by paying other drivers to run into her, which didn't work until he'd paid the whole field to sabotage their own cars and set them off driver-less in a race. After she survived the collision she tried to show up to race the next day, only being delayed because she was abducted by the fixer she was stymieing and hadn't fought her way free yet.

* Leigharch from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' mixes this with TheStoner. {{Hilarity|Ensues}} and awesomeness ensue.

* You cant leave [[http://www.minorityracer.com/ Ponce, the Minority Racer,]] out of the list of BA's. This Mexican-American underdog race car driver has managed to compete and finish several world class races in multi-motorsports such as the world championship of extreme rock crawling at UROC Supercrawl 2006, two consecutive [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdkpni_1Tos WRC events in Mexico]] without any prior rally experience in 2008 and 2010, the [[http://ultra4racing.com/featured/2011-griffin-king-of-the-hammers-official-finishing-order/ King of the Hammers race in 2011,]] and recently contacted to drive on the same team with Paris Dakar legend [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHyJFkgbfM8 Jutta Kleinschmidt]] and Michael Podologar to help the team place and finish the [[http://www.4x4offroads.com/minority-racer-joins-team-werk1.html GORM 24hr race, alias the Nürburgring of Offroad.]] in Germany.

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Rallying}} Rally Racing]] drivers in general. Circuit racers run in engineered purposely-built and well-mantained tracks, but Rally drivers drive rally fast in narrow and curvy public roads, in multiple surfaces like gravel, mud, and snow, exposed to the elements, having to juggle attention of the hazardous roads with hearing the pace notes from their navigators at the same time.

* The main characters of ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Bo and Luke Duke are two formerly[[note]]They are on probation and have to stay away from the moonshine[[/note]] [[HillbillyMoonshiner moonshine-running]] GoodOlBoy cousins who drive a [[CoolCar customized 1969 Dodge Charger named (The) General Lee]]. Their skills save their necks many times when chased by the police or by the bad guys, and the entire plot of the first double-episode of season 3 builds on Bo's getting a job as a stunt driver on a travelling car show.

* The main characters of ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': two [[HillbillyMoonshiner moonshine-running]] GoodOlBoy brothers who drive a [[CoolCar customized 1969 Dodge Charger nicknamed (The) General Lee]].

* Straight Cougar of ''Anime/{{Scryed}}'' can not only turn any vehicle into a supercharged, pink race-car, but also drive it like you wouldn't believe. Yes, he DrivesLikeCrazy. No, he's not going to hit anything unless he MEANS to.