Inside the bizarre world of Carjitsu — the sport where seat belt chokes and confined brawling drive fans wild

Road rage may be going mainstream.

Carjitsu, where professional brawlers battle one another inside the confined space of a sedan-size automobile, is the latest bizarre combat sport cruising its way to success, featuring fighters on four wheels permitted to use anything within the car to their advantage — including seat belts to choke out an opponent.

And while the claustrophobic concept may sound slightly insane, Carjitsu is burning virtual rubber on social media — already boasting a reported average of 5 million views per week. Celebrity fans include Keenan Thompson and Kevin Hart, New Jersey has already approved it for gambling and ESPN aired the phenomenon for the first time on the Ocho, the network’s annual weekend celebration of obscure sports, on Sunday.

“There’s something extremely visceral about watching these guys and gals go at it,” Mike Salvaris, co-founder of the Pro League Network, which owns the rights to Carjitsu, told The Post.

“If you look at some of the footage, you see some of the camera guys mouthing to the director, ‘Holy s–t, that actually happened,'” he said.

The sport was originated by a Russian grad student at Kansas State University named Vik Mikheev, in the United States to earn his Ph.D. in mathematics. A black belt in judo and Brazilian jiujitsu, he first came up with the idea of competitive grappling inside a vehicle in 2020.