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| "him" |
Pikes Peak this weekend (19th July)Looks like Marcus Gronholm won't have the only 'Fast Ford'...
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=20269 Assuming it holds together, 1150BHP is quite a lot from a 4 pot 2.4! (though admittedly the last 200BHP are from the Nitrous) 
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| Chris M Wants a V-10 |
That looks like a scale model, not a real car |
| "him" |
It does a bit, though that would put it at a disadvantage on the "race to the clouds" though... |
| Blarno |
WANT! |
| Dr. Hfuhruhurr |
It's a scale model, but with the rear wing from the full size car. |
| Nice Guy Eddie |
I'd love to see what someone like an Adrian Newey could come up with if he was to Design a Pikes Peak monster. A Formula 1 car with zero restrictions riding a few inches higher and on dirt tyres would be ace. |
| GonnaBreakABuggy |
An F1 car riding a few inches higher would have destroyed it's suspension and driveshafts from the shock loading after about half a mile... |