RECARO Presents “Devil’s Playground.” We head to Lewisville, Texas to meet with the Evolution Dynamics team who drove the infamous Mitsubishi Evo during this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and had one of the most horrific crashes that became a YouTube sensation after both drivers survived and walked away unscathed. Driver Jeremy Foley, co-pilot Yuri Kouznetsov, and Car Builder Kevin Dubois recap the hill climb and explain why it’s so important to have the right safety equipment.
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Matt Saunders is the first in the world to test the Mitsubishi i-MiEV Evolution Pikes Peak racer. Whether it wins or not, its legacy is likely to be the next Lancer Evo – a car that’s tipped to feature a hybrid powertrain.
You drive any car by using a rudimentary combination of skills that involve your eyes, ears, hands, heart, feet and so on. But to drive a Skoda Fabia Super 2000 rally car – and, more to the point, drive it quickly – you need to dig much deeper into those individual skill sets and maximise the effort in each instance. And nothing but total commitment will suffice.
An S2000 rally car such as the Fabia needs to be muscled violently along the road if it is to give its best, and the key thing that’s required is  … More