Wind back the clock!

Ok, so we did Pikes Peak and did well, however, way back, like 12 years ago, in 1999 we did an event called the Mt Washington Auto Road hillclimb, or "climb to the Clouds" as it was known. We did that event also in an evo, but this time it was an evo 5 RS, which, given the sparcity of these in the US, it was a mythical creature that had a buzz around it from all the Playstation types.

We won class there also, and took a new record. This is the in-car camera that a TV crew set up, when we were the fastest car in qualifying, and were the only car into the sub 7:00 mins during said qualifying. Of course the two really faster cars had issues, but hey that's racing, and come race day they found their mojo and powered on, relingating us to a deserved 3rd overall but 1st in class. The evo was still fresh off the boat for this event, and sported just stock suspension, stock unflashed ecu, but sticky rubber that really worked over the suspension to the point ti was almost tripping over itself, often getting all discombobulated. With about a stock 290hp, up against the 650hp Nascar engined hybrid of Dan Rutan, and the 500HP REAL Group B Audi Quattor of the talented Frank Sprongle we still held out own and beat many faster cars, but only because I JUST hung onto the car. Enjoy, here is the video.



Here are the results from then.