Video: Savage 1,000PS Suzuki Escudo smashes Pikes Peak

It’s as dramatic as you’d expect, seeing a towering trail of dust and up ahead, a giant wing with a little car attached kicking it all up. The light cut-outs are perhaps the only clue as to what this silhouette never was, with blistered arches, scoops, a splitter to rival a JCB loadall bucket. Plus, there’s a gearbox whine and a roaring turbocharged engine entirely alien to anything you’d find in a ‘90s Suzuki dealer. Does Pikes Peak create the coolest racing cars?

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