Fastest Car (2018) s01e01 Episode Script
David vs. Goliath
1 I'm a big adrenaline junkie.
I enjoy the rush.
A supercar is ultra-high performance.
A sleeper, it's gonna get its ass kicked.
I built this sleeper in my garage.
Supercar guys just went to the dealership and bought a fancy car.
This Odyssey is the perfect sleeper because it looks like it can't do much of anything.
We've actually made minivans sexy.
Supercars are built by a bunch of engineers.
With this sleeper car, it's just me and my dad.
You're making decisions within, you know, hundredths of milliseconds and then those decisions ultimately can be catastrophic if you make the wrong ones.
There is four really, really fast cars racing at incredible speeds, inches away from each other, all fighting for position.
When I'm ready to race, I'm in the zone.
Nothing matters.
I visualize the win, I get the win.
It's a quarter-mile race.
People look at my truck and assume that it's not gonna be that fast, but I'll turn the nitrous on and destroy.
The winner of this race will go on to the championship race in El Mirage Dry Lake Bed.
I've got to win.
I wanna win.
I need to beat that person.
I need to win.
It's gonna be insanity no matter what.
My name is Corey Caouette.
I'm from Huntington Beach, California.
I drive this thing everywhere.
I'm proud to have this thing on the road next to just regular old cars.
The name of my car is Lunch Money.
The name Lunch Money came from, like when you're back in junior high and you're saving as much money as you can to build something on a budget, and compete against things that are worth a ton of money.
People are shocked when they know it can go over 150 miles an hour.
I put a lot of work and pretty much blood, sweat and tears into this.
It's when I'm driving this car it's It's like I'm a hundred percent normal.
Just doing what I love to do.
Growing up in Huntington Beach, I surfed a lot, but I skated and road bikes even more.
You would catch me there pretty much every day after school.
If I wasn't doing that, I was at the skate park, skating.
I never broke a bone in my body until my accident.
2007, I'm out of high school, I'm 21 years old, you know, I was in my prime.
We're hanging out and I take a phone call, so I stepped out to a hallway with a handrail, leaning over the handrail and woke up in ICU.
I looked over and somebody said, "You fell from very high up.
" And I looked down and I felt I was like, "I'm paralyzed.
" I had complete spinal cord injury T5.
I had broken all my ribs, I collapsed both of my lungs, I broke my collar bone and my shoulder blade.
Two months later, they let me start rehab.
Learning how to get around in a wheelchair, learning how to shower.
That stuff is difficult.
Balance is a huge thing and I worked on that for a long time, just sitting on a flat surface, holding my arms out, and trying to keep myself from falling over.
Driving a car, I thought it was gonna be impossible forever.
Two, three years after my accident, I was really bored.
I needed something to do.
So, I bought the cab.
It had the big giant doors, it was perfect for me transferring in in my wheelchair.
I had to have it.
The cab is a 1927 Dodge 3-Window Coupe.
The bed is a 1935 bed cut down.
The engine is out of a 2002 Corvette with all the fuel injection and there's about 20 different vehicles in this car.
The first version took nine months from start to driving.
When I designed this hand controller right here, I was thinking what was gonna be the most comfortable for me to use.
With me not having abdominal muscles to hold myself up, really, I decided that pushing forward is obviously gonna push my body back into the seat.
And as far as the throttle, it's just as simple as pulling a lever.
Driving it for the first time, I was definitely proud of the fact that I built it myself in my garage.
I think my whole life, I've always wanted to drive something that, you know, screams "Look at me," but is cool.
It was freedom.
It was just a total independence.
I'm going and doing things that I wanted to do and not having to ask somebody for a ride and you get sick of it.
You don't wanna rely on people for anything.
This race is important to me because I just wanna prove that experience beats a pocket full of cash.
My name is Hannah Maloof and I am 19 years old.
I wouldn't say I'm girly at all.
I barely do my makeup.
I always put my all into everything, a hundred and ten percent into everything I do.
I just love racing, I love going fast, I love the adrenaline.
I love building the car and the engine.
I like naturally aspirated.
Like no turbos, no nitrous.
I like to pull as much horsepower as I can out of the engine and get it done.
I don't use nitrous.
I think nitrous is, you know, bottles are for babies so I've never been nervous around cars.
I grew up in it.
My dad is Sammy Maloof, he's a stuntman and he builds racing engines and owns a shop and has been racing his whole life.
My dad is one of the best.
I couldn't have asked for a better dad.
I'm a Hollywood stuntman.
Vehicular stunts is my specialty.
It's a nature to me.
It's not second nature, it's my nature.
It's what I eat, drink, breath, and sleep.
I didn't just grow up around quiet, everyday cars, I grew up around loud muscle cars.
You know, fast cars.
Here we go, hold it up.
More, more, more.
More, more.
More, more.
My dad has been training me in precision driving.
Stunts.
My first race, I was 16.
I had just got my license.
I'm not good with the whole school thing.
I was home-schooled.
I've learned so much more being here than I do at a school, because at a school, you're not really learning anything.
- That one? Wait.
- No, it's too big.
Way too big.
- What size is that? - Just give me a crescent wrench.
When you send kids to schools, and this is not knocking a school, this is just me.
You got 700 kids training their kids.
They're gonna teach them how to lie.
They're gonna teach them how to steal.
Go in my engine room and get my box of fittings.
Where's those wrenches? I have three daughters, and they are so mechanically inclined.
Go get four shorties that'll go in here.
I went to college for two weeks.
I listened to a teacher making 36 grand a year.
I made more than him in one month in illegal street racing than he did all year.
Every day, Hannah is building racing engines with me.
I love being here.
I love the shop.
Eventually, when I get older, I'm gonna take over the shop.
Then I'm gonna be racing in my dad's 1964 Chevy Pickup Truck.
It's got one of my dad's engines in it, so it's definitely a sleeper.
This was his first car.
When I was 15, I wanted to get into street racing because that's what I wanted, to make my money.
Most of the time, they're gonna look at this brick and they're gonna say, "How is this thing gonna ever run against the car?" I never lost a race in my pickup.
I'm super-excited to race a supercar.
That's really cool and it's really exciting.
My name is Bisi Ezerioha.
I was actually born in Lynwood, California, but I went to Nigeria when I was very young, and I spent a majority of my life there.
But came here to United States really to pursue my passion with engineering.
My dad was a geologist and my mom was a biochemist who's brilliant, by the way, and was a big influence on me.
But the entire time I was in school, I did something quite naughty.
I got into street racing.
It was a really good way to make money.
The best night I had was a $5,000 pot.
After that, I was hooked.
After graduating from university, I was doing very well, making six figures in pharmaceutical sales.
But the whole time I was in pharma, I raced.
I raced, and raced, and raced.
And then this other side of my business started picking up very nicely on the side where I go to track and people kept approaching me to make things for them.
Well, it started becoming quite lucrative, but I don't have the balls to just leave this six-figure comfortable job.
- And then here comes Hedi.
- I was a pre-med major at USC.
He comes up to me and he goes, "Are you courting anyone?" And I was like, "Whoa, this is like Gaelic English or something.
" We both have engineering and chemistry type of backgrounds.
We are both very technical.
She comes from a family of entrepreneurs and watched me for a long time and says, "Bisi, you need to do this.
" She really pushed me to work on cars, and now I'm the owner and founder of Bisimoto Engineering.
We take these cars that you would never expect to be exciting, and we make them exciting.
I really enjoy what I do, but it is a balancing act.
If I spend all my time on my business, my family life will suffer.
My wife and I after getting married didn't even we've not gone on our honeymoon yet.
We constantly work.
It's one of our biggest hurdles, I think.
There's so many fears of, like, failure, not being able to make ends meet, or what could happen if the business didn't go as planned.
Hi, Akira.
When Akira was born, it changed significantly my outlook on life.
That's what got me into building minivans.
Because I love speed but I have a growing family.
So how could I eat my cake and have it, too? I know.
Let's build this van.
It will just be a fun project.
It's not a bright red, or menacing black, or or canary yellow.
It's burgundy.
You can't get any more bland than burgundy.
This Odyssey is the perfect sleeper because it looks like it can't do much of anything.
1029 is the official horsepower rating for this 2014 Bisimoto Odyssey.
- What's the unofficial? - I can't say.
Quite a bit more than that.
I'm severely underestimated in my racing, and upon launch I'm left, and then by the time I hit third gear, I'm right there, and by the time I'm fourth and fifth, I'm passing everyone.
I am accustomed to winning.
I'm very proud of my accomplishments.
If you go to my office, you'll see tons of trophies.
Street cred is very important.
I have a lot at stake here.
I mean, the whole world will see what's gonna happen.
Your credibility is everything.
I wanna come out the victor and really make people feel the power of this Odyssey.
Then the next time, they hear the word Bisimoto they'll think twice before trying to line-up with him.
My name is Erik Davis.
E-R-I-K.
The Viking spelling.
I'm pretty intense, competitive, loyal, hardworking, probably work too much.
It's how how I've been since I was a kid.
You know, it's about getting shit done and winning it.
Growing up, I was the third son, so I think to a certain extent, I got away with murder.
As a kid, we had horses and motorcycles and we didn't really have any money growing up but I didn't know that, you know, we always had everything that we ever needed.
My father always had a project car.
Some of my youngest memories ultimately are revolving around cars in one form or another.
What's the what's the rate? So, it's aggressive.
So, I raced, you know, BMX, motocross, played all different kinds of sports, but the thought of serving my country was appealing to me, and ultimately went to the Air Force Academy to play football.
So, I served six years in the Air Force.
My degree was in finance.
And now, today, I'm involved in a variety of businesses.
I understand but can't can't you just update that and it's active? I don't buy cars specifically because other people think they're collectible.
I buy them because they're special to me for one reason or another.
You know, like like, this car is a good example.
This is my 1970 Hemi Cuda.
It's got a Keith Black 540 all-aluminum Hemi motor in it, about 700 Horsepower naturally aspirated.
Car's kind of become a little bit famous, I guess.
It was in Fast and the Furious 6 and 7.
My friend Paul Walker, and another good buddy of mine, Roger Rodas, we all ultimately met around the car world and motorsports etcetera.
It was really how it's involvement was born, through Paul and his involvement in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
Our mission was to have a lot of fun.
Race cars, collect cars, kind of pursue the passion of automotive.
We did a lot of buying and selling of cars.
I think between the three of us at one point we had 120-plus cars or something like that.
It was a little it was getting a little out of hand.
So, the car we're gonna be using out of my collection for this is a 2006 Ford GT.
A lot of people don't even know the car exists.
Back in the early 60s, Henry Ford told his engineers to beat Ferrari at Le Mans.
So, they proceeded to go and and bring in a lot of talent, including Carroll Shelby.
And out of that was born the GT40.
That car went to Le Mans in 1966.
They put three cars on the track and it took first, second and third.
One, two, three on the podium at the end of the race which was a very historic event, obviously, for an American-made factory to go in there and do that.
So, 40 years later in commemoration of that great event, Ford elected to build the limited production of these cars.
The sound of a small block Coyote motor, it's just I don't know.
I think it's one of the best sounds when you open it up.
It just barks, you know.
It's not the quietest car.
Racing a Ford GT against sleeper cars is something that I've never done before.
Looking forward to seeing the results and having some fun with it.
Hmm.
Spider.
Me and Amber met 2011.
She's always taking care of me.
You got it? You do.
We do everything together.
I mean, if it's going to a racetrack on a miserable, hot day, if I'm going, she'll go.
It's not your typical "girlfriend kind of has her girly things" We both enjoy what we do and we do it together.
- You got it? - Yeah.
It's going.
Oh, my fingers.
You got them.
Me and Rob, our stories are very similar.
Just everything.
I mean, we're like the same age, same hobbies.
He's also in a wheelchair.
I seen he had a sick-ass truck with cool hand controls, an LS, and the thing was fast and he built it all himself, which was the exact same way I did my build.
No, we're doing good.
Halfway done.
So, you find a good dude in a chair and you're all got similar interests and stuff, you know, it's pretty tight.
Do you actually know who you're racing? I just found out it's a Ford GT.
- Ford GT? - Yeah.
I don't even know what a Ford G really does.
I mean, I know it's a V8 with a supercharger, so Yeah.
I think you're gonna kick its ass.
That's probably what I think - Let's see.
- with this thing.
- A 2006 - 2006 Ford GT Well, they're a $139,000.
- Yup.
- It's a 5.
4-liter V8.
550 horsepower.
You got just damn near as much horsepower with nitrous.
Three thousand, four hundred and eighty-five pounds.
So, he is pretty much on point, a thousand pounds heavier than me.
And I pooped today, so that's like another five pounds right there, dropping weight.
I'm a jockey.
Who you gonna be racing, Hannah? What do you think? - A Hellcat? - No.
- Demon? Porsche? - No.
- McLaren? Lamborghini? - No.
You're not talking about the Mustang G or the Mustang It's not a Mustang.
It is Ford.
- It's a Ford GT.
- Like the GT40? - Yeah, yeah.
- Interesting.
Interesting.
So, we have to get a few things set up.
We got to finish the cell in it.
Finish the tune-up on it.
Set the suspension and you'll be good, pumpkin.
You worried? - No.
- I know you're not.
There we go.
Do I have the whole thing by myself? I got to run a fuel line.
- Get that.
- And it's snug.
Give me a 5/8ths wrench and an 11/16ths.
What do we know about this car? What do we know about the '06? It runs, I believe, 11.
2 in a quarter-mile at 134.
Really? That's pretty decent.
That's decent for older car.
It's pretty good traction, zero to 60 is 3.
3, a 3.
5 depending, like, as well.
And 550 horse power, 500-pound feet of torque, and 3500 pounds so, it's pretty light car.
Wow.
So, it has almost 2000 pounds in its favor compared to us.
My goal is to take off the street tires, change plu spark plugs, putting fresh oil in, drain the 91-octane, put in the 85.
I'm not gonna make it easy for them.
I have a 40 here, I have a front here.
Wow, this is heavy.
These tires are a lot more stickier than the street ones.
So even though it gives us a higher potential to destroy the gear box, it's gonna allow us to accelerate a lot faster.
He's very focused, determined.
The thing with him, he really is a mad scientist.
Well, we need to lighten this thing up.
- Flip from here, right? - I am not sure.
- There we go.
- How heavy is that? - You guys got it? - Okay.
Where's it going? Are you nervous, Bisi? - I'm excited.
I'm not nervous.
- Are you really? You're such an optimist.
If he does get beat by a minivan, that would be kind of embarrassing.
What are you doing, just sitting there? I'm doing the most important thing, which is notes.
When I go into a race, obviously, I try to be as prepared as I can be, but in the last few years, I've been racing less than I'd like to.
In 2013, we were having an event, actually out of the shop in Valencia, and unfortunately, that was the day that Roger and Paul were killed.
Paul Walker, actor, heart-throb and car enthusiast, killed this afternoon when he and a friend were going for a ride in a sports car which crashed into a tree and burst into flames.
Yeah, I was I was the first one to arrive on the scene when Roger and Paul crashed.
So so, yeah, I remember it very vividly.
The car that crashed today, a Porsche Carrera GT, belonged to the owner of a high-end racing shop located around the corner from the crash.
I've had other experiences in my life that have been pretty gnarly.
That one was just so close to home.
I was always the risk taker.
Those guys weren't, by the way.
I was.
So, I was you know, driving too fast and going into canyons and doing all the stuff that I probably shouldn't have been doing.
So, it puts a lot of things in perspective when you lose friends like that.
It was a life-changing event for me.
Racing's dangerous.
When you're racing, particularly in close quarters, in this case, a drag race, a lot of different things can go wrong.
It's part of racing and ultimately something that you got to be prepared for.
Let me see Hannah.
- Either one either one is okay.
- Okay.
Get in the truck a minute.
Hold on.
Where are you gonna sit? Put this right here.
- When something goes wrong - This like this.
you only have one chance to collect yourself.
And sometimes, that chance turns into a half a chance.
Here which goes like this.
And I've trained her in safety, but she needs to be on her game.
Let me let me have Wait, wait Whoa, whoa, what, give me that.
Where's the where's the bracket for that one? Safety first with me.
There's a 4,000-pound car that's a piece of iron.
Like this.
There is no room for error.
My strengths would be, basically, horsepower to weight the fact that I'm on nitrous.
The nitrous gives me way more horsepower and we're gonna be moving.
So, I'm gonna have to come in a little soft.
Right when we leave, it'll be not even springing any nitrous, on full throttle and then probably within like three seconds, is you're gonna start progressively springing all the way up to 150.
Are you scared about the 150 shot? - I am.
- You are? Why? - We've never done over a hundred.
- We'll keep the wheels on it.
My whole goal was to have the front end done before we did anything over 100.
Just to make sure nothing comes loose going that fast, that quick, you know? - Yeah.
- She's paranoid.
I well, yeah, I love the truck, okay.
- Oh, you love the truck.
- It's the truck.
Yeah.
No.
I'd like to keep Corey around a little bit longer.
We'll have to do a test run tonight.
So, coming from a family of scientists has its perks, because I look at data.
I'm very data-driven, and use that data to my advantage.
When it comes to technology, that's really where I shine.
So, this is my volumetric efficiency map.
This determines the volumetric efficiency of the engine based upon how much fuel it requires.
This pointer shows a few parameters real-time.
That's extremely important to tuning your vehicle.
I have everything from hub RPM, which is the RPM that the wheel sees itself, to engine RPM.
And you'll see real-time the horsepower the car is putting out.
This is how you know how well tuned your car is.
This is how I know if my car makes 200 horsepower, seven hundred horsepower, or 1000.
It's extremely accurate and very sensitive.
I can turn the headlights on and see a difference in power.
The average supercar does hover in the 600-horsepower range.
This eclipses that by a full 400 horses.
When I roll up to the race day, people are gonna be shocked by its performance.
- I'm ready.
- This is for credibility, this is for street cred, this is for prestige.
Damn.
Damn.
Today we're testing.
Give it a good shake down, make sure everything is working good.
I just drive it there, change out the tires so that way it gets better traction.
Put them at 15 and then we'll we'll see what they look like visually.
I try to beat my best time I've ever had.
Look at that.
Technology.
Oh, we're good.
Here you go.
All right, I think we're ready to race.
When I pull up into staging, repetitively going over it, keeping yourself calm.
So that way when you go out there and the lights come down, it's just natural.
You don't wanna jump the gun right when that light's right where it needs to be.
You predict it and you go right on time.
The first test was on the slow side.
Breaking 100 miles an hour is pretty hard to do.
It spun a little bit, so I mean, it's hot.
It was 14 PSI and we're gonna try ten.
And now it's time to add nitrous to the mix.
I need to win, because I always do.
Watch out, the Odyssey is coming.
Motorsports is really a passion for me.
It's a chance for me to go out and compete, you know, at 45 years old, it's one of the few ways that I can still compete at that level.
So, this race is gonna be interesting, I guess.
I know some of these sleeper cars can surprise you.
Obviously, I like to win.
That light is everything, Hannah.
You just keep your eye on that top light.
When that thing goes off Does it look good? Is it important that we go out there and win a race? Absolutely.
I'm 100 percent ready.
I feel bad for anybody that has to go up against me.
There's really not much preparation in this thing.
It's just drop the fucking clutch and go, right? Somebody's got to win, somebody's got to lose.
That's just the game.
Babe, you wanna grab my chair? Let's take you to Car number two.
What the hell is that? No freaking way.
That's the Lunch Money truck.
I've seen them at Irwindale all the time.
- Oh, it's Maloof.
- Maloof.
- It's Hot Rod Hannah.
- Yup.
- Do you know those people? - Mm-hm.
- Super rich.
- Yeah, I know.
I think I know those guys.
- Which ones? - The guys that run the Lunch Money truck.
- Let the shit-talking begin.
- I love it.
What a beautiful day.
- Hey, man.
- How you all doing? - Good, man.
I'm Rob.
- Yeah, Sammy Maloof.
- It's very nice to meet you.
- Met him and your gal.
- Where's your gal today? - She's sitting in there.
Wonderful, man.
Beautiful.
- I'm so glad you guys are here.
- Gonna be a good race.
- How are you? Good.
- Hi.
How's it going? - Ready to show a Ford GT what's up? - Yeah.
Oh my God.
Is this the other sleeper? Oh, yeah.
Well, at least I'm not the least aerodynamic.
That sounds pretty good, though.
Okay - Okay.
- Laid out.
Yeah.
That's how we like to cruise.
Take your kids to soccer in that? There you go.
Oh, man.
- This thing a front-wheel drive? - Front-wheel drive, still yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Now, we're waiting on the supercar.
Uh-oh.
Here it is.
And then you got the Ford GT.
This is gonna be funny.
- There's the competition.
- Yup.
And he doesn't even really have a tire on it so that's good for us.
- What's up, guys? How's it going? - What's up man? How's it going? - How's it going? My name's Corey.
- Corey, what's going on? Is this your guys'? Holy shit.
- What about the - Minivan? - That's a what, 1,029 Horsepower? - Four wheel or front wheel? - Front wheel.
- Front wheel.
- Hmm.
- It's got a really nice tire on it but He should be almost 5,000 pounds.
Front-wheel drive, so it's gonna be really trying to pull the weight.
I don't know how I haven't seen this thing before.
- No worries, it's been around.
- What's underneath the - Under the hood? - Some really interesting stuff.
I'm sure.
By looking at the van, what is it gonna tell me? Nothing.
I mean, I can look at certain things and know that there's been big, huge modifications.
Very cool.
I want turbos.
I got the minivan by half of it and I think it's 5,000 pounds.
I'm 2,500.
I'm sure the pickup truck's probably 4,000.
Something like that.
And I got the supercar by 1000 pounds.
Manual gearbox, no traction control.
There's a lot of room for error.
Let's go look at the truck.
I bet you he keeps it closed.
Yup.
You don't get to see shit.
Pop the hood.
I wanna know.
I've never seen Hannah's truck before.
It's my first time.
You definitely don't know what's under the hood until you hear it.
The pickup truck, I don't know much about 'cause the guy won't let me get close to it.
He's very secretive, but when we get out there, I'm gonna win because that's what I do.
Wow.
I've seen a very nice variety of cars here.
From an old-school rat rod Hmm.
to a very, very well-put together pickup truck.
It looks really sleeper but the tire size, the compound on that vehicle, how it's set up.
There's something going on there.
More than meets the eye.
We got a brick.
You know, we got a building here.
You know, it's not the most desirable sleeper car.
The one that has the most disadvantage is the one that's the most insecure here.
Drivers, may I have your attention, please? We thank you guys for coming out.
What we're going to do is go out and walk the track.
Make sure you're comfortable with the track.
Let's race.
Race time.
It's the desert.
It's hot.
And then asphalt adds to that.
The goal for the day is not to run the truck, like as much as possible.
Let me see your gauge, bro.
Holy mackerel.
141.
5.
Turn up the boost.
I've never raced in these conditions.
Heat is always the enemy of performance.
Here's what I'm concerned about right here, Hannah.
None of that track matters over there.
What matters is right here.
Yeah.
There's a few rocks over here.
Kick them all off.
Get them off that road.
They're all a quarter mile long.
So, I think we'll be all right.
Let's just pray.
We pray for the drivers right now that they'll all be safe.
Father, we thank you that you got a hedge of protection around Hannah and all the drivers.
- Amen.
- Amen.
Burnouts are very crucial to a race.
If you can't get your car to hook up, then all that horsepower is wasted and working against you.
I think doing a burnout is gonna get my tires hot and slippery.
So instead of doing the burnout, we're gonna go with keeping the engine temp as cool as possible.
This is for street cred.
This is for prestige.
I need to win.
Because I always do.
It's what I do.
Hannah knows what she's got to do behind that wheel.
Winning is important to me.
I can do this.
Stay in my lane, stay out of trouble.
I have no idea whatsoever what's gonna happen.
Any of these cars could win it.
Winning it, would prove that me being in a wheelchair doesn't really matter.
Everybody ready? - Wow! She launched.
- Fuck yeah, Corey, get it.
That's sick.
She had him all the way.
I don't know what happened at the end.
Well good for him.
- Did you get it? - Yeah.
Fuck yeah.
- How did you do? - Third.
- You got third? - It was a good idea to not to not warm the tires up.
100 percent.
Good game plan, guys.
Hell, yeah.
I always win.
Even for me to even be last, I've never done that.
Lunch Money got first.
GT got second.
I'm not used to that.
- Good job.
- Thank you.
Yeah.
Well done.
That thing's fast.
Well, front-wheel drive.
- That was fun.
Yeah.
- Okay.
Thank you.
- Good job, guys.
- Well done, sir.
- Thank you very much.
- No worries.
No worries.
- You too, man.
Good job.
- Thank you, thank you.
It's fun.
- But - Have a look at my tire marks.
Time to go to the finale.
- Look at that.
- Yeah.
Soon as I got in into the nitrous, it just spun and spun and spun.
And I was just guiding the missile.
I just held it straight and figured I was going into the dirt, or through the flags.
And we went through the flags first.
I just happened to get just enough traction and I weigh less that it was just pushing me out in front of them.
I think one of the biggest challenges with my car and the other two, the van and the truck were just almost too much horsepower, right? So just goes to prove you can't change physics, ultimately.
Set of slicks, it would've had a better deal, but the import didn't beat you.
Mm-hm.
Look at that.
- Good job.
- Thank you.
Yeah, you laid some dark ones.
You ran clean and you ran a good race.
Before we get into the results, I want to give you guys a round of applause.
- It was outstanding.
- Thank you.
Outstanding.
All right.
So, we have first place, Corey.
- Attaboy, Corey.
- Nice job, nice job.
- Thank you, guys.
- Second place, Erik.
- Outstanding, very nice.
- Nice job, nice job.
Third place, Hannah.
- Did a wonderful job.
- Yeah! And fourth place, Bisi.
Thank you for coming out, so It gives me a lot of food for thought on what to do to optimize this setup for that type of racing, you know? So, I learned a lot, it's good.
I have good data.
It was pretty close.
It was real close.
It was.
I wouldn't have put my bet on the rat rod, but they did a good job.
I was a little nervous, but didn't really have much of a problem up against the competition so I was definitely proud to win, and prove that a garage-built hot rod could beat a supercar.
It's it's a good feeling.
Yeah, let's let's do it again.
I enjoy the rush.
A supercar is ultra-high performance.
A sleeper, it's gonna get its ass kicked.
I built this sleeper in my garage.
Supercar guys just went to the dealership and bought a fancy car.
This Odyssey is the perfect sleeper because it looks like it can't do much of anything.
We've actually made minivans sexy.
Supercars are built by a bunch of engineers.
With this sleeper car, it's just me and my dad.
You're making decisions within, you know, hundredths of milliseconds and then those decisions ultimately can be catastrophic if you make the wrong ones.
There is four really, really fast cars racing at incredible speeds, inches away from each other, all fighting for position.
When I'm ready to race, I'm in the zone.
Nothing matters.
I visualize the win, I get the win.
It's a quarter-mile race.
People look at my truck and assume that it's not gonna be that fast, but I'll turn the nitrous on and destroy.
The winner of this race will go on to the championship race in El Mirage Dry Lake Bed.
I've got to win.
I wanna win.
I need to beat that person.
I need to win.
It's gonna be insanity no matter what.
My name is Corey Caouette.
I'm from Huntington Beach, California.
I drive this thing everywhere.
I'm proud to have this thing on the road next to just regular old cars.
The name of my car is Lunch Money.
The name Lunch Money came from, like when you're back in junior high and you're saving as much money as you can to build something on a budget, and compete against things that are worth a ton of money.
People are shocked when they know it can go over 150 miles an hour.
I put a lot of work and pretty much blood, sweat and tears into this.
It's when I'm driving this car it's It's like I'm a hundred percent normal.
Just doing what I love to do.
Growing up in Huntington Beach, I surfed a lot, but I skated and road bikes even more.
You would catch me there pretty much every day after school.
If I wasn't doing that, I was at the skate park, skating.
I never broke a bone in my body until my accident.
2007, I'm out of high school, I'm 21 years old, you know, I was in my prime.
We're hanging out and I take a phone call, so I stepped out to a hallway with a handrail, leaning over the handrail and woke up in ICU.
I looked over and somebody said, "You fell from very high up.
" And I looked down and I felt I was like, "I'm paralyzed.
" I had complete spinal cord injury T5.
I had broken all my ribs, I collapsed both of my lungs, I broke my collar bone and my shoulder blade.
Two months later, they let me start rehab.
Learning how to get around in a wheelchair, learning how to shower.
That stuff is difficult.
Balance is a huge thing and I worked on that for a long time, just sitting on a flat surface, holding my arms out, and trying to keep myself from falling over.
Driving a car, I thought it was gonna be impossible forever.
Two, three years after my accident, I was really bored.
I needed something to do.
So, I bought the cab.
It had the big giant doors, it was perfect for me transferring in in my wheelchair.
I had to have it.
The cab is a 1927 Dodge 3-Window Coupe.
The bed is a 1935 bed cut down.
The engine is out of a 2002 Corvette with all the fuel injection and there's about 20 different vehicles in this car.
The first version took nine months from start to driving.
When I designed this hand controller right here, I was thinking what was gonna be the most comfortable for me to use.
With me not having abdominal muscles to hold myself up, really, I decided that pushing forward is obviously gonna push my body back into the seat.
And as far as the throttle, it's just as simple as pulling a lever.
Driving it for the first time, I was definitely proud of the fact that I built it myself in my garage.
I think my whole life, I've always wanted to drive something that, you know, screams "Look at me," but is cool.
It was freedom.
It was just a total independence.
I'm going and doing things that I wanted to do and not having to ask somebody for a ride and you get sick of it.
You don't wanna rely on people for anything.
This race is important to me because I just wanna prove that experience beats a pocket full of cash.
My name is Hannah Maloof and I am 19 years old.
I wouldn't say I'm girly at all.
I barely do my makeup.
I always put my all into everything, a hundred and ten percent into everything I do.
I just love racing, I love going fast, I love the adrenaline.
I love building the car and the engine.
I like naturally aspirated.
Like no turbos, no nitrous.
I like to pull as much horsepower as I can out of the engine and get it done.
I don't use nitrous.
I think nitrous is, you know, bottles are for babies so I've never been nervous around cars.
I grew up in it.
My dad is Sammy Maloof, he's a stuntman and he builds racing engines and owns a shop and has been racing his whole life.
My dad is one of the best.
I couldn't have asked for a better dad.
I'm a Hollywood stuntman.
Vehicular stunts is my specialty.
It's a nature to me.
It's not second nature, it's my nature.
It's what I eat, drink, breath, and sleep.
I didn't just grow up around quiet, everyday cars, I grew up around loud muscle cars.
You know, fast cars.
Here we go, hold it up.
More, more, more.
More, more.
More, more.
My dad has been training me in precision driving.
Stunts.
My first race, I was 16.
I had just got my license.
I'm not good with the whole school thing.
I was home-schooled.
I've learned so much more being here than I do at a school, because at a school, you're not really learning anything.
- That one? Wait.
- No, it's too big.
Way too big.
- What size is that? - Just give me a crescent wrench.
When you send kids to schools, and this is not knocking a school, this is just me.
You got 700 kids training their kids.
They're gonna teach them how to lie.
They're gonna teach them how to steal.
Go in my engine room and get my box of fittings.
Where's those wrenches? I have three daughters, and they are so mechanically inclined.
Go get four shorties that'll go in here.
I went to college for two weeks.
I listened to a teacher making 36 grand a year.
I made more than him in one month in illegal street racing than he did all year.
Every day, Hannah is building racing engines with me.
I love being here.
I love the shop.
Eventually, when I get older, I'm gonna take over the shop.
Then I'm gonna be racing in my dad's 1964 Chevy Pickup Truck.
It's got one of my dad's engines in it, so it's definitely a sleeper.
This was his first car.
When I was 15, I wanted to get into street racing because that's what I wanted, to make my money.
Most of the time, they're gonna look at this brick and they're gonna say, "How is this thing gonna ever run against the car?" I never lost a race in my pickup.
I'm super-excited to race a supercar.
That's really cool and it's really exciting.
My name is Bisi Ezerioha.
I was actually born in Lynwood, California, but I went to Nigeria when I was very young, and I spent a majority of my life there.
But came here to United States really to pursue my passion with engineering.
My dad was a geologist and my mom was a biochemist who's brilliant, by the way, and was a big influence on me.
But the entire time I was in school, I did something quite naughty.
I got into street racing.
It was a really good way to make money.
The best night I had was a $5,000 pot.
After that, I was hooked.
After graduating from university, I was doing very well, making six figures in pharmaceutical sales.
But the whole time I was in pharma, I raced.
I raced, and raced, and raced.
And then this other side of my business started picking up very nicely on the side where I go to track and people kept approaching me to make things for them.
Well, it started becoming quite lucrative, but I don't have the balls to just leave this six-figure comfortable job.
- And then here comes Hedi.
- I was a pre-med major at USC.
He comes up to me and he goes, "Are you courting anyone?" And I was like, "Whoa, this is like Gaelic English or something.
" We both have engineering and chemistry type of backgrounds.
We are both very technical.
She comes from a family of entrepreneurs and watched me for a long time and says, "Bisi, you need to do this.
" She really pushed me to work on cars, and now I'm the owner and founder of Bisimoto Engineering.
We take these cars that you would never expect to be exciting, and we make them exciting.
I really enjoy what I do, but it is a balancing act.
If I spend all my time on my business, my family life will suffer.
My wife and I after getting married didn't even we've not gone on our honeymoon yet.
We constantly work.
It's one of our biggest hurdles, I think.
There's so many fears of, like, failure, not being able to make ends meet, or what could happen if the business didn't go as planned.
Hi, Akira.
When Akira was born, it changed significantly my outlook on life.
That's what got me into building minivans.
Because I love speed but I have a growing family.
So how could I eat my cake and have it, too? I know.
Let's build this van.
It will just be a fun project.
It's not a bright red, or menacing black, or or canary yellow.
It's burgundy.
You can't get any more bland than burgundy.
This Odyssey is the perfect sleeper because it looks like it can't do much of anything.
1029 is the official horsepower rating for this 2014 Bisimoto Odyssey.
- What's the unofficial? - I can't say.
Quite a bit more than that.
I'm severely underestimated in my racing, and upon launch I'm left, and then by the time I hit third gear, I'm right there, and by the time I'm fourth and fifth, I'm passing everyone.
I am accustomed to winning.
I'm very proud of my accomplishments.
If you go to my office, you'll see tons of trophies.
Street cred is very important.
I have a lot at stake here.
I mean, the whole world will see what's gonna happen.
Your credibility is everything.
I wanna come out the victor and really make people feel the power of this Odyssey.
Then the next time, they hear the word Bisimoto they'll think twice before trying to line-up with him.
My name is Erik Davis.
E-R-I-K.
The Viking spelling.
I'm pretty intense, competitive, loyal, hardworking, probably work too much.
It's how how I've been since I was a kid.
You know, it's about getting shit done and winning it.
Growing up, I was the third son, so I think to a certain extent, I got away with murder.
As a kid, we had horses and motorcycles and we didn't really have any money growing up but I didn't know that, you know, we always had everything that we ever needed.
My father always had a project car.
Some of my youngest memories ultimately are revolving around cars in one form or another.
What's the what's the rate? So, it's aggressive.
So, I raced, you know, BMX, motocross, played all different kinds of sports, but the thought of serving my country was appealing to me, and ultimately went to the Air Force Academy to play football.
So, I served six years in the Air Force.
My degree was in finance.
And now, today, I'm involved in a variety of businesses.
I understand but can't can't you just update that and it's active? I don't buy cars specifically because other people think they're collectible.
I buy them because they're special to me for one reason or another.
You know, like like, this car is a good example.
This is my 1970 Hemi Cuda.
It's got a Keith Black 540 all-aluminum Hemi motor in it, about 700 Horsepower naturally aspirated.
Car's kind of become a little bit famous, I guess.
It was in Fast and the Furious 6 and 7.
My friend Paul Walker, and another good buddy of mine, Roger Rodas, we all ultimately met around the car world and motorsports etcetera.
It was really how it's involvement was born, through Paul and his involvement in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
Our mission was to have a lot of fun.
Race cars, collect cars, kind of pursue the passion of automotive.
We did a lot of buying and selling of cars.
I think between the three of us at one point we had 120-plus cars or something like that.
It was a little it was getting a little out of hand.
So, the car we're gonna be using out of my collection for this is a 2006 Ford GT.
A lot of people don't even know the car exists.
Back in the early 60s, Henry Ford told his engineers to beat Ferrari at Le Mans.
So, they proceeded to go and and bring in a lot of talent, including Carroll Shelby.
And out of that was born the GT40.
That car went to Le Mans in 1966.
They put three cars on the track and it took first, second and third.
One, two, three on the podium at the end of the race which was a very historic event, obviously, for an American-made factory to go in there and do that.
So, 40 years later in commemoration of that great event, Ford elected to build the limited production of these cars.
The sound of a small block Coyote motor, it's just I don't know.
I think it's one of the best sounds when you open it up.
It just barks, you know.
It's not the quietest car.
Racing a Ford GT against sleeper cars is something that I've never done before.
Looking forward to seeing the results and having some fun with it.
Hmm.
Spider.
Me and Amber met 2011.
She's always taking care of me.
You got it? You do.
We do everything together.
I mean, if it's going to a racetrack on a miserable, hot day, if I'm going, she'll go.
It's not your typical "girlfriend kind of has her girly things" We both enjoy what we do and we do it together.
- You got it? - Yeah.
It's going.
Oh, my fingers.
You got them.
Me and Rob, our stories are very similar.
Just everything.
I mean, we're like the same age, same hobbies.
He's also in a wheelchair.
I seen he had a sick-ass truck with cool hand controls, an LS, and the thing was fast and he built it all himself, which was the exact same way I did my build.
No, we're doing good.
Halfway done.
So, you find a good dude in a chair and you're all got similar interests and stuff, you know, it's pretty tight.
Do you actually know who you're racing? I just found out it's a Ford GT.
- Ford GT? - Yeah.
I don't even know what a Ford G really does.
I mean, I know it's a V8 with a supercharger, so Yeah.
I think you're gonna kick its ass.
That's probably what I think - Let's see.
- with this thing.
- A 2006 - 2006 Ford GT Well, they're a $139,000.
- Yup.
- It's a 5.
4-liter V8.
550 horsepower.
You got just damn near as much horsepower with nitrous.
Three thousand, four hundred and eighty-five pounds.
So, he is pretty much on point, a thousand pounds heavier than me.
And I pooped today, so that's like another five pounds right there, dropping weight.
I'm a jockey.
Who you gonna be racing, Hannah? What do you think? - A Hellcat? - No.
- Demon? Porsche? - No.
- McLaren? Lamborghini? - No.
You're not talking about the Mustang G or the Mustang It's not a Mustang.
It is Ford.
- It's a Ford GT.
- Like the GT40? - Yeah, yeah.
- Interesting.
Interesting.
So, we have to get a few things set up.
We got to finish the cell in it.
Finish the tune-up on it.
Set the suspension and you'll be good, pumpkin.
You worried? - No.
- I know you're not.
There we go.
Do I have the whole thing by myself? I got to run a fuel line.
- Get that.
- And it's snug.
Give me a 5/8ths wrench and an 11/16ths.
What do we know about this car? What do we know about the '06? It runs, I believe, 11.
2 in a quarter-mile at 134.
Really? That's pretty decent.
That's decent for older car.
It's pretty good traction, zero to 60 is 3.
3, a 3.
5 depending, like, as well.
And 550 horse power, 500-pound feet of torque, and 3500 pounds so, it's pretty light car.
Wow.
So, it has almost 2000 pounds in its favor compared to us.
My goal is to take off the street tires, change plu spark plugs, putting fresh oil in, drain the 91-octane, put in the 85.
I'm not gonna make it easy for them.
I have a 40 here, I have a front here.
Wow, this is heavy.
These tires are a lot more stickier than the street ones.
So even though it gives us a higher potential to destroy the gear box, it's gonna allow us to accelerate a lot faster.
He's very focused, determined.
The thing with him, he really is a mad scientist.
Well, we need to lighten this thing up.
- Flip from here, right? - I am not sure.
- There we go.
- How heavy is that? - You guys got it? - Okay.
Where's it going? Are you nervous, Bisi? - I'm excited.
I'm not nervous.
- Are you really? You're such an optimist.
If he does get beat by a minivan, that would be kind of embarrassing.
What are you doing, just sitting there? I'm doing the most important thing, which is notes.
When I go into a race, obviously, I try to be as prepared as I can be, but in the last few years, I've been racing less than I'd like to.
In 2013, we were having an event, actually out of the shop in Valencia, and unfortunately, that was the day that Roger and Paul were killed.
Paul Walker, actor, heart-throb and car enthusiast, killed this afternoon when he and a friend were going for a ride in a sports car which crashed into a tree and burst into flames.
Yeah, I was I was the first one to arrive on the scene when Roger and Paul crashed.
So so, yeah, I remember it very vividly.
The car that crashed today, a Porsche Carrera GT, belonged to the owner of a high-end racing shop located around the corner from the crash.
I've had other experiences in my life that have been pretty gnarly.
That one was just so close to home.
I was always the risk taker.
Those guys weren't, by the way.
I was.
So, I was you know, driving too fast and going into canyons and doing all the stuff that I probably shouldn't have been doing.
So, it puts a lot of things in perspective when you lose friends like that.
It was a life-changing event for me.
Racing's dangerous.
When you're racing, particularly in close quarters, in this case, a drag race, a lot of different things can go wrong.
It's part of racing and ultimately something that you got to be prepared for.
Let me see Hannah.
- Either one either one is okay.
- Okay.
Get in the truck a minute.
Hold on.
Where are you gonna sit? Put this right here.
- When something goes wrong - This like this.
you only have one chance to collect yourself.
And sometimes, that chance turns into a half a chance.
Here which goes like this.
And I've trained her in safety, but she needs to be on her game.
Let me let me have Wait, wait Whoa, whoa, what, give me that.
Where's the where's the bracket for that one? Safety first with me.
There's a 4,000-pound car that's a piece of iron.
Like this.
There is no room for error.
My strengths would be, basically, horsepower to weight the fact that I'm on nitrous.
The nitrous gives me way more horsepower and we're gonna be moving.
So, I'm gonna have to come in a little soft.
Right when we leave, it'll be not even springing any nitrous, on full throttle and then probably within like three seconds, is you're gonna start progressively springing all the way up to 150.
Are you scared about the 150 shot? - I am.
- You are? Why? - We've never done over a hundred.
- We'll keep the wheels on it.
My whole goal was to have the front end done before we did anything over 100.
Just to make sure nothing comes loose going that fast, that quick, you know? - Yeah.
- She's paranoid.
I well, yeah, I love the truck, okay.
- Oh, you love the truck.
- It's the truck.
Yeah.
No.
I'd like to keep Corey around a little bit longer.
We'll have to do a test run tonight.
So, coming from a family of scientists has its perks, because I look at data.
I'm very data-driven, and use that data to my advantage.
When it comes to technology, that's really where I shine.
So, this is my volumetric efficiency map.
This determines the volumetric efficiency of the engine based upon how much fuel it requires.
This pointer shows a few parameters real-time.
That's extremely important to tuning your vehicle.
I have everything from hub RPM, which is the RPM that the wheel sees itself, to engine RPM.
And you'll see real-time the horsepower the car is putting out.
This is how you know how well tuned your car is.
This is how I know if my car makes 200 horsepower, seven hundred horsepower, or 1000.
It's extremely accurate and very sensitive.
I can turn the headlights on and see a difference in power.
The average supercar does hover in the 600-horsepower range.
This eclipses that by a full 400 horses.
When I roll up to the race day, people are gonna be shocked by its performance.
- I'm ready.
- This is for credibility, this is for street cred, this is for prestige.
Damn.
Damn.
Today we're testing.
Give it a good shake down, make sure everything is working good.
I just drive it there, change out the tires so that way it gets better traction.
Put them at 15 and then we'll we'll see what they look like visually.
I try to beat my best time I've ever had.
Look at that.
Technology.
Oh, we're good.
Here you go.
All right, I think we're ready to race.
When I pull up into staging, repetitively going over it, keeping yourself calm.
So that way when you go out there and the lights come down, it's just natural.
You don't wanna jump the gun right when that light's right where it needs to be.
You predict it and you go right on time.
The first test was on the slow side.
Breaking 100 miles an hour is pretty hard to do.
It spun a little bit, so I mean, it's hot.
It was 14 PSI and we're gonna try ten.
And now it's time to add nitrous to the mix.
I need to win, because I always do.
Watch out, the Odyssey is coming.
Motorsports is really a passion for me.
It's a chance for me to go out and compete, you know, at 45 years old, it's one of the few ways that I can still compete at that level.
So, this race is gonna be interesting, I guess.
I know some of these sleeper cars can surprise you.
Obviously, I like to win.
That light is everything, Hannah.
You just keep your eye on that top light.
When that thing goes off Does it look good? Is it important that we go out there and win a race? Absolutely.
I'm 100 percent ready.
I feel bad for anybody that has to go up against me.
There's really not much preparation in this thing.
It's just drop the fucking clutch and go, right? Somebody's got to win, somebody's got to lose.
That's just the game.
Babe, you wanna grab my chair? Let's take you to Car number two.
What the hell is that? No freaking way.
That's the Lunch Money truck.
I've seen them at Irwindale all the time.
- Oh, it's Maloof.
- Maloof.
- It's Hot Rod Hannah.
- Yup.
- Do you know those people? - Mm-hm.
- Super rich.
- Yeah, I know.
I think I know those guys.
- Which ones? - The guys that run the Lunch Money truck.
- Let the shit-talking begin.
- I love it.
What a beautiful day.
- Hey, man.
- How you all doing? - Good, man.
I'm Rob.
- Yeah, Sammy Maloof.
- It's very nice to meet you.
- Met him and your gal.
- Where's your gal today? - She's sitting in there.
Wonderful, man.
Beautiful.
- I'm so glad you guys are here.
- Gonna be a good race.
- How are you? Good.
- Hi.
How's it going? - Ready to show a Ford GT what's up? - Yeah.
Oh my God.
Is this the other sleeper? Oh, yeah.
Well, at least I'm not the least aerodynamic.
That sounds pretty good, though.
Okay - Okay.
- Laid out.
Yeah.
That's how we like to cruise.
Take your kids to soccer in that? There you go.
Oh, man.
- This thing a front-wheel drive? - Front-wheel drive, still yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Now, we're waiting on the supercar.
Uh-oh.
Here it is.
And then you got the Ford GT.
This is gonna be funny.
- There's the competition.
- Yup.
And he doesn't even really have a tire on it so that's good for us.
- What's up, guys? How's it going? - What's up man? How's it going? - How's it going? My name's Corey.
- Corey, what's going on? Is this your guys'? Holy shit.
- What about the - Minivan? - That's a what, 1,029 Horsepower? - Four wheel or front wheel? - Front wheel.
- Front wheel.
- Hmm.
- It's got a really nice tire on it but He should be almost 5,000 pounds.
Front-wheel drive, so it's gonna be really trying to pull the weight.
I don't know how I haven't seen this thing before.
- No worries, it's been around.
- What's underneath the - Under the hood? - Some really interesting stuff.
I'm sure.
By looking at the van, what is it gonna tell me? Nothing.
I mean, I can look at certain things and know that there's been big, huge modifications.
Very cool.
I want turbos.
I got the minivan by half of it and I think it's 5,000 pounds.
I'm 2,500.
I'm sure the pickup truck's probably 4,000.
Something like that.
And I got the supercar by 1000 pounds.
Manual gearbox, no traction control.
There's a lot of room for error.
Let's go look at the truck.
I bet you he keeps it closed.
Yup.
You don't get to see shit.
Pop the hood.
I wanna know.
I've never seen Hannah's truck before.
It's my first time.
You definitely don't know what's under the hood until you hear it.
The pickup truck, I don't know much about 'cause the guy won't let me get close to it.
He's very secretive, but when we get out there, I'm gonna win because that's what I do.
Wow.
I've seen a very nice variety of cars here.
From an old-school rat rod Hmm.
to a very, very well-put together pickup truck.
It looks really sleeper but the tire size, the compound on that vehicle, how it's set up.
There's something going on there.
More than meets the eye.
We got a brick.
You know, we got a building here.
You know, it's not the most desirable sleeper car.
The one that has the most disadvantage is the one that's the most insecure here.
Drivers, may I have your attention, please? We thank you guys for coming out.
What we're going to do is go out and walk the track.
Make sure you're comfortable with the track.
Let's race.
Race time.
It's the desert.
It's hot.
And then asphalt adds to that.
The goal for the day is not to run the truck, like as much as possible.
Let me see your gauge, bro.
Holy mackerel.
141.
5.
Turn up the boost.
I've never raced in these conditions.
Heat is always the enemy of performance.
Here's what I'm concerned about right here, Hannah.
None of that track matters over there.
What matters is right here.
Yeah.
There's a few rocks over here.
Kick them all off.
Get them off that road.
They're all a quarter mile long.
So, I think we'll be all right.
Let's just pray.
We pray for the drivers right now that they'll all be safe.
Father, we thank you that you got a hedge of protection around Hannah and all the drivers.
- Amen.
- Amen.
Burnouts are very crucial to a race.
If you can't get your car to hook up, then all that horsepower is wasted and working against you.
I think doing a burnout is gonna get my tires hot and slippery.
So instead of doing the burnout, we're gonna go with keeping the engine temp as cool as possible.
This is for street cred.
This is for prestige.
I need to win.
Because I always do.
It's what I do.
Hannah knows what she's got to do behind that wheel.
Winning is important to me.
I can do this.
Stay in my lane, stay out of trouble.
I have no idea whatsoever what's gonna happen.
Any of these cars could win it.
Winning it, would prove that me being in a wheelchair doesn't really matter.
Everybody ready? - Wow! She launched.
- Fuck yeah, Corey, get it.
That's sick.
She had him all the way.
I don't know what happened at the end.
Well good for him.
- Did you get it? - Yeah.
Fuck yeah.
- How did you do? - Third.
- You got third? - It was a good idea to not to not warm the tires up.
100 percent.
Good game plan, guys.
Hell, yeah.
I always win.
Even for me to even be last, I've never done that.
Lunch Money got first.
GT got second.
I'm not used to that.
- Good job.
- Thank you.
Yeah.
Well done.
That thing's fast.
Well, front-wheel drive.
- That was fun.
Yeah.
- Okay.
Thank you.
- Good job, guys.
- Well done, sir.
- Thank you very much.
- No worries.
No worries.
- You too, man.
Good job.
- Thank you, thank you.
It's fun.
- But - Have a look at my tire marks.
Time to go to the finale.
- Look at that.
- Yeah.
Soon as I got in into the nitrous, it just spun and spun and spun.
And I was just guiding the missile.
I just held it straight and figured I was going into the dirt, or through the flags.
And we went through the flags first.
I just happened to get just enough traction and I weigh less that it was just pushing me out in front of them.
I think one of the biggest challenges with my car and the other two, the van and the truck were just almost too much horsepower, right? So just goes to prove you can't change physics, ultimately.
Set of slicks, it would've had a better deal, but the import didn't beat you.
Mm-hm.
Look at that.
- Good job.
- Thank you.
Yeah, you laid some dark ones.
You ran clean and you ran a good race.
Before we get into the results, I want to give you guys a round of applause.
- It was outstanding.
- Thank you.
Outstanding.
All right.
So, we have first place, Corey.
- Attaboy, Corey.
- Nice job, nice job.
- Thank you, guys.
- Second place, Erik.
- Outstanding, very nice.
- Nice job, nice job.
Third place, Hannah.
- Did a wonderful job.
- Yeah! And fourth place, Bisi.
Thank you for coming out, so It gives me a lot of food for thought on what to do to optimize this setup for that type of racing, you know? So, I learned a lot, it's good.
I have good data.
It was pretty close.
It was real close.
It was.
I wouldn't have put my bet on the rat rod, but they did a good job.
I was a little nervous, but didn't really have much of a problem up against the competition so I was definitely proud to win, and prove that a garage-built hot rod could beat a supercar.
It's it's a good feeling.
Yeah, let's let's do it again.