Successful Pikes Peak Climb Onboard Driver View

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Enter the SendyCar, a ground-up build with very few off-the-shelf parts. One piece carried over from another car is the central tub of a Tatuus Formula 4 car, a low-level open-wheeler designed mostly to train drivers transitioning out of karts before they make their way up to the faster end of the open wheel racing ladder.

Behind it is that 2.3-liter engine–a custom block built by Synergy but derived from a BMW S1000 RR engine. A Borg-Warner 92-74 adds some serious punch, bringing sea level output up to about 850 hp. Shute estimates that this number is still going to be in the "high seven hundreds" even at Pikes Peak. He estimates that the long block weighs around 130 lbs and adds that it all spins at 13,000 rpm.

Combine that engine with a chassis that weighs 1300 lbs before factoring in fuel and a driver and you have a car that Shute says will accelerate at a force of 2 g, even from 100 mph. It produces over 1100 lbs of downforce at the same speed, although that quoted calculation is at sea level and the car will be running at altitude this weekend.

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Anyone figure out when he hit the marmot during his run?

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