I love seeing an underdog car kicking ass when it isn’t supposed to. This little white Ford Escort is one of those machines. On the outside, it’s a clean 1990s Escort GT. Other than being too clean for it’s own good, there’s no reason why this car should be as fast as it is. No, that’s wrong. There is a perfectly logical explanation why an otherwise unloved hot-boy rental machine from the Nineties is able to kick the teeth in on a Rolls-Royce Wraith without breaking a sweat. That’s the owner, who has been tweaking, tuning, refining, breaking and rebuilding this car with each and every pass, each and every broken part. That’s the hours spent studying data logs after each pass to see if there was a fluctuation or an error. There’s the days spent mending broken parts and every single solitary lap down the track being turned into a learning experience. That’s how an overrated Mazda-sourced front-driver is now one of the wildest little screamers we know of right now.
Hard work pays off, kids.
