[Engine Revving]
Ken Block out there driving a car you built.
- How does it feel? - It feels insane.
[Engine Revving]
I've got to ask the one question though.
Do you get scared?
If you're not scared, you're not going fast enough.
Okay. [Engine Revving]
I have a better question.
Now that you've got this thing, can we drive the Hoonicorn?
[Laughter]
[Music]
The Hoonipigasus is alive.
It's alive!
Finally, the moment we've been waiting for.
We get to hear this bad boy.
[Music]
- I get to hear it for the first time. - For the first time.
We've all been waiting for it.
I know he's been waiting for it.
We partnered with Mobil 1 to build the craziest Porsche 911
that probably ever existed.
Fully carbon fiber, all-wheel drive, makes 1,500 horsepower.
Ken gets to drive it up Pikes Peak.
I'd actually say it's one of the wildest
and most unique 911s ever built.
Two turbos.
It breathes meth and shoots fire.
What is it with this guy and meth?
I don't know. This guy's addicted to meth.
[Laughter]
[Music]
This thing just started for the first time hours ago.
[Engine Revving]
That's hot.
The funny thing is we did the launch event of the car,
the concept itself, and --
We launched a non-running car.
Yeah.
We had a launch date on the calendar
that we kind of had to do for certain reasons
but Porsche hadn't delivered the race engine yet.
But now, this is a couple weeks later,
we're at our first test, we're in Pueblo,
which is a bit south of Colorado Springs.
We're at elevation.
It's 4- or 5,000 feet here.
So, this is our first proper test to do
all the systems check, everything, today and tomorrow
we start actually pushing the car much harder.
But, today, Betim's doing a bunch of running in the car
to basically start the process of doing all the systems check,
making sure everything's working perfect
before I get in the car.
[Engine Revving]
Is that part weird? Seeing your car drive away?
Yeah, that is always a little weird.
Officer, he's stealing my car!
I got to ask the one question though,
I'm sure everyone else wonders.
Do you get scared?
Do you not have fear?
If you're not scared, you're not going fast enough.
Okay.
- All right. - Good answer.
Yeah, that works.
I have a better question.
Now that you got this thing, can we drive the Hoonicorn?
[Laughter]
It's forever going to be a no.
You got to shoot your shot.
Kobe.
[Chirping crickets]
Well, we're going to go watch your race car drive.
Just keep the Hoonicorn thing in mind.
- Yeah, think about it. - It plays really well in Forza.
- You don't have to answer now. - What would you do with it?
- I dunno, smash it. - Spit, don't smash it!
That's the wrong thing to say.
You blew it!
[Music]
[Engine Revving]
Maiden voyage.
We just did, I think, four laps
and we went over the brakes a little bit of suspension.
But, I mean, obviously, you can tell a little story
but you don't know what the car's really going to do.
It's still on cold tires, unbedded brakes,
but mechanically everything works, it shifts, it brakes, it turns,
it feels good, it's not surprising,
it's very comfortable to drive at this speed.
I mean, I'm sure it's going to be frightening with some horsepower.
But, right now, we're running at about 200 horsepower,
we're going through it, we're looking at the engine,
we're breaking it all in, running the CV axles in.
It needs a stiffer set up and we ran it high
in what we call service mode so it's all the way up.
So, just so I'm not taking, hitting anything
or ruining any carbon right now.
All in all, unbelievable.
Ken's going to be really, really happy.
[Music]
- You ready? - Yeah.
[Engine Starts]
[Engine Revving]
Ken Block out there driving a car you built.
- How does it feel? - It feels insane.
That's a little childhood dream
even though I'm not a child, I'm old,
but it is a dream no matter how you look at it.
You're also kind of delirious
because you didn't sleep for the last 40 hours.
Yeah, it's been a long run.
He's used to that though.
I don't like being used to that, okay?
I don't like being used to that, it's not endearing.
Yeah, but at least it's happening now
and not in two weeks.
- Yeah. - The day before the mountain.
No, this is great. This is awesome.
I can't wait for him to drive it tomorrow
when we just actually give it some boost.
Right now, 30% throttle, wastegates are wide open,
no shaft speed on turbos.
It's in vacuum still, so it's --
Well, 30% throttle so that'll probably make it 300 horsepower?
Not even that.
It feels it's making 150 horsepower.
It's cool, simple shakedown day, get this thing going.
I mean, BBi and Hoonigan Racing team doing all the science,
all the brain things to get this thing to work.
Tomorrow, we can go rip on it and not break it.
If this were regular Hoonigan,
we would have went out full tilt right off the bat, blew it up.
[Explosion]
- Breaking it in. - You've broken it in.
- Usually -- - I broke it it in.
You usually broken it in.
[Music]
Today was a slew of teething issues and learning new things
about the car that we didn't anticipate,
but it's making a little bit of boost now
so it's not 100 horsepower.
You can get through the revs.
Idea is for Ken to be able to just push it
a little harder in the corner
and actually feel what the chassis is doing
and so he can get an understanding
and then make a game plan for driving it when it's full power.
And then, the other thing is if everything goes well,
we'll put Ken in and simulate a hard 10-minute run.
I mean, we're going to be in the 8s, but a hard 10-minute run, Ken.
Hard 10-minute run with the hotter temperatures here
just to kind of stress test the whole system.
And, that's really what the job is today.
We need to see fuel consumption.
We need to see heat and what things are doing.
Right.
Doing one or two laps at a time doesn't simulate the mountain.
- Right. - Okay.
- Let's get after it. - Okay.
[Music]
[Engine Starts]
[Engine Revving]
That's not even full tilt.
That's nowhere near full tilt.
That's not even close to full tilt and that thing --
- Still sounds pretty spicy. - Yeah.
[Engine Revving]
On this tiny little track, it's doing exceptional
so we've only done a couple of little small changes,
slowly adjusting a few things and I'm just getting used to it.
It's great just getting a feel for what the car is doing.
The learning and the development is all here,
it's what we're set up for.
And, yeah, it's fun.
Car is moving.
That's positive.
That's good, we've started the process now
with adding performance and basically get some feedback
on the chassis side, so, pushing the tires,
see where they are.
It's the birth of the car really when you look at it
as an icon car.
Just working out all the problems and dialing out everything,
and hopefully then at the end of the day,
we see the light at the end of the tunnel.
[Music]
Hell yeah.
[Music]
[Engine Starts]
[Engine Revving]
Day one of driving the Hoonipigasus, how you feeling?
Good. A little nervous but good.
There's a lot of developments, there's a lot of sitting around,
there's a lot of stuff happening today
that I usually don't show up for --
Because this is early development.
Yeah, big shakedown.
We have a few issues with suspension setup
where the car is snap over-steering on me.
[Engine Revving]
Much better for that to happen here on a track
where there's sand around,
gravel around the track as opposed to on the mountain
where there's trees at the edge.
Yeah.
It's crazy because this car got put together,
unveiled, only rolled under its own power yesterday.
And, today, by the way,
we're shutting down now because there's a fire over there.
- It's been going for a minute. - Right.
And, the guy that was our fire marshal on site here
had to leave to go help fight that fire.
So, I said it was day one of you driving the car
but you actually got two or three laps in the car
with no boost or anything yesterday.
They gave you about 17 pounds or something like that today.
Yeah.
How big of a difference did that make?
It's a big difference.
I can actually go through the gears and go fast down the straightaway
and really lean on the car with the corners.
Starting to actually feel the brakes
and the tires actually get heated up and start really working.
And, it's actually nice to do that with this lower horsepower,
that's about 50% of the power we'll have once we start racing
as opposed to just being frightened with 1,400 horsepower.
- Right, right. - It's good to have seat time.
Seat time is king.
Yeah, that then looks like a lot of smart people
back there doing the thing.
So, I'm sure they'll get the car set up.
I mean, there's two laptops running hot right now.
[Pounding]
Well, yeah, see you on the mountain.
I can't believe he was telling us
he's going to let us drive the Hoonicorn.
Yeah, he said it, right?
He said it.
I ****ed up and I said I was going to smash it, but --
You couldn't help yourself.
I thought out loud.