Kicking your racecar especially a 914 is Verboten ¡ Driver running out of talent (been discussed on various forums ) reminds me of a carpenter blaming his hammer for a bad looking piece of furniture.

Good point—but I'm not gonna say the photographer wasn't a contributing factor without seeing another 2-5 seconds of footage on the front end of this. Of course, it's still on the driver, but...I am not sure that wouldn't have caused me a bobble if I saw the bystander doing what that one did out of pure concern for his life—and my sleep that night.

My neighbor (Mann) runs this spec built Lister (Beck carbon body) and is 1/2 of the Knoop/ Mann Lister team. It's an 800hp n/a LS based engine, placed front-mid in a tube frame. This car runs all sorts of venues (vara, NASA, Goodwood, etc) including PPHC. There is mostly 99% asphalt paving now at Pikes Peak and lots of grip.
Rick Knoop and Julian Mann are experienced road racers , but the hillclimb is a handful. Not lots of practice time allotted either...more going on down in the town below with pre-race parties and such photo credit Dean Kirkland Click to view attachment

Check THIS out!

SERIOUS skills!!

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ken-bloc...-in-climbkhana/

Mr. Block is a serious top of the line drifter, so this kind of stuff is child's play to him.
Way over most of our heads for sure, but easy peasy for these kinds of guys to do.
They live in a different universe than most of us.

To mix metaphors---
It's more fun to drive a 914 at 9/10ths than it is to drive a spec built Lister at 5/10ths.

...but man that Lister is pretty...

I don't honestly know if that is true but I would rather drive THAT Lister than 99.9% of the teeners I have ever seen - at least at speed. Impressive looking vehicle!

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It's always been more of a consolation than an assertion anyway, right?