A big thanks to Mad Dog Racing for letting us enjoy and film this incredible build
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A racing bakkie? With a 12,000rpm redline? And a sequential gearbox? Yes, those are a bunch of words which aren't often seen together, but this is a truly special build which on paper doesn't make much sense, but in real life, is more than the sum of its parts.

Stephan Fouche at Mad Dog Racing had a dream to put a bike engine into a little Nissan 1400, and when the chassis and engine became available, he set to work. It took nearly 700 hours of work but here it is, a superbly built racecar unlike anything we've ever seen.

The naturally aspirated motor screams to the 12,000rpm redline in every gear. Getting used to a sequential gearbox took a lap or two for our video guy, Ciro De Siena, but once he got the hang of it, the bakkie absolutely blew him away.

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Bookmarks:
0:00 Intro
0:45 Speed Test Drive
1:34 Hand-built Quality
1:47 Engine Analysis
2:26 Bike Bakkie Modification process
3:20 Explaining the sequential box
4:45 Handling and grip
5:29 Downsides of the bakkie
6:03 Drift and oversteer
7:05 Outro