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Description: The Suzuki Escudo Dirt Trial Car was a monster machine purpose-built for this race The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Constructed on an aluminium space-frame designed completely from scratch, it was equipped with a fully tuned 2.5-litre twin-turbo V6 pushing 981 BHP with a maximum torque of 687.1 lb-ft. It was also driven by a man who was called a monster, Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima. A master of dirt tracks with 7 All Japan Dirt Trials Championship wins in a row, he would first challenge Pikes Peak in 1989, and then go on to become the first Japanese overall winner in 1995.
