The Man, the Myth, the 1400-horse Porsche - Driven to Fail w/ Sam Smith, Ep 3 - Betim Berisha Driven To Fail with Sam Smith

What do you do when a dream isn’t working? Would you leave a big-league life behind for a chance to be happy?

Betim Berisha builds race cars out of Porsches. When he was young, he left a globetrotting job at Porsche Motorsport North America because Daytona and Le Mans and some of the fastest cars on earth didn’t seem like enough.

At first, that journey was risky and exhausting. It still is, except now Betim has won Pikes Peak multiple times and created one of the coolest indie speed labs in America. Last year, he designed and built Ken Block’s Hoonipigasus, a mid-engine, GPS-controlled, 1400-horse Pikes fever dream that nearly bricked the internet. When that car blew up on the mountain before its first run—when they couldn't fix it, world watching—Betim simply did what he always does: He went back to the shop and started over, thinking about what came next.

Driven to Fail is a podcast about what happens when things go wrong. What we do when life falls apart, and what we learn when we try to put it back together. Brought to you by the Hagerty Podcast Network.

Note: This episode was taped late last year, before Block’s tragic death in January.