Remember The Insane Flying Tesla Model 3? It's Being Rebuilt For Pikes Peak

Perseverance is the name of the game. And we’ll see it shine on Sunday.

We are sure you must have seen the spectacular accident the “Flying Tesla” suffered while preparing for the PPIHC (Pikes Peak International Hill Climb). If you did not, we have exclusive new images that show how it was in this article, but it is not about that. This text is about perseverance: the Unplugged Performance team is running against the clock to rebuild the Model 3 in time for Sunday.

Kyle Conner, our man at the competition, brought the information to us in the tweet below.

As you can see, the team managed to buy a donor Model 3 to replace the damaged parts and make the Sunday run – the one that really counts. So far, we know they had to replace the entire front and rear subframes, including motors. The battery and chassis were fine, which is surprising in such a strong hit. The Unplugged Performance parts were so strong that most of them broke the stock components in the accident. We’ll try to get a complete list of all that had to be replaced.

Photo credits: @Teslaphotographer