The intensity is heating up in THON’s new, phenomenal event, “Car Race.” It pits the two sides of the Bryce Jordan Center against each other — two car banners, red and blue, start in the stands on opposite sides of the arena and race as spectators crowd-surfed them to the center Section 114 across from the main stage.

Red Car won the inaugural race early Saturday morning, but Blue Car redeemed itself with two close victories to take a 2-1 lead.

Red was done with losing after those defeats and absolutely slaughtered Blue to tie up the series once again. Blue Car struggled out of the gates, then went backwards at one point — there’s no coming back from that.

Red Car took Blue Car to the woodshed in Race 4. We’re all knotted up, 2-2, in this intense series. pic.twitter.com/3cSi9g5trr

— THONward State (@THONwardState) February 18, 2018

The first three events had been held during floor mopping sessions, but race four was the first to break that trend. The new event is sweeping with popularity in the BJC, so we’d bet on seeing at least a tiebreaker in the next couple of hours.