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The Birth - His
real name is Thorn Severniak.
He grew up in Siberia, a predecessor of an Uzbek rebel
and an Irish P.O.W. His parents, political prisoners captured
by the Red Army met and died in exile on the Trans-Siberian
railroad construction, close to Yakutsk. Natasha, Thorn’s
mother died while giving birth to him in an unheated shack
close to the railroad construction site. His father, Collin,
a tough Irish soldier, who was once a race car navigator,
raised him while building Stalin’s railway and digging
up mass graves for his enemies. |
TS grew up with his father’s stories about the rallies
he used to participate in before Ireland’s ruling IRA
party pronounced him a public enemy. “Your papa was only
a navigator,” he used to say. “One day, you will
be a real race car driver, Thorn.” TS believed in that
and went to sleep every day with the thought of winning many
big car races when he is big enough to reach the gas pedal.
By the age of 5, TS knew Russian, Georgian, Uzbek, and English
with an Irish accent.
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The Rebellion - A
progressive group of young boys, all members of the Komsomol
headed by Thorn listened regularly to the forbidden “Voice
of America” radio station, using a radio set in
the local post office. The boys made plans on how to escape
from Yakutsk. The group was betrayed by its own device,
however. A teacher in the boys' school found their notes
about the previous night's broadcast of the Voice. The
Militia came and captured everyone but one. A boy managed
to escape after stabbing two officers to death. That boy
was Thorn. |
Following the accident, Thorn’s comrades were sentenced
to life in prison due to their young age. His father was tortured
until he lied about his son’s whereabouts. He was then
buried alive in the mass grave he had been digging for the past
two days.
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The Escape - Thorn
raced through the tundra for 5 days, driving a stolen
government-owned Volga, stopping only to pump up gasoline
from abandoned and almost dry oil wells. That was his
first but certainly not last car race. On the 6th day
he reached Vladivostok where he got on a commercial ship
and sailed to Beijing as a sailor to pay his fare. In
Beijing, after unloading the goods his ship carried, Thorn
was instantaneously incarcerated for 8 months as the ruling
Chinese Communist Party suspected he was one of Stalin’s
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His physical strength and stamina saved him, however, as he
endured many physical encounters with other inmates for entertainment
of the prison guards. In 8 months, TS was the sole survivor
on his prison floor. The Chinese prison destroyed his ability
to experience feelings and emotions but it couldn’t kill
his DREAM. He was going to be a race car driver one day and
he knew it.
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The Prison -
After 8 months of life-and-death battles in the Chinese
prison, due to his stamina, Thorn was selected to be one
of the captives to take part in the annual car races organized
in honor of the Great Chinese ruler Mao Tse-Tung, along
with 29 other American, Karakachan, Georgian, Uzbek, and
Chechen prisoners of war that had already been sentenced
to death. Winning the race was the only way to get out
of it alive. The race route started in China’s Forbidden
City, passed by the Great Chinese Wall and ended in Guangzhou,
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capital of the Guangdong province where the hearts of the 29
losing racers were going to be presented to Emperor Mao as tournament
trophies. The race cars they used in the race were custom-made
Corvettes with 380 HP, 5.7 Liter V8 engines, all contraband
from the United States. The cars were never washed and were
all covered with the blood of the losing drivers in the past
year’s race. For a Chinese communist leader, Mao possessed
a frighteningly American red-blooded sense of humor and he enjoyed
watching strong, healthy men kill each other year after year.
He invented the rules of the race and if a player deviated even
slightly from them, the government surrendered him to the other
players as free points. The goal was to race to Guangdong and
kill all other rivals by ripping their hearts off while they
were still beating. The trophies were to be collected, stored
in bags, and presented to the Emperor at the end of the race.
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“Tork”
- At the time of his first race, Thorn
was known as “Tork” among his fellow prisoners.
Chinese prisons were famous for the fact that they never
gave their inmates any food and let them catch their
own prey.+ Legend had it that all Tork ate while in
prison were jail rats spiced with magic Tork Shou Heong
Tea leaves that he was able to cut off a tea tree through
the window bars of his cell. Those leaves were believed
to give the ones who eat them eternal life. After 8
months on the rat diet, Tork won his first Mao Death
Race and his freedom, |
running over all 29 of his rivals with his bloodiest ever red
Corvette. But it was all business to him; he had nothing personal
against the other contestants… except for his car’s
tires, of course. Saving his life cost him his left eye and
his left hand, up to the shoulders. The loss of body parts desensitized
Tork’s left side completely and made the right half of
his body stronger and bulkier.
The news about Tork’s success soon made it across the
Pacific and the Atlantic and got into the ears of Formula 1,
NASCAR, and other race sponsors and aces. From a prisoner, Tork
quickly became a world renowned race car driver with multi-million
dollar racing offers from all parts of the planet. Money was
the last thing he cared about, however. It was his dream and
his father’s will that kept him going all this time. He
was used to killing to keep his life. Commercial racing and
fame did not thrill his troubled mind. Killing and winning,
for TS, was not only the sole means of survival, it was a way
to reach excellence in life and be Number 1. It took an extraordinary
race to win his interest. That race was the U.S. Deadly Dungeon
001 rally, where the final score matters and the death toll
doesn’t.
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Half Human Half Machine
- After winning his first race in North
America, erasing a few more race car drivers from the
face of the Earth, and losing another couple of limbs,
this modern day hero proceeded to take over many more
car races across the globe. Africa, Europe, South America,
and even New Zealand were in his feet. The car race
audiences across 5 continents changed Tork to “Torque,”
due to the way he raced. His new steel feet did not
feel the weight of his Vermacht boots. Torque’s
facial features had to be covered by a leather mask
because they were hardly recognizable anymore. |
His Siberian eyes and Irish forehead were heavily concealed
by multiple scars and bruises. After each crash (and there wasn’t
just one), Torque was fitted with a new mechanical device to
help him win the next race. His right mechanical arm had as
much electronics in it as a helicopter engine and let him shift
gears in 0.2 seconds. The numerous mechanical additions and
alterations to his body made it hard to think of him as human.
All those gadgets that were installed in his torso and the remainders
of his limbs earned his name a suffix. Constantly changing and
evolving, Torque was now known as “Torquenstein,”
the Steel Monster. The bionic arm and legs he carried were as
cold, firm, and fearless as his heart, and as powerful as his
vindictiveness towards everyone who got in his way.
All the glory, money, and fame gave Torquenstein no rest or
serenity. They were paid for with too much blood and too much
horror. Horror in the eyes of an Uzbek devochka giving birth,
an Irish man falling in a grave, and many, many nameless inmates
and race fighters across the world who dared to face his Monstrosity,
TORQUENSTEIN.
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Torquenstein’s
Newest Race - Today, Torquenstein is
still winning the maddest, deadliest races in the world.
TS is one of the 150 race drivers who will be competing
in the Gumball 3000 Tournament this May. This year,
you can see Torquenstein on TV for the first time and
observe him while he runs over his 149 opponents with
his new 700 HP Hennessey Venom 650R throughout the UK,
France, Spain, and Morocco. Watch Torquenstein defend
his chilling name and title in this rally starting in
Paris on May 4th, 2004 and ending in Cannes later that
month. He will let no one stop him… Do YOU have
the guts to look at Torquenstein’s face? |
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