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Cornfield near an airport. arizona. a former professional motocross athlete taking first place in his division at iron man, arizona. that's despite a serious crash 8 years ago that paralyzed him from the chest down. >> ricky james is on the water. this is the second full length iron man of the year. he also won several truck races using hand controls to drive. some of the best video gamers in the world facing off in the donkey kong championships in november.led on 16 machines. the winner took home $2,000 prize and is part of a fox watch across america. i'm shepard smith. it's on like donkey ko...

America was going to go to war and we needed new programs and services to take care of our newest generation of heros. to seat freedom tower going up now t speaks to american resilient. >> you are almost 10 years into your organization. war on terror maybe going on now for 11 to 12 years. what -- is the need now? what are you seeing in the soldiers who are returning today. maybe versus what you saw in that first wave of soldiers who are returning? biggest thing now is the reintegration. reintegration and mental health treatment as a double amputee told me i can get prosthetics and hand control...

On a level playing field. my visit came during testing ahead of the latest round of the britcar championship. aaron morgan is one of team brit's two drivers in the endurance event, driving an aston martin gtii. aaron became a wheelchair user in 2006 following a motocross accident. the disabled drivers on the team use control systems developed by engineers in—house. these are completely sort of bespoke, completely developed from the ground up by team brit. they and the other engineers within the team said, right, we've got this problem, this is what we need to achieve, and this is the solutio...

Is autistic and the car remains drivable by him in the usual way as the adaptations coexist alongside the regular controls. hand controls per se aren't new — i use them to drive my car — but these are quite different to what you might find on a road car as they're tuned for a racing environment. but a racing team is more than just the drivers and building systems like this into already finely tuned machines isn't a straightforward process. and so, you obviously work with different iterations of these controls. how does that process work and how did you get to where you are now? well, first...