Posts Tagged ‘Pikes Peak’

Tajima’s Pikes Peak World Record? – Final Edit

Saturday, August 20, 2011 13:18 by Arman Barari No Comments

We sure featured Monster Tajima’s awesome world record run at this year’s Pikes Peak challenge, and you sure watched it a thousand times. But here’s the final edit released by GoPro, featuring footage from different angles captured by 10 onboard GoPro cameras. It really gives you a sense being there with Tajima as he drives [...]

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Jeff Zwart’s Porsche 911 GT2 RS Pike Peak Run [Video]

Saturday, July 9, 2011 14:49 by Arman Barari 3 Comments

Finally Porsche released a video of Jeff Zwart’s actual Pikes Peak run at the 2011 event in a GT2 RS. Before this they were all talking about how he drove 1,770 kilometres from California to the start line in this stock 911 GT2 RS. At the race Zwart set the record for the fastest street-legal [...]

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Video: Race Car Falls Off Pikes Peak

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 13:37 by Arman Barari No Comments

Here’s some terrifying footage of driver Bobby Regester falling down the Pikes Peak hill after he lost control of the car before entering a corner. And what a corner! Just look at it in the film. It is scary driving at 10 mph there, let alone 100 mph. Bobby falls down the cliff violently, but [...]

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Nissan LEAF Wins Pikes Peak Electric Production Class

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:42 by Arman Barari No Comments

Nissan LEAF electric vehicle made it up to the Pikes Peak hill in 14 minutes 33 seconds to win the Electric Production Class. Read More… It took the LEAF that time to cover the 12.42 mile run which is not bad at all for a car with top speed of 90 mph. Save the tires [...]

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2011 Pikes Peak: Tajima Breaks 10-minute Barrier

Monday, June 27, 2011 13:11 by Arman Barari No Comments

Nobuhiro ‘Monster’ Tajima managed to climb the Pikes Peak hill in 9:51.278, shattering his own record of 10min 1 second set in 2007. Read More… The Pikes Peak veteran and his purpose-built 900-bhp Suzuki SX4 ruled ruled the hill at this year’s event, while the other opponents, also aiming for the 10-minute mark, didn’t even [...]

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1,300hp Open Wheel Racer Targets Pikes Peak Record

Friday, June 17, 2011 17:55 by Arman Barari No Comments

It’s that time of year again when a bunch of insane petrolheads equipped with very very fast cars start preparing for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb Challenge. We showed you Rhys Millen’s Hyundai and now check this out, Paul Dallenbach’s open wheel racer. It’s got a monstrous biturbo system from Banks Power which gives it [...]

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Video: RMR Hyundai Genesis Prepares For 2011 Pikes Peak

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 17:02 by Arman Barari No Comments

This time Rhys Millen is confident of breaking the 10-minute barrier at the 2011 Pikes Peak Hill Climb Challenge in the Unlimited class, in his thoroughly updated Hyundai Genesis PM580. The V6-powered purpose-built race car has been extensively tested and Millen has spent a great deal of time fine-tuning the car, in order to finally [...]

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