100th Anniversary Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 2022

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Anyone ever attend, or better yet, receive an invitation and participate in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb?

"Colorado Springs, CO – It’s official! The milestone 100th Running of the Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, brought to you by Gran Turismo will take place on Sunday, June 26, 2022.

“We anticipate unprecedented interest from manufacturers, race teams and top-tier competitors,” stated Megan Leatham, Executive Director. “Pikes Peak is legendary in the motorsports world, it’s a racing venue like no other. Our 100th Running will be a perfect opportunity for drivers to bring their best game to Pikes Peak to cap the first 100 years of competition while ushering in a new century of racing on America’s Mountain.”

In 1916 Rea Lentz won the inaugural event in his Romano Special with a time of 20 minutes, 55.6 seconds. Fast forward to 2018 when France’s Romain Dumas set the current course record of 7 minutes, 57.148 seconds behind the wheel of the all-electric Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak."


Date for 2022 Race Announced - Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
 

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It was on my list to fly out to Colorado to go do this year but unfortunately I have a family member’s funeral to attend that day.

Maybe next year!
 

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Never been, I have always wanted to go but never enough to actually do it.
 

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I think it would be a blast to give it a go. Not sure I have the balls for it,
 

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I just drove to the peak during the last day of our Shelby event. I didn't get to drive fast, but it would take some nerve to actually race it.
 

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Like the older course when it was paved about 2/3rd of the way up then it was broken, dirt and paved and the last about .3 tenths of a mile, all dirt. Made for a lot hairier racing and thinking that was for sure.
I thought it was partially dirt at one point, but I don’t pay attention to it at all anymore. Was there always guard rails back then?
 

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I thought it was partially dirt at one point, but I don’t pay attention to it at all anymore. Was there always guard rails back then?


Not really the only thing I remember back in the 90's was those hay bales that had advertisement wraps on them as the only thing preventing you from doing a major excursion.


 

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Have a family friend (David Donner) running a new Porsche 911 Turbo S in stock class. He's won the event in several classes and overall several times over the years.


His brother was killed durring a race in the '90s, hitting a deer. His uncle Buster was on the event board and best friends with my uncle. My late uncle Fred sponsored cars several years in the 90s via his company IFR Systems. He picked the number, 2 after his old Hockey number "The Dirty Deuce" as he called it.
My cousin and I have this one in our garages, his is fancy/framed... mine is good for a poster that's 30 years old, hung in the open in rooms and a few garages.

I'm so thankful the 10min mark was broken the year before they paved it. Nobuhiro Tajima in a Suzuki in '11 running unlimited at 9:51:58 , his old recoord was 10:01 in '07. He's raced it since '88. He deserved it, so much energy, time and focus invested nearly 2 decades in making it up under 10.
The current record is 7:57.158 by an electric VW. We've likely seen the end of ICE powered cars setting records. The electric cars will likely hold the title for the foreseeable future.

But sadly, it's not the same as it was, used to be you could watch from anywhere, and move through the day. Now you are pent up in one of a handful of spectator areas.
I haven't been since that.
Then of course the Sierra club forced it all to be paved. The only thing keeping them from running F1 type cars up are the paved roads like to break and buckle over the course of hours not even a day. Heaves appear, especially up past the tree line, places where you screw up and end up in Manitou Springs, the higher you go the more likely they are to occur.

There's a video a Randy Pobst testing in the summit section. in a hopped up Tesla 3 hitting one in a breaking zone for a hard right turn called "botomless pit". He made an off course excursion into into the dirt the cut the switchback from at 40mph.
"botomless pit."

He's finally running a S Plaid this year, just qualified earlier today. I'm told it was moving.
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My co-worker was up until about 2yrs ago was a corner marshal for ~10-15yrs. He often invited me up, but I never really wanted to be up at 13,000 ft the entire day with limited ability to get back down when I wanted.

I’ll typically go to Fan Fest, which is held in downtown Colorado Springs (in fact, I plan to go tomorrow but that may conflict with watching my AVS take the Stanley Cup).

Several of our local racers (SCCA and NASA) have run it and my former Crew Chief is up there right now as a crew member supporting a Shelby.
 

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Ken Block's out:

"It takes a seriously special Porsche 911 build to impress the internet these days, but that's exactly what Ken Block and Hoonigan created with their 1,400-horsepower racer. It's mid-engined, for starters, and wears a bespoke widebody that's just as extreme as its twin-turbo flat-six powerplant. The entire effort was organized to take on this year's running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, but after an unfortunate valvetrain failure forced the car to miss qualifying, it'll have to wait until 2023."


 

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