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Pikes Peak 2014 Race to the clouds

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  1. tomgt

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    Balls of Steel!
     
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    Pikes Peak isn't what it was before getting all paved and guardrails and Loeb setting a record no one is going to touch for a long time. Done it twice as a codriver. Mt Washington, Climb to the Clouds, that is where the brave hillclimb now.
     
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    Don't say that, to my friend Brianne Corn....:D :D :D
     
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    Michèle Mouton @ Pikes Peak to Bobby Unser- "If you have the balls you can try to race me back down as well."
     
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    I still remember my first drive up the Peak back in the early 1970's and constantly moving around to shift the weight when the drop-off got to close :D. It may have changed but it is still a great event in my opinion.
     
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    Wow. Didn't realized it was completely paved at this point.

    Audi should run an R18 up Pikes Peak just for fun.
     
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    Yeah, heard about that.

    Chatting w/ the bikers at Pikes Peak a year I did it I told one that they were crazy racing up w/o a cage. His response was if he was about to go over edge he could jump off whereas us drivers were strapped in.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3RxOpGNYA]Jeremy Foley Crash: Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 2012 - YouTube[/ame]

    Mt Washington is much more technical; a road two grocery carts wide, w/ blind crests, jumps and bumps, off camber, multiple surface changes, no guardrails whereas Pikes Peak is wide, flat, single surface w/ guardrails.

    Posting this video because it shows the suspension movement because video doesn't do the crests, bumps and camber any justice.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGamGjGPw]Audi Super Chicken, Mt. Washington Hillclimb 2014 - YouTube[/ame]

    Besides, Carroll Shelby held the record back in 1956 driving a Ferrari. How cool is that?
     
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