Pikes Peak Hill Climb

[nisils14]

that wreck is insane. Who would of thought he'd walk away from that. Good roll cage!

Holy Shit

[RCCrawler]

My red/white/blue RX-8 is running in it with Bill Caswell driving. I may be able to upload some video from practice later.

Bill decided to withdraw from the race for his own reasons. I did not agree with it but understand his reasons.

Just found this, makes sense.

http://jalopnik.com/5934725/how-pike...ive-ever-raced

[spyder]

I wish... Just don't have the cash.

[funkymonkey1111]

Here's the view from Foley's car

[HoneyBadger]

Shepard Smith interviews the drivers: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/shepar...ylist_id=86928

[babirl]

here's the over-the side crash

Hadn't realized they had that bad of day on the mountain... Glad all are OK and sounds like the little girl hit during practice is OK.

Dallenbach's crash was plain scary and could've been a disaster.

Been years since I've been back (Dad ran the PPHC in the early 60s and been a few other times).

Any thoughts on paved to the top? I'm sure speeds/acceleration are much improved but it's way less forgiving.

[CapLock]

When I was a kid in California a car came up for sale that my friend ended up buying. It was a 1971 Formula 400 firebird...I think..haha. I know it had a 400 ci motor. It had a little plate on the dash board that said Pikes Peak 1971 1st place. At that time none of us even knew what or where Pikes Peak was. Wonder if that was for real and what class it would have been in? Bought the car for 3,500 dollars.

We being stupid kids got in it to drive the 30 miles back to where Mike lived. I think the speedo went to 140 and we buried it on the way home after being in this used car for about 20 minutes. Were all lucky to be alive.

Also fastest car I've ever been in belongs to a guy named Cameron out in Larkspur. Bright Yellow 900 hp Vet. Top speed was something like 204 mph. We didn't go nearly that fast.
If I were in the passenger seat of the car in the video posted my ass would have eaten a hole clear through the floor board. That would be one scary ride.