Nobuhiro ‘Monster’ Tajima returns to the 90th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, assembling a new electric vehicle in hopes of breaking the world record time he set in 2011 while raising ‘climate change’ awareness.
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Sebastien Loeb dominated the qualifying run for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, where he was almost five seconds per mile quicker than the nearest competitor.
Loeb completed the 5.1-mile qualifying run in 3m26.728s, 23 seconds ahead of Romain Dumas, who was driving a Norma prototype in the unlimited class, which includes 13 cars this year.
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Jeff Zwart isn’t really sure but says he’s probably covered around 1400 competitive miles at Pikes Peak since his first race outing there in 1989. Given that the course is 12.42 miles, that’s a lot of trips up the world’s most famous hillclimb.
A businessman working in television media, Zwart got into Pikes Peak through work, albeit indirectly. “We did a lot of TV commercials for car companies, and one of the stunt drivers we used was Rod Millen. Me and Rod used to have a lot of fun together on jobs, just screwing around with rental cars and so on; then at one point in the late 1980s, he said to me, ‘You know, you’re pretty good at this. You should give it a go properly.’ … Pictures and more