Ride along with Rod Millen in the Hyundai Genesis Coupe setting the 2011 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 2WD Time Attack World Record.
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Have you ever seen somebody learning to drive in a 458 Italia? The lucky guy driving the car was very much taking lessons in the Italian supercar – that’s one way to start!
It was a car designed to mark its maker’s centenary – and so it seems fitting that a Ford GT smashed a world record with the help of a futuristic coating.
Johnny Bohmer topped 223mph (now 252.97mph), from a standing start and over a single mile, on the runway of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The speed his car, which can legally be used on the road, reached was  … More
PPR Ford GT World’s Fastest Production Car in the Standing Mile at the Top Gun Run Event driven and own by Johnny Bohmer of Performance Power Racing in West Palm Beach, Florida
Sixty-one year old motorsport legend Nobuhiro ‘Monster’ Tajima, almost certainly the oldest world class athlete competing in any sport today, won his sixth consecutive Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on Sunday, at the same time as breaking the long standing 10 minute barrier for the course which rises 1.5 kilometers from start to oxygen-starved finish. Nissan’s electric LEAF established a new electric car record for the course and Ducati’s “four bikes in 1” Multistrada defended its 2010 win with a new record too  … Pictures and more