Japan’s Nobuhiro Tajima won his fourth consecutive Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on Sunday, but a loose track kept him from achieving his goal of breaking the 10-minute mark.
Tajima finished with a time of 10:15.368—a few seconds faster than his winning time from a year ago. But it was well short of the record of 10:01.408 he set in 2007.
A trio of European rally car champions were expected to challenge Tajima and the elusive 10-minute barrier at this years 87th running of the “Race to the Clouds,†the nation’s second-oldest race behind the Indianapolis 500.
Two-time world rally champion Marcus Gronholm had engine trouble and finished second at 11:28.963. He finished the race with the right rear tire of his Ford Rallycross Fiesta in flames…Â Details