{"id":97026,"date":"2014-08-05T19:17:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T02:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97026"},"modified":"2014-08-05T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T02:17:05","slug":"sports-car-video-jeff-zwarts-pikes-peak-run-with-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97026","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Video &#8211; Jeff Zwart&#8217;s Pikes Peak run with commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Every year racers from around the globe flock to Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado, including photographer, commercial director, and seven-time Pikes Peak champion Jeff Zwart. Since his record-setting run up the &#8220;hill&#8221; in 2010 in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car, a lot has changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Back then the course was a mix of pavement and gravel, and Zwart used Pirelli road-race rain tires to put the power down. In 2011, his weapon of choice was a bone-stock (except for safety upgrades) 911 GT2 RS, whose turbocharged motor made a reliable 620 horsepower the whole way up the mountain. In 2013 the course was fully paved, so Zwart brought back the Cup car from 2010&#8217;s run with two key upgrades: turbocharged power and racing slicks\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pca.org\/news\/2014-07-28\/video-jeff-zwarts-pikes-peak-run-commentary\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RzfThRiU_Bs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GU-pm1r4694?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year racers from around the globe flock to Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado, including photographer, commercial director, and seven-time Pikes Peak champion Jeff Zwart. Since his record-setting run up the &#8220;hill&#8221; in 2010 in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car, a lot has changed. Back then the course was a mix of pavement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,25,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car","category-sports-car","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97027,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97026\/revisions\/97027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}