Pikes Peak footage...probably the best footage in the world

Midnight_EG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOEoyA5k8g

Could it get any closer? 10 minute mark broken by 'The Monster' also!

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/07/how-the-monster-beat-the-mountain/

Plug

I thought it was going to be caravan/sulky racing for a sec!

vibe666

Plug wrote: »

I thought it was going to be caravan/sulky racing for a sec!

pikie's peak, racing horse drawn caravans? that would be epic! :pac:

unkel

Here's the whole climb filmed from the cockpit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VAJaZAV-gQ

I'm no regular viewer of these kinda clips, but I do remember Ari Vatanen doing Pikes Peak in a Peugeot 405. Back then there was no road or any safety barriers, just a dirt track :eek:

Alanstrainor

It was going to be posted sooner or later, but yeah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSrDD3tcibU

ottostreet

Watched both videos in full last week after the record was beaten. A large amount of time can be said to have been made up from there being more paved sections on the climb now, but either way, the last 3 minutes or so are terrifying!

I do think Ari Vatnanen's run is the more...unbelievable though. Majestic.

n97 mini

BLUE alloys. Jeez, there's no accounting for taste...

Midnight_EG

n97 mini wrote: »

BLUE alloys. Jeez, there's no accounting for taste...

With 910 horsies under your bonnet you can have any colour wheels you damn well like!

n97 mini

I don't care what colour they are as long as they don't embarrass me!

Midnight_EG wrote: »

With 910 horsies under your bonnet you can have any colour wheels you damn well like!

So if you had a Veyron blue wheels would be ok!?!?

Midnight_EG

Seeing as you ninja'd, Ill answer twice

n97 mini wrote: »

I don't care what colour they are as long as they don't embarrass me!

So your opinion has now changed on the colour of the wheels?

n97 mini wrote: »

So if you had a Veyron blue wheels would be ok!?!?

I've made my opinion on the Veyron clear many times, I'd never drive one...but if I had to, then no...blue wheels wouldn't bother me.

n97 mini

Ninja editing is fine when you come up with something better to say.

Midnight_EG wrote: »

I've made my opinion on the Veyron clear many times, I'd never drive one...but if I had to, then no...blue wheels wouldn't bother me.

So... if you had a Veyron, you'd have blue wheels without any bother?

Midnight_EG

n97 mini wrote: »

So... if you had a Veyron, you'd have blue wheels without any bother?

Of course I would

n97 mini

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Of course I would

Good luck with those!

rabbitinlights

I was lucky enough to see that Peugeot of Ari Vatanen blat up Goodwood hill on Sunday...



It was proper fast.

S

unkel

Alanstrainor wrote: »

It was going to be posted sooner or later, but yeah!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSrDD3tcibU

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! That's what I mean!!!

savagecabbages

From next year on the course will be entirely tarmac, Pikes Peak will never be the same again...

Greyfoot

Alanstrainor wrote: »

It was going to be posted sooner or later, but yeah!

All time favourite there...

Speedway

The tarmac can still throw up some surprises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVdS8Qnvb8

gofaster_s13

Drove up Pikes peak a few years ago in a rental(the ranger post half way up where they measured your brake temps was a bit surreal), all I can say is that anyone who can drive it like that is a Grade A, Bona Fide hero in my eyes, as for the blue wheels, if he can drive like that he has earned the right to paint the car to look like Barney the Dinosaur if he so wanted.