Best built car in hill climb racing3/16/2024 ![]() What year is it? 1998? With the Integra nameplate back on the road and race track, it can be hard to tell. Pobst’s Insta posts showed a series of big-bump parking-lot testing runs at Pikes Peak International Raceway, so with that and, presumably, a tutorial on the touchscreen, Pobst has no excuses this year. Dark Helmet’s modifications include massive aero add-ons front and rear, Ohlins TTX 4-way coilovers, Unplugged Performance full suspension links package, carbon-ceramic brakes, carbon-fiber widebody, and 330/710-19 Yokohama A005 slicks. The Model S is the work of noted Tesla tuner Unplugged Performance, which is as close to an AMG or an M as Tesla’s likely to get. “I’m coming back with the Unplugged Performance Tesla Model S Plaid we call Dark Helmet,” Pobst announced on his Instagram. ![]() But here are some of the more interesting drives up the mountain.Īfter his unfortunate off two years ago, when racing great Randy Pobst flew over a bump and off the track not far from the summit, or last year when the windshield fogged up and Pobst couldn’t navigate Tesla’s complicated 17-inch touch screen to turn on the defrost, this year the 90-plus-pro-wins Pobst has a new car and a much better understanding of Pikes Peak’s wild whoop-dee-doos and Tesla’s sub-menus. While there are 70 entries this year, we haven’t met them all. Tech inspection is Tuesday, June 19, practice begins June 20 and runs through June 23, and the race is Sunday, June 25. In 2018 Romain Dumas drove a purpose-built VW I.D.R electric supercar prototype up the hill in a record-obliterating 7:57.148 and that figure has stood as an, “It’ll never be broken” mark since. ![]() In 2011, with 75% of the course paved, past winner Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima finally broke it at 9:51 in a Suzuki SX4. For years racers tried to break the elusive 10-minute barrier, coming agonizingly close many times. The whole course was paved by the end of calendar year 2011. ![]() The road started seeing asphalt in 2002, a process that took nine years. The “Race to the Clouds” started in 1916, and for the first 86 years it was run on dirt. Since the mountain rises 14,115 feet into the strato-cumulous, poking up through the atmosphere and catching whatever weather is passing by, you never know what’s going to happen. ![]() Just when you think your latest, greatest, highest-tech entry is going to win everything, it rains. Pikes Peak is never boring-and never predictable. ![]()
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