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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.14.2012 - 11:02 am
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A 14,115-foot mountain in Colorado, this track is home to one of if not
the most legendary hill climb in all of motorsports. The Pikes Peak
International Hill Climb is 12.42 miles and 156 turns of wild action
held each summer.

For many years the hill climb had the interesting layout of starting on
pavement and then switching to dirt for the second half of the course as
drivers raced to the top of the mountain. That ended after a lawsuit by
the Sierra Club, an enviromental group from San Francisco, CA, led to
the road being entirely paved in 2011.

The track is listed here on r-r.info because the USAC Indycar guys raced
as one class at the event for a few years in the 1960s. Can you imagine
today's IndyCar doing a hill climb or what basically equates to a rally
stage?


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  08.02.2018 - 4:37 pm
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The last major circuit series to race for points at Pikes Peak was the
IMSA Bridgestone Supercar Championship in 1995; however a low turnout
and the teams that did come mostly borrowing other, cheaper cars meant
that idea floundered after just one attempt. With Pikes Peak now being
paved all the way up one wonders if any other series might give it a go
now.

In recent years the Pikes Peak Hill Climb has become a real
boundary-pushing event with lots of manufacturers showing up to show off
experimental, often electric-powered racers.


  3.   Unser1 posted:
  07.31.2019 - 10:49 am
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This event is, rather accurately, nicknamed "The Race to the Clouds."


  4.   @statscrash posted:
  03.16.2020 - 12:25 am
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Unfortunately you'll never see Indycar there again, I mean they are
scared to race on ovals, or anything interesting.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.16.2020 - 8:48 am
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Both Pikes Peak and modern IndyCars is so much faster now, especially
with the hill climb being paved all the way, I'm pretty sure safety
means they would never try it. There's some very big corners with very
big drops on this course and going off one in a small carbon fiber
IndyCar is likely not a survivable proposition.


  6.   possum posted:
  03.16.2020 - 6:46 pm
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@5 - hmm, last year's overall winner was a Wolf TSC, a carbon fiber
monocoque car not all that dissimilar from an Indycar (granted, it does
have a full rollcage). If that car was permitted, I don't see why an
Indycar wouldn't be, if someone wanted to try.


  7.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.16.2020 - 6:57 pm
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People have run IndyCars up the Peak in the modern era, check out some
of the wild dirt tired ones used in the 1990s with extra big wings, in
some classes but I can't see IndyCar itself using this as a sanctioned
event. The only major American series to have a hill climb on its
schedule in recent years is Robby Gordon's Stadium Super Trucks which
did the 19-mile Mike's Peak Hill Climb in Mexico.


  8.   possum posted:
  03.17.2020 - 7:00 pm
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@7 - Yes, I agree Indycar wouldn't sanction it as an event in their
series - running against a clock instead of head-to-head on a track just
isn't their thing.


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