Pikes Peak
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The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb has become an important proving ground for electric cars, and it is here that Volkswagen will be looking to flex its EV muscles. It has just revealed an all-electric racer built with one goal in mind, to finish the world-famous mountain race in record time.
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The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb is a rare opportunity to compare a range of electric and internal combustion racers on the same course. Although battery-powered entrants have impressed in recent years, they were few and far between this time round, making 2017 a win for old-school technology.
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Fledgling electric vehicle maker Faraday Future will be running a Beta development FF 91 ("nine one") in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb as the first in a series of public tests designed to help bring the production version of its all-electric SUV to market in 2018.
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Bottpower's XR1R is an American-style flat tracker from Spain built from an American legend (Erik Buell's XB12) that was built from another American Legend (Harley-Davidson's Sportster 1200). With more than 150 hp and less than 150 kg to shift, it should be a mad little racetrack carver.
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Victory successfully contested the Centennial Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with the electric Empulse RR and the Project 156 concept. With wins at their respective classes, Electric and Exhibition Powersports, they managed second and third place in the overall motorcycle classification.
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Rhys Millen won Pikes Peak last year, but didn't meet all his goals. Millen wanted to complete a run in under 9 minutes, but the best his electric eO could manage was 9:07.222. This year he broke that barrier, but was beaten to outright honors by Romain Dumas in a petrol-powered Norma.
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Electric vehicles were the story at last year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, with the eO PP03 beating out the Rimac E-Runner for a 1-2 electric finish. Rimac and Nobuhiro Tajima are teaming up again and hoping to come out on top.
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As proven last year, electric cars are tough to beat up twists and turns of Pikes Peak. Honda will certainly be hoping e-power is a winning formula when it takes on this year's Race to the Clouds in three versions of the new NSX, one of which will be exclusively powered by batteries.
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When Victory ran its Project 156 concept bike in the Pike's Peak Hill Climb earlier this year, a lot of rumors started floating around that it was more than a one-off race entry. The company has put those rumors to rest with the introduction of the Ignition Concept bike at the EICMA show.
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Electric cars have taken out the top two spots at the 2015 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, with Rhys Millen's eO PP03 beating Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima's Tajima Rimac E-Runner Concept_One to become the first ever all-electric winner of the race.
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Lexus has revealed the sporty race car that it will task with tackling the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this weekend. Not to be confused with the RC F GT3, the all-new RC F GT concept car loses close to 800 lb (363 kg) when compared to its production sibling.
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The 99th anniversary of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb will see a dedicated mobile app for the event available for the first time. Available for mobile devices running Apple’s iOS 8.2 or later, the app will provide heaps of customizable information before, during and after the race.
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