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Sebastien Loeb annihilates the pikes peak record
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:06 am
by Zozobra
Absolutely terrifyingly fast
Spunked on the old record by a minute and a half!
http://www.redbull.com/en/motorsports/s ... eak-record
Re: Sebastien Loeb annihilates the pikes peak record
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:46 am
by Dickarms
thats awesome
Re: Sebastien Loeb annihilates the pikes peak record
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:24 pm
by Harvest
To be fair to Rhys Millen, this is the first year that the whole course has been paved, allowing for slick tires and the whole car to be set up with more downforce and lower center of gravity.
Loeb still crushed it though - there was a video from earlier in June for their testing and he was almost a minute slower than his run last weekend.
Re: Sebastien Loeb annihilates the pikes peak record
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:13 am
by Zozobra
I'm not up on the history of the course but damn, the in car shots were scary quick!
Re: Sebastien Loeb annihilates the pikes peak record
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 3:46 pm
by Harvest
Red Bull just posted Millen's run from this year, he ran a 9'02":
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnTkneFqHy8[/video]
Re: Sebastien Loeb annihilates the pikes peak record
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 4:53 pm
by RSBro
I saw that and it was pretty badass. Seb Loeb is going to be driving a McLaren 12C GT3 in FIA GT series this year. Should kick most ass.
Re: Sebastien Loeb annihilates the pikes peak record
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:07 am
by Axe
Pike's Peak trivia...
In July 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote the song "America the Beautiful", after having admired the view from the top of Pikes Peak. A plaque commemorating the words to the song was placed at the summit.
On July 17, 1913 William Wayne Brown drove his car, the Bear Cat, twenty miles to the summit. The ascent took 5 hours and 28 minutes.
In August 1976, Tom Miller pushed a peanut to the top of Pike's Peak
using his nose.
The ascent took him 4 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes and 3 seconds.
Re: Sebastien Loeb annihilates the pikes peak record
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:19 am
by TurboPablo
My favorite Pikes Peak vid....
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-K1B4sTX4o[/video]