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Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

Location	Colorado Springs, Colorado USA 38°50′N 105°02′W / 38.84°N 105.04°W / 38.84; -105.04
First race	1916 (1916)
Distance	12.42 mi (20 km)
Circuit information
Surface	Tarmac (historically, dirt)
Turns	156
Lap record	7:57.148 ( Romain Dumas, Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak, 2018, Unlimited)

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), also known as The Race to the Clouds, is an annual automobile hillclimb to the summit of Pikes Peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. The track measures 12.42 miles (19.99 km) and has over 156 turns, climbing 4,720 ft (1,440 m) from the start at mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway, to the finish at 14,115 ft (4,302 m), on grades averaging 7.2%. It used to consist of both gravel and paved sections, but as of August 2011, the highway is fully paved; as a result, all subsequent events will be run on asphalt from start to finish.

The race is self-sanctioned and has taken place since 1916. It is currently contested by a variety of vehicle classes. The PPIHC operates as the Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb Educational Museum to organize the annual motorsports event.

History

Early history

The first Pikes Peak Hill Climb was promoted by Spencer Penrose, who had converted the narrow carriage road into the much wider Pikes Peak Highway.

The first Penrose Trophy was awarded in 1916 to Rea Lentz with a time of 20:55.60. In the same year Floyd Clymer won the motorcycle class with a time of 21:58.41. In 1924 the final Penrose Trophy was awarded to Otto Loesche in his Lexington Special. In the years following, Glen Scultz and Louis Unser shared a rivalry and won the event 12 times between them. In 1929 the popular stock car class was added to the event.

Following World War Two, Louis Unser returned to his winning ways at Pikes Peak, winning three more times between 1946 and 1970; these wins were tightly contended with rival Al Rogers. During this time the event was part of the AAA and USAC IndyCar championship. In 1953, the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) sponsored the event, bringing with it an influx of sports cars. In this period the course record was broken every year from 1953 until 1962, this is the largest string of record breaking runs in the event's history. The majority of these records were set by Louis' nephew, Bobby Unser. In 1954 motorcycles returned to the event, the first time since its inception in 1916. The motorcycle overall victory that year went to Bill Meier riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

In 1971 the event was won by the first non-gasoline vehicle (propane), this was also the first overall victory from the stock car class (1970 Ford Mustang), the car was driven by the Danish-American Ak Miller.

European involvement

In 1984 the first European racers took part in the PPIHC with Norwegian Rallycrosser Martin Schanche (Ford Escort Mk3 4x4) and French Rally driver Michèle Mouton (Audi Sport quattro), thereby starting a new era for European teams in the almost unknown American hillclimb. While Schanche failed to set a new track record due to a flat right front tire, Mouton (together with her World Rally Championship co-driver Fabrizia Pons from Italy) won the Open Rally category but failed to win the event overall. Mouton achieved the overall victory and course record of 11:25.39 in the following year.

In 1989, an award-winning short film about the 1988 event was released by French director Jean-Louis Mourey. The film, titled Climb Dance, captured the efforts of Finnish former World Rally Champion Ari Vatanen, as he won the event in a record-breaking time with his turbocharged Peugeot 405 Turbo 16.

Paving of the highway

The City of Colorado Springs began to pave the highway in 2002 after losing a lawsuit against the Sierra Club, which sued on account of erosion damage to streams, reservoirs, vegetation and wetlands downstream from the 1.5 million tons of road gravel deposited over several decades. The local authority paved approximately 10% of the route each year after the order. The 2011 event was the last race with dirt sections, comprising approximately 25% of the course.

During this evolutionary period of the event, the Japanese driver Nobuhiro Tajima with Suzuki cars scored 6 overall victories (2006–2011) and two course records. His 2011 record was the first to break the 10 minute barrier.

Hill Climb champion Rod Millen warned at the time that paving the road would put an end to the race. However, the 2012 race saw over 170 racer registrations by December 2011, compared with 46 at the same time the previous year.

The 90th running of the event happened in 2012 and saw a larger field and a longer race day than ever before. This was the first time the race has been run on all asphalt leading to the breaking of several records, notably the overall record, which fell numerous times during the event finally falling to Rhys Millen, the son of previous event winner Rod Millen, in the Time Attack Division. During the event Mike Ryan spun his big rig in a hairpin in a section called the "W"s, hitting the guard rail, he then managed to execute a three-point turn and continued on course, at which point he broke his old record by 5 seconds. This highlighted the change that a fully paved course made to the speed of the event. The 2012 event also saw the first motorcycle to achieve a sub 10 minute time with the late Carlin Dunne in the 1205 Division riding a Ducati with a time of 9:52.819 which was only 1.5 seconds slower than the previous year's overall record.

2013 saw the nine-minute barrier shattered by WRC legend Sébastien Loeb (Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak), with a time of 8:13.878, while Rhys Millen ended up second with 9:02.192, beating his own record by more than 44 seconds. Jean-Philippe Dayrault finished third with a time of 9:42.740, and Paul Dallenbach fourth with a time of 9:46.001, making it four drivers to beat the overall record set only the previous year.

Emergence of electric vehicles

Electric cars have featured on and off in the PPIHC since the early 1980s. In 1981 Joe Ball took a Sears Electric Car to the top in 32:07.410, in 1994 Katy Endicott brought her Honda to the top in 15:44.710 and in 2013 Nobuhiro Tajima broke the 10 minute barrier with a time of 9:46.530 in his E-RUNNER Pikes Peak Special. In the following years electric entries would become more common, steadily breaking their powertrain records and eventually the overall record in 2018.

Although the 2014 event was won by a gasoline powered car; second (Greg Tracy), third (Hiroshi Masuoka) and fourth (Nobuhiro Tajima) places overall were taken by electric cars. In 2015, electric cars placed first (Rhys Millen) and second (Nobuhiro Tajima) overall. In an interview with Rhys Millen, he said that he had lost power to the car's rear motor pack before the halfway point. Had this not happened he had expected his run to be 30 seconds faster. In 2016 gasoline again took top honors but electric completed the podium taking second (Rhys Millen) and third (Tetsuya Yamano) as well as fifth (Nobuhiro Tajima) places overall.

At the 2018 event, an electric car set a new overall record for the first time in the event's history as Frenchman Romain Dumas completed the course in the all-electric Volkswagen I.D. R with a time of 7:57.148, breaking the 8 minute barrier for the first time.

The death of motorcyclist Carlin Dunne during the 2019 race forced the organization to postpone all motorcycle racing at the event. This decision was reviewed following the 2021 running of the event, and motorcycle competition was subsequently discontinued.

Racing divisions

The Pikes Peak International Hill climb currently consists of six divisions.

Unlimited

Any vehicle is allowed in the Unlimited Division as long as it passes safety inspection and meets the PPIHC's general rules. The Unlimited Division features the most exotic vehicles, most of them built specifically for this race. These race cars have the best chance of setting a new overall race record. In 2018, Romain Dumas set a new record of 7 minutes 57.148 seconds in the all-electric Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak, beating Sébastien Loeb's previous record by over 15 seconds.

Time Attack 1

A division for production based two- and four-wheel drive vehicles. Only closed cockpit four-wheeled vehicles are allowed to participate.

Porsche Pikes Peak Trophy by Yokohama

Making its debut at the 2018 event was the first official one-make Porsche category, exclusive to the Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport in four variants — Clubsport, Clubsport Trophy Specification, Clubsport MR, and Clubsport 2017 IMSA GS.

Open Wheel

The traditional Pikes Peak single-seater race cars with designs ranging from Indy style sprinters to dune buggies. Open-wheel cars have competed in every event since the inaugural race in 1916.

Pikes Peak Open

Production based vehicles with unlimited permitted modifications.

Exhibition Class

In keeping with the mission statement of the event, specifically to "demonstrate advancements in the practical application of motor sports technology", the race encourages competitors with vehicles that do not meet the technical specifications of PPIHC sanctioned divisions to enter in the Exhibition Class. While there are no class records for this class because of its exhibition status, entries are eligible for recording an overall course record as well as an attempt at records achieved by former classes.

Race records

Below follows all currently recognised records. Records set during the most recent running of the event are in bold type.

Division and class records

Non-division and class records

Records from the appendix of the PPIHC Rule Book
Type	Year	Name	Vehicle	Time
Production Truck	2024	Gardner Nichols	2024 Rivian R1T	10:53.883
Production SUV	2018	Rhys Millen	2018 Bentley Bentayga W12	10:48.902
Time Attack 2 (Production)	2023	Rhys Millen	BMW M8	10:12.024
Vintage Car	2017	Spencer Steele	1995 PVA 2	10:25.989
Sidecar	2016	John Wood & Matthew Blank	1999 Shelbourne Superlite F2	11:26.644
Vintage Motorcycle	2012	Marc LaNoue	1969 Triumph Bonneville	12:39.782

Alternative fuel records
Fuel	Division/Class	Year	Name	Vehicle	Time
Electric	Unlimited	2018	Romain Dumas	Volkswagen I.D. R	7:57.148
	Exhibition	2024	Dani Sordo	Hyundai Ioniq 5 N	9:30.852
	Pikes Peak Open	2023	Romain Dumas	Ford Supervan 4.2	8:47.682
Diesel	Exhibition	2023	Gregoire Blachon	Radical SR3 Diesel	10:25.071
Natural Gas	Open Wheel	1993	Johnnie Rogers	Wells-Coyote	11:50.090
Propane	Exhibition/PPO	2012	Randy Schranz	2012 Shelby Cobra	11:11.218
Turbine	Open Rally	1981	Steve Bolan	Bolan-Allison	15:27.180
Hybrid	Time Attack 1	2020	James Robinson	2019 Acura NSX	10:01.913

Drivetrain records
Drivetrain	Division/Class	Year	Name	Vehicle	Time
Front-Wheel Drive	Pikes Peak Open	2018	Nick Robinson	2018 Acura TLX A-Spec	10:48.094
Rear-Wheel Drive	Unlimited	2018	Simone Faggioli	2018 Norma M20 SF PKP	8:37.230
All-Wheel Drive	Unlimited	2018	Romain Dumas	Volkswagen I.D. R	7:57.148

• There is 7mm:70 s:032 between the first and the last stopwatch

Winners

The overall honours have always fallen to vehicles in car divisions, however motorcycles have their own divisions, records and winners. Cars have entered the event every year since its inception in 1916 (with the exception of years during the world wars) whereas motorcycles have only entered in a limited number of years.

Overall winners

Overall winners can compete under any division, although the majority come from the open wheel and more recently the unlimited division. A time in italics indicates this was a previous course record, a time in bold indicates the current course record.

Table of overall winners

Year	Winner	Vehicle	Time	Notes
1916	Rea Lentz	Romano Special	20:55.600
1917–1919	No competition due to World War I
1920	Otto Loesche	Lexington Special	22:25.400
1921	King Rhiley	Hudson Special	19:16.200
1922	Noel Bullock	Ford Special	19:50.900
1923	Glen Shultz	Hudson Essex	18:47.000
1924	Otto Loesche	Lexington Special	18:15.000
1925	Charles H. Myers	Chandler Special	17:48.400
1926	Glen Shultz	Stutz	18:19.400
1927	Glen Shultz	Stutz	18:25.100
1928	Glen Shultz	Stutz Special	17:41.600
1929	Edward Phillips	Shultz Stutz 8	18:22.800
1930	Glen Shultz	Stutz DV-32	18:08.700
1931	Charles H. Myers	Hunt Special	17:10.300
1932	Glen Shultz	Shultz/Stutz Special	16:47.200
1933	Glen Shultz	Stutz DV-32	17:27.500
1934	Louis Unser	Stutz Special	16:01.800
1935	W.P. Bentrup	1935 Chevrolet 1+1⁄2-ton Truck	26:12.000
1936	Louis Unser	Shultz Stutz	16:28.100
1937	Louis Unser	Stutz DV-32	16:27.300
1938	Louis Unser	Loop Cafe Special	15:49.900
1939	Louis Unser	Snowberger Special	15:39.400
1940	Al Rogers	Joe Coniff Special	15:59.900
1941	Louis Unser	Burd Special	15:35.200
1942–1945	No competition due to World War 2
1946	Louis Unser	Maserati	15:28.700
1947	Louis Unser	Maserati	16:34.770
1948	Al Rogers	Coniff Special Offenhauser	15:51.300
1949	Al Rogers	Coniff Special	15:54.260
1950	Al Rogers	Coniff Special	15:39.000
1951	Al Rogers	Offenhauser	15:39.700
1952	George Hammond	Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser Special	15:30.650
1953	Louis Unser	Federal Engineering Special	15:15.400
1954	Keith Andrews	Joe Hunt	14:39.700
1955	Bob Finney	Dick Frenzel Special	14:27.200
1956	Bobby Unser	Unser Special	14:27.000
1957	Bob Finney	Dick Frenzel Special	14:11.700
1958	Bobby Unser	Unser Special	13:47.900
1959	Bobby Unser	Unser Special	13:36.500
1960	Bobby Unser	Unser Special	13:28.500
1961	Bobby Unser	Unser Special	12:56.700
1962	Bobby Unser	Unser Special	12:05.800
1963	Bobby Unser	Chevrolet 327	12:30.600
1964	Al Unser	Offenhauser	12:24.500
1965	Al Unser	Harrison Ford	12:54.300
1966	Bobby Unser	Chevrolet	12:23.800
1967	Wes Vandervoort	Chevrolet	12:46.300
1968	Bobby Unser	Rislone Special	11:54.900
1969	Mario Andretti	Chevrolet STP Special	12:44.070
1970	Ted Foltz	Chevrolet 303	12:41.100
1971	Ak Miller	1970 Mustang	14:18.600
1972	Roger Mears	Volkswagen 2180	13:26.840
1973	Roger Mears	Volkswagen 2180	12:54.790
1974	Errol Kobilan	Sprint Chevrolet 302	12:54.770
1975	Orville Nance	Chevrolet 327	12:36.650
1976	Rick Mears	Porsche 2386	12:11.890
1977	Bob Herring	Chevrolet 350	12:15.720
1978	Errol Kobilan	Chevrolet	11:55.830
1979	Dick Dodge Jr.	Hoffpauir Wells Coyote Chevrolet	11:54.180
1980	Ted Foltz	1970 Chevrolet 350	12:15.810
1981	Gary Lee Kanawyer	1976 N-D Porsche	12:03.960
1982	Bill Brister	Woziwodzki Wells Coyote Chevrolet	11:44.820
1983	Al Unser Jr.	Woziwodzki Wells Coyote Chevy	11:38.300
1984	Bill Brister	1981 Wells Coyote	11:44.490
1985	Michèle Mouton	Audi Sport Quattro S1	11:25.390
1986	Bobby Unser	Audi Sport Quattro SL	11:09.220
1987	Walter Röhrl	Audi Sport Quattro E2 Pikes Peak	10:47.850
1988	Ari Vatanen	Peugeot 405 Turbo 16	10:47.220
1989	Robby Unser	Peugeot 405 Turbo 16	10:48.340
1990	Robby Unser	Unser Chevrolet	11:32.860
1991	David Donner	Donner-Dykstra Chevrolet	11:12.420
1992	Robby Unser	Unser Chevrolet	10:53.870
1993	Paul Dallenbach	Davis Chevrolet	10:43.630
1994	Rod Millen	Toyota Celica AWD Turbo	10:04.060
1995	Nobuhiro Tajima	Suzuki Escudo	7:53.000
1996	Rod Millen	Toyota Celica	10:13.640
1997	Rod Millen	Toyota Celica	10:04.540
1998	Rod Millen	Toyota Tacoma	10:07.700
1999	Rod Millen	Toyota Tacoma	10:11.150
2000	Larry Ragland	2000 GMC Envoy	11:17.660
2001	Gary Lee Kanawyer	1981 Wells Coyote	10:39.760
2002	David Donner	1997 Donner Dykstra	10:52.300
2003	Paul Dallenbach	2000 PVA-01	11:34.700
2004	Robby Unser	Subaru Impreza STI	11:47.280
2005	David Donner	Donner/Dykstra Special	11:15.680
2006	Nobuhiro Tajima	Suzuki Escudo	7:38.900
2007	Nobuhiro Tajima	Suzuki XL7	10:01.408
2008	Nobuhiro Tajima	Suzuki XL7	10:18.250
2009	Nobuhiro Tajima	Suzuki SX4	10:15.368
2010	Nobuhiro Tajima	Suzuki SX4	10:11.490
2011	Nobuhiro Tajima	Suzuki SX4	9:51.278
2012	Rhys Millen	Hyundai Genesis Coupe	9:46.164
2013	Sébastien Loeb	Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak	8:13.878
2014	Romain Dumas	Norma M20 RD-Honda	9:05.801
2015	Rhys Millen	eO PP03	9:07.222
2016	Romain Dumas	Norma M20 RD-Honda	8:51.445
2017	Romain Dumas	Norma M20 RD-Honda	9:05.672
2018	Romain Dumas	Volkswagen I.D. R	7:57.148
2019	Robin Shute	2018 Wolf TSC-Honda	9:12.476
2020	Clint Vahsholtz	2013 Ford Open	9:35.490
2021	Robin Shute	2018 Wolf GB08 TSC-LT-Honda	5:55.246
2022	Robin Shute	2018 Wolf TSC-FS-Honda	10:09.525
2023	Robin Shute	2018 Wolf TSC‑FS-Honda	8:40.080
2024	Romain Dumas	2024 Ford F-150 Lightning SuperTruck	8:53.563

Motorcycle winners

Motorcycle winners can compete under any division, although the majority come from open or large displacement classes. A time in italics indicates this was a previous motorcycle record, a time in bold indicates the current motorcycle record.

On June 30, 2019, four-time Pikes Peak International Hill Climb winner Carlin Dunne was killed in a crash at the race. He crashed less than a quarter of a mile from the finish line.

Table of motorcycle winners

Year	Winner	Vehicle	Time	Notes
1916	Floyd Clymer	Excelsior	21:58.410
1917-1953	No motorcycle competition was held.
1954	Bill Meier	Harley-Davidson	15:34.100
1955	Don Tindall	Harley-Davidson	16:08.600
1956-1970	No motorcycle competition was held.
1971	Gary Myers	Husqvarna	15:11.960
1972	Steve Scott	Bultaco	15:13.470
1973	Rick Deane	Triumph 750	13:56.030
1974	Bob Conway	Yamaha 750	13:54.570
1975	Rick Deane	Triumph 750	13:54.620
1976	Rick Deane	Triumph 750	13:12.610
1977-1979	No motorcycle competition was held.
1980	Lonnie Houtchens	Yamaha 750	13:44.730
1981	Brian Anderson	Triumph 750	13:20.860
1982	Arlo Englund	NA	13:19.280
1983-1990	No motorcycle competition was held.
1991	Brian Anderson	Wood-Rotax 600	13:24.820
1992	Brian Anderson	Wood-Rotax	12:54.000
1993	Clint Vahsholtz	Wood-Rotax	12:29.380
1994	Clint Vahsholtz	Wood-Rotax 600	12:21.130
1995	Clint Vahsholtz	1992 Wood-Rotax	09:17.100
1996	Davey Durelle	1988 Wood-Rotax	12:33.730
1997	Davey Durelle	1988 Wood-Rotax	12:21.960
1998	John Stallworth	1987 Yamaha Banshee 430	12:52.370
1999	Lonnie Eubanks	Yamaha	12:42.190
2000	Bobby Parr	LSR Lightweight	12:37.860
2001	Bobby Parr	LSR	12:09.160
2002	Bobby Parr	Lone Star	12:30.000
2003	Bobby Parr	Lightweight	12:28.480
2004	Davey Durelle	Honda CRF	12:27.810
2005	Micky Dymond	KTM	12:12.614
2006	Gary Trachy	Husqvarna SMR	11:46.841
2007	Davey Durelle	2005 Rotax	11:41.756
2008	Davey Durelle	Aprilia SM 550	11:42.991
2009	Davey Durelle	Aprilia SXV	11:48.649
2010	Gary Trachy	TM 660	11:33.700
2011	Carlin Dunne	2011 Ducati Multistrada 1200	11:11.329
2012	Carlin Dunne	2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200	9:52.819
2013	Carlin Dunne	2013 Lightning Electric Superbike	10:00.694
2014	Jeremy Toye	2013 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R	09:58.687
2015	Jeffrey Tigert	2014 Honda CBR1000RR	10:02.735
2016	Bruno Langlois	2015 Kawasaki Z1000	10:13.106
2017	Chris Fillmore	2017 KTM Super Duke 1290 R	9:49:625
2018	Carlin Dunne	2018 Ducati MTS-1260 Pikes Peak	9:59.102
2019	Rennie Scaysbrook	2018 Aprilia Tuono V4 1100	9:44.963

See also

• Mont Ventoux Hill Climb, started in 1902
• Silverstone Race to the Sky (now the longest gravel hill climb in the world)
• Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb (one of the oldest motorsport events in the world)
• Giants Despair Hillclimb and Rest and Be Thankful Speed Hill Climb, both started in 1906
• Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race (one of the oldest auto races in the United States)

Notes

1. ^ Electric
2. ^ Rookie
3. In 1935 there was no official competition, however there was a recognised truck test.
4. In this year the event was run as a non-championship event of the American Automobile Association National Championship
5. ^ In this year the event was run as part of the American Automobile Association National Championship
6. ^ In this year the event was run as a non-championship event of the United States Auto Club National Championship
7. ^ In this year the event was run as part of the United States Auto Club National Championship
8. ^ The event was run on a shortened course.
9. ^ In 2002 it was decided that the road should be paved, completion was due before 2012. By the time of the 2002 event the first mile of the course was paved, a total of 6%.
10. ^ In 2003 the first mile of the course was paved, a total of 6%.
11. ^ In 2004 the course was 21% paved. The paved section comprised the start line until Halfway Picnic Grounds.
12. ^ In 2005 the course was 21% paved. The paved section comprised the start line until Halfway Picnic Grounds.
13. ^ In 2006 the course was 35% paved. The paved section comprised the start line until Halfway Picnic Grounds and the section between Glen Cove and Double Cut.
14. ^ In 2007 the course was 46% paved. The paved section comprised the start line until Halfway Picnic Grounds and the section between Glen Cove and Devil's Playground.
15. ^ In 2008 the course was 46% paved. The paved section comprised the start line until Halfway Picnic Grounds and the section between Glen Cove and Devil's Playground.
16. ^ In 2009 the course was 46% paved. The paved section comprised the start line until Halfway Picnic Grounds and the section between Glen Cove and Devil's Playground.
17. ^ In 2010 the course was 57% paved. The paved section comprised the start line until Halfway Picnic Grounds, the section between Glen Cove and Devil's Playground, and the last mile.
18. ^ In 2011 the course was 76% paved. The paved section comprised the start line until Halfway Picnic Grounds and the section between Glen Cove and the summit.
19. ^ From 2012 onwards the course was fully paved.

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External links

• Official Website
• All Time Kings of the Mountain (1916–2022)

• Hillclimbs
• Sports competitions in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Pikes Peak
• Rally America
• Motorsport in Colorado
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