Monster Tajima's Record Breaking Run Pikes Peak 2011

[BusyAfternoon]

Monster Tajima's Record Breaking Run Pikes Peak 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7VAJaZAV-gQ


Take a ride on the roof with Monster Tajima in our GoPro sponsored Suzuki Sx4 as he breaks his own personal record at Pikes Peak with a time of 9:51 and becomes the first person to break the 10 minute barrier!

Note the apparent total lack of spectator control, especially in the unpaved section on the outside of turns…lots more of the road is now paved than what I remember, that is a good thing for a fast run…

Big cojones to push as hard as he does on the sections with no guard rails and huge drop-offs!!!!

 

[mark197205]

Was a good run, though it didnt look that fast from the footage, at least to me, I think if they'd overlaid his speed onto it it would show it better.

 

[eyer]

Pffttt...

...some things should not even count when things become so sanitized.

Pikes Peak, home of the "Race to the Clouds", has been conquered so many times by one family from Albuquerque that is should only truly be referred to as Unser Mountain.

3-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser holds the win record for the Hill at 13; the original "King of the Mountain", Bobby's uncle Louis, registered 9 wins before him. Bobby's younger brother Al, one of only three men who've ever lived to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, won at the Mountain twice.

In all, 12 Unsers have undertaken conquering the Peak, with Bobby's youngest daughter Jeri setting a new record in an electric car in 2003; the Unser family has competed a total of 113 times at Pikes Peak...

...they've won 38 of those.

In fact, though, the Peak is named for Lt. Zebulon Pike who, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Great Plains, first saw Pikes Peak in 1806 from the eastern portion of today's Colorado in 1806. As he approached the magnificent peak, rising abruptly from the plains, Pike reportedly swore the 14,110-foot mountain would never be conquered by man...

...alas, it was first competitively conquered by man and machine in 1916 by 22-year old Rea Lentz driving the Romano Demon Special, the smallest car entered.

Here's a shot of Barney Oldfield in a Delage making his way up the Peak around the same general time - note that when the "Race to the Clouds" began, the path to the top was all dirt:

http://director.usacracing.com/ppihc/images/Barney_Oldfield.JPG

Here's a shot of the "King of the Mountain" himself, Bobby Unser, sliding his way to the very top in the Jaguar-powered Unser Special in 1956 - his very first Pikes Peak Hill Climb win - note again the absence of pavement:

http://image.fourwheeler.com/f/9821901+w750+st0/129_0504_06_z+porsche_cayenne_turbo+1956_old_photo.jpg

The 2011 Pikes Peak Hill Climb - from which the OP's vid is from - was the first Climb in history to be competed on a course totally now paved...