Motorsports: Pikes Peak Hill Climb

I think the Pikes Peak Hill Climb should get more attention. Yea, I know they paved it, but it just made it faster and more technical.

Seemingly quietly in the world of motorsports, a privateer team just took home 3 out of the 4 last Pikes Peak Hill Climb trophies. What's impressive is that the car is homebuilt and not manufacturer/company/corporate backed. The group of amateur engineers and technicians call themselves The Sendy Club (TSC) and the driver is Robin Shute. They win against big corporate backed teams in a Wolf TSC.

For 2022, they had a big fire in practice, causing them to rewire the harness and troubleshoot gremlins. Then they set the fastest time ever in qualifying for a privateer team, a RWD car, and ICE power (#1 is VW sponsored electric fan car from few years back). Race day was weather impacted.



Weather often impacts runs. This year was snotty at the top. Here is the winning run this year, remember there are no braking or corner markers . It starts to gets hairy from 5:20 mark onward.

2022 Pikes Peak winning run (wet, icy, and foggy) VIDEO LINK

There also seems to be several humorous storylines of Tesla racers not being able to put up good times on race day due to not being able to navigate touchscreen for defrost/defogging.