the Pikes Peak Hill Climb..What an Event!!

My favorite motorsports event. What an amazing race..with sheer cliffs and a road that begins paved and changes to dirt. Many different classes of vehicles including motorcycles and even diesel semi's race up this mountain to an elevation of over 14,000 feet. These two videos put you in the drivers seat as they hurtle up the mountain at speeds over 100 m.p.h.

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), also known as the The Race to the Clouds, is an annual automobile and motorcycle hillclimb to the summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado, a distance of 19.99 km (12.42 miles) over 156 turns, climbing 1,439 meters (4,721 ft) from the start at Mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway at 2,862 meters (9,390 ft) on grades averaging 7% over both gravel and paved sections.