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Sun 26 Jul 2009 11:23
Pikes peak - Altea Ego
Pikes peak is a big rally cross style race in the USA for those that have never heard of it.

It was run last weekend, and Marcus Gronholm now retired from WRC had a crack at it. Due to lack of oxygen (they think) at high altitude the turbo on his Fiesta exploded (at the time he was blitzing the course record) and filled the car with smoke, he pressed on with 4 km to go using left foot braking to keep what engine revs he had up, and when he finally completed the course, the overheated brakes caused the tyres to explode in flames.

He came second in class

Here is one of the the highest quality (sound and picture) motorsport clips I have seen on youtube of gronholm on the peak (not the actual race it seems, probably setting pace notes, but none the less its stunning film)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8nptFx1jug

and here is a cult fim of Ari Vatanen in 1990 doing the peak in a pug 405 t16.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=edLnXzAwHVc


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Sun 26 Jul 2009 11:34
Pikes peak - Andrew-T
Pikes peak is a .. race in the USA for those that have never heard of it.


Who takes part if none of them has heard of it, AE? :-)
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Sun 26 Jul 2009 11:37
Pikes peak - Pugugly
Oh leave him alone ! - he did say for "THOSE that have never heard of it" implying that some (including the orgnanisers, drivers etc - actually had ! :-)
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Sun 26 Jul 2009 11:38
Pikes peak - Altea Ego
oh ha ha
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Sun 26 Jul 2009 16:19
Pikes peak - bell boy
in that second video (2 mins before anything happens) he has faulty steering with 2 inches of dead play,im sure even my old mk1 cortina wasnt that bad
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Sun 26 Jul 2009 18:33
Pikes peak - JH
Thanks for the link AE.

Andrew, well you've heard of it now! Now write out 100 times "Pikes Pike..." :-)

JH

Edited by JH on 26/07/2009 at 18:33

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Mon 27 Jul 2009 10:01
Pikes peak - cepi
Nice clip. For me still the Walter Rohrl 1987 Pikes Peak with Audi S1 tinyurl.com/d33xk8 is my favorite. It's with german intro.
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Mon 27 Jul 2009 11:47
Pikes peak - Andrew-T
Andrew, well you've heard of it now!


Yes JH, I was just trying to irritate everyone gently, not just AE (if he had put in a comma everything would be fine ...)

In fact I had heard of Pike's Peak before, but not in connection with a road race.
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Mon 27 Jul 2009 16:23
Pikes peak - Altea Ego
USA, for

There, I like to keep everyone happy, don't want you to think you were left out.


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Mon 27 Jul 2009 16:41
Pikes peak - JH
Is this the start of a shift back to gentle pedantry on this site? I was itching at my keyboard the other day when I saw an "elude" where there should have been an "allude". I'm up for it! :-)
JH
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Mon 27 Jul 2009 16:45
Pikes peak - drbe
It just shows that HJ's much promoted "left foot braking" will come good given time!

; - )
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Mon 27 Jul 2009 16:51
Pikes peak - Lud
gentle pedantry on this site?


Not always very gentle if I remember correctly.

It's all very well to twit PU for hitting the wrong keys with his sausage-like fingers, but I can remember people being nasty about the spelling and grammar of some others, being snooty and exclusive. I wouldn't be surprised if some well-meaning posters had been scared off by this schoolmarmish stuff. Either people have made typos or they can't spell. That doesn't make them stupid. I have a relation who is a full professor and can't spell for toffee nuts.

Not appropriate here really. Liable to narrow the range of people posting. There's already a Telegraph-reader bias in our overall profile. We wouldn't want to lose readers of the other comics or no comics at all.
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Mon 27 Jul 2009 17:01
Pikes peak - Armitage Shanks {p}
I don't think it really matters if one can read, write, split infinitives or foul up the spelling - all views seem to be welcome here. Some of the newbies 200 + word unpunctuated ramblings sometime leave one wondering what is being taught at school these days! Showing that ignorance is no bar to high office, I was fascinated to see a Minister of the Crown, blathering on in the House the other day, about "Elicopters". Back to Pikes Peak - anybody who goes up there at those speeds has round objects made of steel IMO!

Edited by Armitage Shanks {p} on 27/07/2009 at 17:02

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Mon 27 Jul 2009 17:38
Pikes peak - JH
Lud,
true. This thread has been a bit of harmless fun, let's keep it that way.

Incidentally, does anyone know what the rear view mirror is for in that Fester? :-)

JH

Edited by JH on 27/07/2009 at 17:38

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