New video of Monster Tajima's Pikes Peak run

[keshy]

Falken tires has released this 11-minute video of Monster Tajima's climb up Pike's Peak. The Japanese veteran who's full name is Nobuhiro Tajima pilots a 1187kg Suzuki SX4 powered by a 3.1-liter twin-turbo V6 heavily tuned to produce 897hp and 654lb-ft of torque. He still holds the record of being the fastest man up Pikes Peak, however every year the aim for the contestants is to beat the 10-minute mark. Check out the video to see what the drivers and their machines go through to beat that record.

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[Niemans1116]

AWESOME POST!!

Mount Kinabalu's summit=13435ft. And this car goes all the way to 14110ft in just 10min 11sec..just awesome.

Reality check:
Driving up to Genting from 1st check point even takes longer than that 10mins for most car.

 

[HoHooi!]

wakaka....its true.... damm fast....!!!

 

[speed7791]

its nerve wrecking just watching the video. one wrong move n its bye bye...

 

[quiksilve]

The pikes peak legend is at his best, hehe hope they will have this car featured in this coming November's Gran Turismo 5 game launch after the previous featured two escudo pikes peak monster in GT 2.

No wonder he is still the pikes peak champion, he eats hill climb for breakfast lol.

Killed a lot of bugs on the way up the climb, glad he didn't kill the camera man at the end of the finish line :)