VIDEO: Retro Rides Gathering @ Prescott Hill Climb

Superb video by Dan Osborne of some superb Summer fun at Prescott for the Retro Rides Gathering with some awesome cult classics on display. What's your fav?

VIDEO: Unreal Course Record Blitz by Radical @ 2013 Cholmondeley Pageant of Power

Jees! This is an epic, heroic run up the frightening and crash-tastic 1.2-mile Cholmondeley Pageant of Power sprint course – with Robbie Kerr smashing the course record with a blistering time of 55.29s during the last run of the 2013 event. Robbie set the record in a road-legal Radical SR8 RX despite having never driven the car or the course before, in a wild display of driving bravery and skill. Check it out! And to find out more about the Radical SR8 RX visit www.radicalsportscars.comAnd see our image gallery from the event on our Facebook page.

NEWS: Sebastian Loeb Declares 875bhp Peugeot 208 T16 Pike Peaker "a rocket!"

Nine-times WRC rallying God and French dude, Sébastien Loeb’s has finally got his first impressions of the 875bhp Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak car, describing it as "a rocket," and saying he's never driven anything that accelerates so fast and it has the stopping power like a Formula 1 single-seater, more than in a rally car! Sébastien Loeb is all set to drive 'the race to the clouds' in Colorado on 30th June.
When Sébastien Loeb’s helicopter landed alongside the high security track at La Ferté-Vidame, in North Western France, the rally star believed he was in for a routine test session. After just a handful of laps in the car, he realised that this was something different however…
He said: "The 208 T16 Pikes Peak is a rocket! It’s so powerful! The first time you drive it, each gear change practically stuns you. The shifts are really brutal, and it takes a little time to anticipate the sudden jarring. You get used to it, but it was quite disorienting to begin with."
The Frenchman may have seen it all on world rallying’s most challenging stages, but his words were far from blasé after his first taste of the 208 T16 Pikes Peak.
"I’ve never driven anything that accelerates so fast!" he remarked. "In the lower gears, a Formula 1 car doesn’t deliver maximum power. With the Peugeot, though, it’s bang, bang, bang as you move up the box from standstill. Due to its four-wheel drive transmission and turbocharged engine, its pull-away performance is phenomenal! You find yourself in sixth gear at 150mph in no time at all!"
Indeed, with a 0-62mph (100kph) time of 1.8s, the 208 T16 Pikes Peak would leave any F1 car standing…
It is not only the gearbox which made a big impression on rallying’s superstar.
"Due to its aerodynamic downforce and wide tyres, its braking is amazing, too." he exclaimed. "The 208 package is a combination of the best of several worlds: it’s got the downforce of a Formula 1 car, the wide tyres of an endurance racing prototype and a differential, like a WRC car…" In short, it’s a cocktail that gives you wings…
As the familiarisation process continued, Sébastien Loeb was clearly won over by the unique experience: "I have driven many types of car in my career, but this is very, very different. Its acceleration, performance and stopping power are more like those of a Formula 1 single-seater than a rally car. Its handling is fantastic as well; there’s so much grip, and the all-wheel drive transmission makes it very stable. It’s got huge potential."
Like any thoroughbred, however, the 208 T16 Pikes Peak will need to be broken in, since Sébastien Loeb has no intention of allowing the car to be the one in control. On the contrary; with nine World Rally titles to his name, he approaches the mission with his trademark calm: "This track isn’t very wide and there aren’t any run-offs, so I’m taking things one step at a time. I don’t know what the car’s limits are yet but it was important to do this run on a circuit today. Now we have a better idea of where we stand and a better overview of the car’s potential. After that, the challenge will be to try to feel totally at one with the car on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb itself. That will take some work…"
When the big day comes to race to the Colorado summit at an altitude of 4,301 metres, Sébastien Loeb will need to be capable of mastering every buck and kick of the thoroughbred if he is to steer clear of the many pitfalls that await him along the giddy 20-kilometre course. And that will require perfect osmosis between the French champion and his extremely powerful steed.
To give this fusion every chance of happening, Peugeot Sport has scheduled a busy test programme at circuits, on roads and at altitude as the next phase of this extraordinary project which the multiple World Rally Champion finds particularly stimulating: "I really can’t wait to get to drive the 208 T16 Pikes Peak in Colorado!"
And we can not wait to see what the world's greatest rally driver can do at Pikes Peak, can you?
See a load of cool images of the test here.

VIDEO: "Monster" Tajima @ Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, EV-style

The wonderful, weird-sounding, wacky-fast world of EV motorsport is here to stay, so get used to it folks... and here's something that should help make it sexy – GoPro superhero Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima aiming to beat his record of 9:51.278 in his all electric hill climb car in the 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado Springs. This is his qualifying run from Friday on the 12-mile crazy hill climb course of all hill climb courses. Ok, it's not Walter Rohrl in a turbocharged, flame-spitting T16, but hey... life moves on and this is still scary, skilled stuff...

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