Pikes Peak 2011 - Tajima record FULL LAP (HD)

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Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima (60 years old!!) breaks his own 2007 record 10′01″408 with this new 9′51″278 in his "Suzuki Monster Sport SX4 Hill Climb Special". He broke his record despite losing his radiator in the last phases of the race. The car spewed water from the radiator over the final 500 yards of the race.(you can clearly hear the change in the video).

Tajima overcame an overheated engine and wind gusts of up to 40 mph.
"I took my car to the limit,'' Tajima said. "And it held up to everything I asked of it". Before the race, Tajima predicted he would break the course record, finish in under 10 minutes and win the final time the course would include a section of gravel.Gravel remains in fact on just under three miles of the course, from the Halfway Picnic Grounds to near Glen Cove. Race officials said the course will be completely paved for the 2012 race.

Car specs:
V6 Twin Turbo 3.1; 910 CV ; 90.5kg-m of torque (886.9 Nm) ; weight 1100kg .

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[max27890]

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[alsoadriver]

...absolutely great run....respect! But Walter Röhrl did it in 1987 in only 47 seconds more...with a 24 years older car on 100% gravel. That is for me the real record..!

[ldsdonuts]

I applaud Tajima's efforts, but I don't understand why anybody would pave tarmac over the greatest gravel hill climbs in all of history, Pike's Peak.  Would Tajima have been able to breake the 10' barrier had he been racing on the same course from the 80s? Regardless, he has outstanding skill to be able to control that monster of a car on the gravel sections! Great video! Thanks for the upload!!

[ldsdonuts]

@jeffman3 I can understand the need for the "regular folk" to get around, but paving the road will probably just lead to more spectacular accidents at higher speed. We learned from the Group B era of rally driving that the cars may just be too fast for the drivers, whether it was gravel or tarmac. I think huge, ugly, but effective guard rails are the way to go. I would love to drive up Pike's Peak at speed, but I'm not skilled or crazy enough to test my limits on that road yet.

[skaterfan1231]

Seems like it could have been faster, but still great nonetheless.

[jeffman3]

@ldsdonuts Part of it, I suspect, is that it's also a daily driven road for us regular folk and there were a number of fatal accidents both for rally drivers and the rest of us that prompted them to pave the really bad sections- since then, society has gotten even more tame and they have paved more of the road...

But I agree. It was just silly to pave it. Watching the *old* Tajima videos is certainly more exciting.

[Tommyve000]

IMPRESSIVE

[tinynoggin]

and the 10 min barrier still stands

[ChristianSold1er]

that had to have been under 2 seconds to 60... freakin tore my face of just watching that car accelerate :D

[ivojiggy]

someone call Walter Röhrl please.

[30calRover]

As a floridian, fuuck that

[xjohnnyxriverra]

they could drop down mud on the pave road. if that what ppl want.

[jajaisjagut]

On gravel he looks way slower than Walter Röhrl...