Pikes Peak: Racing with NO RULES
What happens when you let engineers have completely free reign? No regulations, no power limits and whatever mad aero design they can come up with.
Well, you get crazy-powerful, high-downforce - monsters.
This is exactly what they do in the Unlimited Division at Pikes Peak, where we get to see how they stack up against each other, as well as how it can go wrong.
Home-designed and made machines can compete against big-money international car companies to race to the top of the 14,000 foot mountain. A course with no run-off, no barriers, standard road-tarmac and 2000 foot drops.
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The Unlimited Division is like nothing else in motorsport. Taking a look at the regulations, they say as long as you conform to the regular safety rules - you can do anything you like.
As much power as you want, any design and as much downforce as you can create. As long as you have a roll-cage, harnesses, helmets and other standard safety features - you’re good to go.
This leads to some extremely fast cars, and yet all of them are very different.
So what does it take to take the record at Pikes Peak? How quick is it possible to go with no rules?
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Anyone here remember grab turismos red escudo pikes peak car
That is a great attempt to racing without these stupid regulations like in F1.
Electric car will hold new record
do you ever shutup?
It's just sad to see some stating to be a racing driver, compare a vehicle with a combustion engine to a vehicle with batteries only. Even the vehicle itself is completely different.
This is how f1 should be after 2021. With Budget cap we have a More or less leveled playingfield so why not allow active aero? Or fan cars etc.
I feel like If they put roll cages in consumer cars it would save alot more people
it would if everybody would use a raceseat helmet hans devise 6 point harnes and firepoof suit everytime he drives in the city to buy a burger
That American thing is awful. Terrible design. Typically American.
its like the group B of hill climb
What's the record for a consumer level unmodified car aside from super cars.? There should be a record for that. I would race it and sign a waver saying I understand the risks. I would run it in a lincoln Ls V8.
How fast can these cars climb Mt Everest if road is available.
He means "go full Gordon Murray" and copy the Mclaren race winning Fan Car
1:18 Has flashbacks to Dirt 1 Intro
Did the VW have a check engine light?
less pressure not less o2
Slamming into the trees at such speed and getting away with just bruises - now that sounds like an engineering miracle on the side of the safety engineers.
The VW driver was Romain Dumas.
Tesla Model 3 won!
I live next to pikes peak
Speedrunning IRL
Imagine you're on a team of engineers and you hear your boss say "Oi lads we're doin' Pike's Peak 'ave fun!"
Can I take my 50 hp subaru? I'll adjust the carb halfway thru.
Nice video but I'd like to hear more numbers. Instead of "faster from 0-60 than an F1 car...", just tell me how quickly it does 0-60 in seconds! What are the top speeds reached? What are the average speeds?
This is so cool OMG
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I am still waiting for the same group at olimpics. Like how fast can a human run with max steroids or some other drug. That would be funny to watch.
How do mountain tops see ? They peak.
Beg for subs = downvote.
Suzuki escudo baby!
Just slap a massive wang on the front of a super car. Boom. Done. Aero.
A heaven to f1 teams
OK I will use a v12 50000 liter 20000009kg dowforce 283620628horsepower 2089262519255292025242820254kmh and the best brakes
This is what i call American Touge
Wish dirt rally 2.0 has pikes peak where you can drive any car you can think of to get sub 10
you didn't mention the Suzuki monster?
Pikes peak isn't so much a race as it is a pusher of limits on both man and machine.
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You must admit the home made cars look a bit ridiculous compared to the Peugeot and the VW. The Peugeot was much faster than them already, with much less power !
that's how all racing should be few drops of safety and no limits on cars abilities.
Thanks for making a video about the Pike's Peak Hill Climb! Sending my gratitude from Colorado ^^
Oh god you do what Minecraft IThomesrs do The ratio of viewers to subscribers 😂
The other tule is no other cars on tract at a time... it’s a time trial and a boon to watch. I live in Colorado and have witnessed the event first hand!
gone to the top several times and rode a bike down, sketchy
are drivers and road contact a requirement???
Pikes Peak is for tourists. Mt Washington is where it's at. Practically the same delta Y, but a higher average grade of 11% and a much narrower road with some dirt sections.
devil's playground
i think you could just buy a toro rosso or a sauber for cheaper than some of these builds. no way an f1 car isnt faster
how come none of these pikes peak cars are doing 600 mph wheelies tho
good info brother good vid
A non-annoying way to encourage liking and subscribing that I saw elsewhere is a short reminder at the end of a video along the lines of: "if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to push the like button, and subscribe if you want to see more". IIRC Aarava does this, but in latest videos, he did add visual nags and thus didn't receive a single like from me since then.
6:22 I'm capable of deciding for myself whether I wish to subscribe or not without you nagging me about this 3 times in every video, thank you very much. And the nagging is doing the exact opposite of what you want since you're basically taking me for a fool.
Sorry...like no other motorsport? Isle of Man TT.
they even make anime for this, lol
Almost all cars in this video is look like my custom tamiya
thumbs down how dare you not Mention Monster Tajima The Champ!!!
youtube really snitching on us, guess ill have to subscribe now then.
He's going off of that cliff...! .... Auuuughhh!
Great vids, good work! Thanks for all the data
youtubers make algorithm-centric, eye-catching non-serialised content and then complain most of the people who watch them aren't subscribed...
At one time Pikes Peak was on the USAC schedule and paid points towards the championship, so for many years many of the same drivers who raced in the Indy 500 would be at pike peak trying to set the fastest time in sprint roadsters.
Pikes Peak makes the Nordschleife look like childs play.
Why you didn't mention Suzuki?
I want an unlimited class in the WRC, that'd be amazing!
I want to see Ken Blocks Hoonicorn here!
@Ofentse Mwase Films I'm not sure the Hoonicorn will really do a whole lot. It's nowhere near made for that
@Carter Maziarz Yeah a Speed run, not a Drift run.
Already has a few years ago, go check toyo tires IThomes channel or search KenBlock pikes peak, first one that comes up
8:10- Right foot braking????
Did someone raced Brabham BT46 B there... We know Nick Heifeld's attempt with Mclaren
Turns out i was one of the 82% that wasnt subscribed. Fixed it.
Pikes peak lost its glory when the tarmac was paved
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remind me of fastest car on GT playstation one. Suzuki Escudo 😎
AE86 still waiting for the ticket
I would use the Back to the Future car to win this race.
Competition and Engineering F1 can only dream of.
Dam didn't expect this video to make home sick.
Thank you for showing the unsubscribed stats. I'd never thought about how I enjoy your videos but hadn't taken the 2 seconds to subscribe. Kinda ungrateful on my part. Needless to say have done so now. @Driver65 thank you for the entertaining and educational videos
i wanna do this in a vette kart ok not really but i'd like to see someone else do it
great content, such a shame your droning vice is boring grating as fuck!
There are rules. If there werent any rules, someone would use a helicopter 😂
I drove pikes in a my06 manual forester both up and down. It was amazing.
I've never seen a video more straight to the point as this one and I loved it! Excellent video sir!
So your telling me i could race a block off wood and make q new coass and set a reccord?
So PPIHC Unlimited Class is the right place if you want to see all out race cars or time attack cars without any strict rules. No limit in aero No limit in engine power No limit in weight No limit in drivetrain No limit in budget Just follow the safety rules, & there you go. Correct interpretation of the class name : UnLimited.
Why do you need maximum down force when you can have up force? He just said there are only safety rules right?
So cool to be able to look out my window at pikes peak every day 👍
No conclusion? The video feels like it just stops rather than ends
No rules? So they can kill another?
The size of testicle's needed to do this at speed is incredible!
So are they able to created an airplane?
the loebs pikes peak car is like basically T16 of the modern era
Ultimate downforce
"youtube tell us that %82 of you are not subscribed..." Sounds like takashi 69 snitched
Why didn’t you show one run? Just a bunch of clips 👎🏽
Why mention Adrian Newey's concept fan car and not Gordon Murray's race proven production car?
It's really hard not to binge watch your channel
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I like pikes peaks rules: you want to fly off the side of this mountain? Go right ahead. See if I care. Someone clipped a deer on turn 4. It's corpse is splayed across both lanes. Good luck with that corner.
Imagine using 100% of our brain now
God that’s terrifying. One bit of understeer on one of those hairpins and boom, you’re going to the shadow realm jimbo. No time to react, just game over, thanks for playing