Pikes Peak climb comes to an End with New records and heart-stopping crashes

Race to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, 14,110-foot summit,
is being organized since last 90 years and is counted among world’s most dangerous races with no safety being provided to the drivers and for the first time drivers were to reach the summit. Rhys Millen, the champion, set a new record, by improving it to last year's fastest time with a 9 minute, 46.164 second run, a victory of two-hundredths of a second over the next runner.

The Pikes Peak climb is a running of 12-mile course with 153 turns whose altitude changes saps power from engines and drivers. Unlike other races, there's few limits on what can be raced, with everything from motorcycles with sidecars to custom-built 1,000-hp race cars tackling the course every year.
Running a 700-hp turbocharged Hyundai Genesis coupe, Millen bested a field of gas and electric-powered competitors on Sunday, barely ahead of French driver and 24 Hours of Le Mans champion Romain Dumas in his Porsche 911. The new electric record went to Fumio Nutahara in a Toyota-built race car, which shaved two minutes off the previous best time for an EV and placed sixth overall with a 10:15.380 run.

Out of 170 entries, Paul Dallenbach, was one of the unlucky drivers favored to win the race, tested the limits of those precautions when the throttle stuck on his 1,400-hp unlimited-class race car, sending him flying into the trees at 130 mph. Dallenbach later tweeted: "nothing left of the car. Took a flight 4 life ride but today was not my day to go. I am very sore."

Another driver, Jeremy Foley, and his co-driver Yuri Kouznetsov also suffered only minor injuries after their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX went off the road at Devil's Playground, rolling 10 times before coming to a stop on the mountainside.