Built by a company co-owned by Jenson Button, the Radford Pikes Peak Edition Type 62-2 set a best-in-class time at the Pikes Peak Climb competition held yesterday in Colorado, USA.
We talked about this car, as well as the fact that Tanner Faust, a famous American racer and stuntman, will drive it, and yesterday he successfully completed his mission – he showed the best time in the Exhibition Class category.
Jenson Button: “Congratulations to the entire Radford team on winning our category in the Pikes Peak Climb competition, and we did it in less than 10 minutes. Tanner Faust, you are simply amazing! And you are also a very brave person, as you were able to cover this distance in 9 minutes and 37 seconds. This is the 8th result in the overall standings of 63 cars.
If you don’t know what Pikes Peak is, ask: this is one of the most legendary races, the track goes uphill and ends at an altitude of 4300 meters. There’s loads of equipment, of racers, so I’m very proud of everyone who has competed in these competitions, but most of all I’m proud of our guys!
See you at the Goodwood Festival of Speed!”
Yesterday we talked about Roman Dumas’s new but unofficial record in the Pikes Peak Open class, but in the overall standings the Frenchman was only second. And he won the competition and for the fourth time received the right to be called the “King of the Hill” 35-year-old Briton Robin Shute.
He started in the Unlimited class, which can be run on almost any vehicle, on a 2018 Wolf TSC-FS prototype with a 2.1-litre Honda turbo engine, and covered the distance in 8 minutes. 40,080 seconds.
Source: F1 News
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