Pikes Peak

Hillclimb · USA, Colorado

9,390 ft to 14,115 ft in 12.42 miles. 156 turns. One lap.

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. 156 corners, 12.42 miles of asphalt and gravel climbing from 9,390 ft at the start line to the 14,115 ft summit. The air thins as you climb, naturally-aspirated cars lose roughly 30% of their power by the finish. One run a year, no second chances.

Ken Block built the 1,400-hp pink Porsche "Hoonipigasus" for Pikes Peak and ran it at the 100th PPIHC in June 2022, a DNF after a mechanical failure on the climb. He died in January 2023 before he could return for another attempt. At the 101st Pikes Peak in June 2023 his daughter Lia Block, 16 years old, finished the run in his place. Lia ran her father's number, finished the climb, walked back down.

Pikes Peak is not drift in the strict tandem-judging sense. It is the kind of mountain pilgrimage that drift culture recognises as kin, the line is the line, the wall is the cliff, and the run only counts if you finish at the summit. The Hoonigan Climbkhana series codified what that looks like on camera; Rhys Millen's three generations of Pikes Peak runs are the long-form record.