Post by Kasey Kagawa

This last Wednesday was the 20th anniversary of Walter Röhrl’s record-setting sprint up Pikes Peak. Driving a Audi Sport Quattro S1 Group B rally car, he did the deed in 10:47:85, beating perennial Pikes Peak hill climb winner Bobby Unser’s record run of 11:09:22, set the previous year in a similar Quattro S1. The first appearance of the Sport Quattro at Pikes Peak in 1985, driven by Michele Mouton, who not only won the event, but set a record time for a female driver that still stands. Video starts out in German, but soon the voice goes away, leaving only the beautiful music of a Group B engine being beat to within an inch of its life.