quattro digest, Vol 1 #4619 - 16 msgs

[Benjamin L Guasto]

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Hello from Pike¹s Peak country!  I live in the NW side of Colorado Springs
about 15 miles from the base of the Mountain.  The annual Hill Climb is a
unique, awesome race, all right!  I driven up the mountain a few times, but
at a more leisurely pace, to be sure.  About 3 summers ago, Audi of America
had a fun driver¹s ed event out here at Pike¹s Peak Int¹l Raceway,
including riding along in an A8 playing tag with other professional drivers
in other Audi¹s around the course, just under 100mph!   Some of us from the
event went up Pike¹s Peak one afternoon that July, from 90 degrees in the
valley to snow squalls on top.

The video is something to watch.  I second the urge that you download this
and watch it.  I¹d like to see an on-board camera record the race of a
vehicle that did not quite make one of the turns or switchbacks.  Yes, there
have been drivers to go off the course, which can be very career-limiting,
if you ³catch the drift.²

By the way, at the end of the film, it reads the altitude is 4500 meters.
Must have been a french calculator they used; it is ³only² 4301 m in
altitude.

Regards,

Ben
00 A6 2.7T

On 02/16/2003 08:50 PM, "quattro-request at audifans.com"
<quattro-request at audifans.com> wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:33:39 -0500
> From: Bob <bob at audisport.com>
> To: JShadzi at aol.com
> Cc: quattrofan at sbcglobal.net, quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Pikes Peak Video
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> Since its painfully obvious that there wont be a mt washington hillclimb
> anytime soon :(  this past summer I decided I was going to build up the
> A2 for pikes peak. Ive always wanted to do that mountain. Its a real
> kick in the ass doing a ride like that...
>
> Bob
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>> Mike, thanks for sharing that, major chills watching it, my wife is wondering
>> why I'm standing up and cheering at the computer =)
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>> I went out to Pikes Peak a few years ago to watch the race, before the race
>> starts you can drive up the course to points up the MT to watch, let me tell
>> you that even driving up those roads going 15mph put me on edge (literally),
>> most of the road has vertical drops hundreds of feet down, to see a driver
>> push a car up the MT like that is awe inspiring, now that is talent.
>>
>> Good stuff,
>> Javad
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>> In a message dated 2/16/2003 6:50:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>> quattrofan at sbcglobal.net writes:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Have any of you seen this video before?  This is seriously one of the
>>> coolest things I have ever watched.
>>> The movie is of the 88 Pikes Peak hillclimb.
>>> Ari Vatanen droves the course in a Puegot 405 T16.
>>> This video goes to show you how insane that rally is.
>>> It is a BIG file at 66MB. But I highly recommend it.
>>> The picture and sound are awesome.
>>> I have no affiliation to the site, I just stumbled upon this.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://carfreaks.b0nk.net/Course%20de%20Pikes%20Peak%20(Ari%20Vatanen).mpg
>>>
>>> Hope you like it,
>>> Mike Robinson
>>> 88 90q

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