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Originally Posted by Graz
Just curious, I don't know the Pikes Peaks course well but now that it's been fully paved, why isn't anyone taking it on in a big single seater is is it still more suited to these tricked out closed cars?
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Palatov look like taking up the challenge
this is a single seater designed to maintain a minimum of 500 hp throughout the full course run... it has a paddle operated sequential transmission, weighs bellow 1000 lbs and has all wheel drive... in it's previous lower powered configuration it was only 1.5s off the pace of a formula atlantic car
Weight: 1000 lbs (435 kg)
Engine: Hartley H2 Turbo
HP: 500 hp (throughout full course)
Power to Weight: 700hp/ton
Transmission: Hewland Sequential
http://www.palatov.com/pikespeak/
http://dpcars.net/
http://www.egarage.com/car-profiles/...motorsport-d4/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3I7dd8jC2I
the driver will be David Donner... perhaps they could also bring over a more powerful version of their electric racecar conversion