Multistrada Racer has been built for Pikes Peak Hill Climb

[DucatiTorrey]

Ducati has also created a blog to follow the racers
http://www.ducati.com/od/ducatinorthamerica/en/news/detail.jhtml?newsId=32305

[DucatiTorrey]

the team has been okayed to race after inspection!

[DucatiTorrey]

some pictures from Fan Fest downtown Colorado Springs. All three race bikes were in the Ducati Team booth (4 if you count the 2008 winning bike), as well as a 1098 engine display (moving parts too, very cool) and the local dealer with some bikes. Ducati was very well represented, two huge semis and all! The entire street, a few blocks long was full of booths and race cars. It was very cool. Cannot wait till Sunday.








for more info on the race divisions (yes there is a sidecar division) check out ppihc.com

[Slide Panda]

Anyone got a line on TV coverage? I've found U-stream on the PPHC site... but I was hoping for some TV action.

[DucatiTorrey]

A group of dealers and the Ducati Team made it up to the summit of Pikes Peak the day before the race. Is that Bonfi I see?

[1KDS]

Here's a little more on it.  Man, that paint scheme is killer!

http://pikespeak.ducatiusa.com/

[DucatiTorrey]

GREG TRACY WINS AGAIN! Alexander comes in third as well, great finish by both! 

http://www.usacracing.com/ppihc/ts/2010

my vantage point on his run, Devils Playground, 13,000 feet up
Greg Tracy Spider Grips Ducati Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

[DucatiTorrey]

and Alexander Smith coming through the same spot a few minutes later.
Alexander Smith coming through Devil's Playground on Pikes Peak 2010

[Raux]

is that a mistake in the 750cc category
won by greg trachy on a multistrada? was it an older 600 MS bumped up?

[R0CKETMAN]

Cool videos and two different lines. Using spectators as guard rails priceless.

[DucatiTorrey]

is that a mistake in the 750cc category
won by greg trachy on a multistrada? was it an older 600 MS bumped up?

no this was a 1205 cc class

edit: yeah thats a typo on the results page

[DucatiTorrey]

Cool videos and two different lines. Using spectators as guard rails priceless.

you should have seen more of the four wheel vehicles in that spot, quads doing 65 right there and cutting the cnorner so tight they're on gravel, semi trucks peeling out almost just as fast, and the "Monster" going off the road but saving it, spitting rocks into peoples windshields

here is the moster



car built specifically for this race, was a favorite for beating the ten minute time, didn't though, missed by 7 seconds i think

[DucatiTorrey]

here is where we watched from, Devil's Playground

[R0CKETMAN]

Amazes me four wheels are faster than two on PP.

Beautiful scenes indeed

[Case S2R]

Cool stuff,

On pavement, IMO 4 wheels are always faster than 2 when you talk about purpose built machinery for ex Moto GP vs F1 and the "Monster" posted above.
Off-Road- is still too close to call, dirt bikes and trophy trucks avg close to the same speed.