Shute’s nearest pursuer was Romain Dumas. Watch the full interview with Shute and an onboard view of his run below: But I held on and wrestled - it was a wild ride.” Conditions were just different today the car just wasn’t dialed like I needed it to. “Nah, it’s OK - it’s always great to get to the top of the mountain. “Terrible!” Shute declared wryly after his run.
But it didn’t impress the meticulous Shute, who felt he hadn’t set the car up correctly for the conditions to make the most of improvements made to the car for this year. That was a lot faster than his winning time of 10m09.525s with the same car in last year’s race, when slick conditions and poor visibility slowed speeds. With near perfect weather conditions greeting competitors for the 101st running of the Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Robin Shute continued his run of domination at the “Race to the Clouds.” The British driver claimed his fourth overall “King of the Mountain” title in five years with his venerable Unlimited class 2018 Wolf TSC-FS powered by a 2.1-liter Honda turbo engine, setting a time of 8m40.080s for the 12.42-mile, 156-turn paved road to the 14,115ft summit of Pikes Peak.
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