COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-- Rod Millen of New Zealand repeated as champion in the unlimited division of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and again fell short of the 10-minute mark. Millen, who lives in Newport Beach, Calif., piloted a Toyota Celica up the 12.42-mile course to the mountain's 14,110-foot summit in 10 minutes, 4.54 seconds.
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This is the same exact truck that Millen ran up Pikes peak in 1998, 1999, and 2000. In fact, it was in this truck that Millen finished his dominance of the Peak by winning four times in five years ...
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Returning to celebrate the milestone at age 71 will be five-time race winner Rod Millen, who will bring with him his legendary, two-time overall …
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1989 Rod Millen Mazda MX6 12:43.740 2002 Mark Lovell Subaru Impreza 11:39.630 2019 Raphael Astier 2017 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Turbo 9:23.721 ... Pikes Peak Challenge Motorcycle Pikes Peak Vintage Motorcycle 2012 Marc LaNoue 1969 Triumph Bonnie 12:39.782
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In 1998, the Rod Millen Motorsport team designed and built a new Toyota Tacoma racing truck to compete in the 76th Pikes Peak international hill climb, a machine which went on to claim the unlimited class honours in the 1998 and 1999 events. It is this truck that Millen drove at the 2007 Festival of Speed. Page 1 of 1
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Ever since February 2022, it is no secret that Rod Millen and his 1998 Toyota Tacoma race truck are coming back to Pikes Peak. The legendary racer, who has won twice at Pikes Peak in that Tacoma ...
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History of on Pikes Peak. 1992 – This was the first year a is noted as competing on Pikes Peak. Rod Millen won the 2-Wheel Drive Showroom Stock division – 13:21.17. Millen drove a Scoupe equipped with the company's new turbocharged, 16-valve, dual overhead camshaft Alpha series engine. (picture below)
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The so-called 3SG engine from the old rally car has been used extensively in IMSA GTP race cars of the '90s as well as in Rod Millen's Pikes Peak Hill Climb runners.
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Rod Millen needs no introduction in this corner of the internet. The ex-pat Kiwi first made a name for himself in New Zealand, in the mid-1970s, when he won the national rally championship three years straight in a Mazda RX-3. …
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Rod didn't seem to mind racing on pavement, returning to Pikes Peak to run the fastest overall time four years in a row from 1996 to 1999. Rod joined the celebration for the 100 th Pikes Peak Hill Club in 2022, making the run in his …
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New Zealand's Rod Millen's first attempted Pikes Peak in 1981, entering a 1981 Mazda RX7 in the Rally division and finishing in 13:58.7. From 1984 through 1988 he ran in the Open Rally class, slicing nearly two minutes from his finish time in the interval. Still competing in a Mazda, Millen returned in 1989 in Pikes Peak Production ...
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In 1998, the Rod Millen Motorsport team designed and built a new Toyota Tacoma racing truck to compete in the 76th Pikes Peak international hill climb, a machine which went on to claim the unlimited class honours in the 1998 and 1999 events. It is this truck that Millen will drive at the 2007 Festival of Speed.
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Old timers like New Zealand rally samurai Rod Millen, who has set the record five times and who will forever be the fastest driver on the all-dirt Pikes Peak (10:04.06 in 1994 in a Toyota Celica ...
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The Toyota Celica Pikes Peak is a purpose-built silhouette hill-climbing race car built by Rod Millen Motorsport to participate in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, specifically in the Unlimited class. The Celica Pikes Peak, despite its name, shared no parts with its road-going counterpart apart from the windshield and was essentially a Celica silhouette body on a …
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Watch Rod Millen Anger The Heavens Once Again In His Pikes Peak-Conquering Tacoma The five-time Pikes Peak champion brought his legendary Tacoma out of retirement for 2022, making for one can't ...
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But thereafter Millen went on to do what very few Kiwis have achieved, finding podium success in American motorsport. He won the North American Race and Rally Championship in 1979, 1980 and 1981, then in 1989 Millen achieved perhaps his greatest feat, winning the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, America's second oldest motor-racing event.
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This year marked the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb's (PPIHC) 100 th anniversary. For more than a century drivers and fans from around the world have converged on the famous mountain to be a part of the prestigious hill climb competition.
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Chapter 1: Rod's Rocketship. In 1986, Rod Millen contacted American rotary specialist Racing Beat to start work on a 550hp 2-Rotor Turbo engine that would be bolted onto a custom 4WD drivetrain setup.
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Rod Millen "It's the challenge and adventure that drives us." Pikes Peak Championships. Overall Record Time: 10:04.06 in 1994 – Current Record Holder Overall Championships: (5) 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994 Class Championships: (8) Unlimited Class: 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994 Showroom Class: 1992 Open Class: 1991 Division C: 1989. Off ...
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The Pikes Peak Tacoma was successor to Millen's equally radical Pikes Peak Celica, with which he won the hillclimb with in 1994, 1996, and 1997. In its first outing the car set a record of 10:04:06, which remained unbroken until Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima came along with a Suzuki XL7, itself a successor to the Pikes Peak Escudo, in 2007.
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Rod Millen is taking his monstrous 1000-horsepower 1998 Toyota Tacoma back up the Rocky Mountains in this year's Pikes Peak Hillclimb. This Tacoma truck that is really only a Tacoma by name wowed motorsport enthusiasts when it won outright honours in the famous Hillclimb in 1998 and '99.
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If you're not yet familiar with Rod Millen's Leadfoot Festival, you really ought be. In the same vein as Goodwood's Festival of Speed hillclimb, Rod Millen has crafted his own hillclimb in ...
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This car set a Pikes Peak record that stood for 13 years. Check out our gallery of Rod Millen's epic 1994 Toyota Celica hillclimb car.
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Rod Millen's wild Pikes Peak Celica is one of Toyota's most iconic race cars, however until very recently actually seeing it in action in its intended environment has been almost impossible. Thankfully, YouTube has allowed all manner of …
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Rod Millen is a legend of NZ Motorsport. Pikes Peak Hill Climb winner, Asia Pacific Rally Champion, and the original NZ Rally Champion. Rod was the winner of the first National Rally title in 1975 driving a Mazda RX3 and proceeded to …
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Few cars to compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb are as iconic as Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma and for the 100th running of the event, it screamed up the mountain once again.
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Rod Millen Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma. The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak can hit 60 MPH in 1.6 seconds thanks to a 1,000 HP 2.1-liter engine. The "truck" was built and driven by New Zealander Rod Millen (Rhys's dad) for the 1998 Pikes Peak Hillclimb. The vehicle has nothing in common with the Tacoma and is, in fact, built on a chrome-molly tubular ...
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Pikes Peak´98 Rod Millen Griffin Models | No. | 1:43 Facts Brand: Griffin Models Title: Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak´98 Rod Millen Scale: 1:43 Type: Full kit Topic: Toyota Tacoma » Cars (Vehicles) Product timeline . Missing info
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Rod Millen "It's the challenge and adventure that drives us." Pikes Peak Championships. Overall Record Time: 10:04.06 in 1994 – Current Record Holder Overall Championships: (5) 1999, …
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Rod Millen debuted his Millen Motorsports Toyota Celica at the 1994 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The AWD, carbon fibre-bodied prototype was powered to a record time of 10:04.060 by an 850bhp, 1,500 Nm, 2.1L turbocharged 4-cylinder taken from the IMSA GTP AAR Eagle [1].. Millen replaced the Celica with the Tacoma in 1998, but was unable to best his time.
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There might be a little extra anxiety this year for driver Rhys Millen, whose father, Rod Millen, will make his return to the 156-turn …
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It would take the New Zealand legend another 13 years to become the fastest man at Pikes Peak. Driving the renowned Pikes Peak Celica, he almost broke the 10-minute barrier.
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