The Time Attack 1 class was owned by David Donahue, who drove a 2019 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Clubsport to the summit in 9:18.053. Hereafter, the times take a serious tumble, but not as serious as we were hoping.
After the freshly-updated Ford SuperVan 4.2 set a new qualifying record, we fully expected the all-electric race car (masquerading as a van) to snatch the outright record from the Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak. For the record, the best time ever achieved up the hill was in 2018, when Volkswagen’s electric prototype set a time of 7:57.148. Sadly, the same driver, Romain Dumas, was unable to beat himself behind the wheel of the Ford and only managed a time of 8:47.682. Still, that was the quickest time in the Pikes Peak Open class.
Finally, the Unlimited class saw Robin Schute set the fastest time of the event in his 2018 Wolf TSC-FS with a time of 8:40.080. Remarkably, he was supposed to drive an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 up the hill, but the car wasn’t ready. Luckily, he secured an alternate drive just a couple of days before the event.