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FEATURE I PIKES PEAK HILLCLIMB REVISITED
full factory Ducati support alongside team-
mate Codie Vahsholtz.
I
was once again back with KTM, determined
to make it a third time's a charm win. I came
within six-tenths of a second of Dunne. If 2017
was the happiest I'd been to finish second,
2018 was by far the worst.
It was the closest winning margin of any class—
bike, car, sidecar, whatever—in the race's history.
The 2016 year was my first
attempt at the race, when I built
up a KTM 1290 Super Duke R
and, with the support of KTM
USA and Pirelli, finished second
to Frenchman Bruno Langlois on
a Kawasaki Z1000.
I was back in 2017, this time
in the full factory KTM team,
where my rookie teammate,
AMA Superbike and Supermoto
gun Chris Fillmore, took a spec
-
tacular win and course record of
9:49.625
with me again in sec-
ond place. It was the happiest
I've ever
been to finish second
and heralded a historic moment
for KTM Factory Racing.
By now, Pikes Peak was really
starting to gain notoriety—the
good kind. Chris' win in 2017
was the first from a truly inter
-
nationally recognized racer and
gave
the event a level of credibil-
ity that until that point seemed
out of
reach.
At this point, Carlin Dunne's
itch to compete once more
couldn't be ignored, and he
fronted up for the 2018 race with
The incredible
Volkswagen
I.D. R prototype
electric racecar
of Frenchman
Romain Dumas of
2018. This car still
holds the all-time
course record at
a mind-warping
8:57.118.
Scaysbrook lays it all
on the line during practice
in the notorious middle
section of the track.
