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FEATURE I PIKES PEAK HILLCLIMB REVISITED
It's one of my outstanding memo-
ries of four years racing America's last
great road race.
Three days later, Carlin Dunne died
in a last-corner accident when he was
on course to not just beat my new
course record but smash it.
Carlin was absolutely the man at
Pikes Peak. I've never seen a rider so
perfectly attuned to one racing venue,
save for perhaps Michael Dunlop and
the TT Mountain Course. Dunne's death
marked the permanent end of motorcy
-
cle competition at the Pikes Peak Inter-
national Hill Climb, a discipline that can
trace its beginning way back to 1916,
one year after the start of World War I.
(Left) Chris Fillmore
(11) celebrates with
teammate Scaysbrook
(33) after the pair
went 1-2 in a record-
breaking 2017 race.
(Below) Scaysbrook
and Ducati's Carlin
Dunne wish each other
good luck as the last
two riders ready to
take on the mountain
in 2019. Tragically,
only Scaysbrook would
make it to the top.
