Monster Tajima Wins Pikes Peak For The 4th Time In A Row

It has been a very busy successive weeks and updates have been short coming. Much is still happening with the industry. Hopefully things will normalize after two more weeks.

Not your mum's Suzuki SX4.



Congratulations to Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima for winning the 87th Pikes Peak Hill Climb Rally for the 4th time in a row. Monster Tajima, as he is more famously known, have previously conquered the Pikes Peak in a heavily modified Suzuki XL7. This time however he raced in another hillclimb specialist machine loosely based on the SX4.


In 2007, Monster Tajima, driving a Suzuki XL7, broke a 13-year old course record previously held by Kiwi rally superstar Rod Millen's Toyota Celica, with a time of 10:01.408. Below is a video of his record breaking run.


Congratulations to Tajima-san. Previous rally greats who have conquered the Pikes Peak include 80s era Group B World Rally legends like Walter Röhrl and Ari Vatanen.
There was a very famous video made featuring Ari Vatanen in his Peugeot 405 T16 tackling the Pikes Peak.


Walter Röhrl in his Audi S1 Quattro


Via NihonCar.com