"Monster" Tajima has broken the 10 minute barrier with an electric vehicle at Pikes Peak beating the 2011 outright course record set by Nobuhiro Tajima himself at 9:51.278 behind the wheel of a 900 hp Suzuki SX4 Hill Climb Special.
The new EV record now stands at 9:46.530 beating the 10:15.380 set by Fumio Nutahara for Toyota Motorsport in 2012 and was just a whisker shy of 2012 outright winner Romain Dumas who set 9:46.18 in a Porsche GT3 RS.
Unfortunatley the outright record has now been put significantly further out of reach by nine time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb setting a time of 8:13.878 in a 900 hp 900 kg Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak Special.
Source: Pikes Peak Timing
