But thereafter Millen went on to do what very few Kiwis have achieved, finding podium success in American motorsport. He won the North American Race and Rally Championship in 1979, 1980 and 1981, then in 1989 Millen achieved perhaps his greatest feat, winning the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, America's second oldest motor-racing event.
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1984-1986 – Rod Millen would settle for second in the Rally division behind course record setters, Michele Mouton and Bobby Unser. Millen's best time in the RX-7 at that time was 12:04.85. 1991 – Millen won the Pikes Peak Open division, setting a division record and his best time ever in the RX-7 in 11:51.37 on the gravel course.
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It would take the New Zealand legend another 13 years to become the fastest man at Pikes Peak. Driving the renowned Pikes Peak Celica, he almost broke the 10-minute barrier.
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Rod Millen will be there to celebrate (and compete) with his turbo Toyota pickup. This year marks the hundredth running of the world's most …
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Rod Millen is taking his monstrous 1000-horsepower 1998 Toyota Tacoma back up the Rocky Mountains in this year's Pikes Peak Hillclimb. This Tacoma truck that is really only a Tacoma by name wowed motorsport …
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Ever since February 2022, it is no secret that Rod Millen and his 1998 Toyota Tacoma race truck are coming back to Pikes Peak. The legendary racer, who has won twice at Pikes Peak in that Tacoma ...
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It's a an FC-generation coupe originally raced by Rod Millen at Pikes Peak. It has a full tube-frame chassis, and a 20B triple-rotary engine making around 600 horsepower.
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ROD MILLEN – 5-time King of the Mountain. New Zealand's Rod Millen's first attempted Pikes Peak in 1981, entering a 1981 Mazda RX7 in the Rally division and finishing in 13:58.7. From 1984 through 1988 he ran in the …
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Of the climbs that continued the 7.37 miles Pikes Peak hillclimb was the most popular and has now reached a legendary status. One of the major contenders each year is the New Zeelander Rod Millen. His entrant for the …
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If you follow our social media channels closely enough, you'll know it too. You'll know it's heavily turbocharged, entirely unhinged and that it broadly resembles a Toyota Tacoma. It is of course the 1998 and 1999 Pikes Peak-winning hillclimb special of Rod Millen, and in this video, we see it return to the mountain.
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Rod Millen at the 76th annual Pikes Peak Hill Climb | Photo By Andy Cross The Denver Post via Getty Images. You can really get a sense of how grueling the road is once you reach the 10:00 mark and see Millen struggling to keep the truck between the lines on the road that is snowy, damp, and foggy. Near the 11:00 mark, it gets completely ...
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From 1989 until 1992 Rod contested several WRC events for Mazda and recorded top three finishes in Asia Pacific Championship events but his attention was now turning to indoor stadium truck racing and the Pikes Peak hillclimb with a new and successful relationship with Toyota.
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Rod Millen – Rally "It's the challenge and adventure that drives us." – Rod Millen. ... Rod had also set his sights on becoming King of the Mountain, competing in the Pikes Peak International Hill Club. He started competing at Pikes Peak in 1981. He won his first crown at Pikes Peak in 1994, setting a record for the fastest time ever ...
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This is the same exact truck that Millen ran up Pikes peak in 1998, 1999, and 2000. In fact, it was in this truck that Millen finished his dominance of the Peak by winning four times in five years ...
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In 1998, the Rod Millen Motorsport team designed and built a new Toyota Tacoma racing truck to compete in the 76th Pikes Peak international hill climb, a machine which went on to claim the unlimited class honours in the 1998 and 1999 events. It is this truck that Millen drove at the 2007 Festival of Speed. Page 1 of 1
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History of on Pikes Peak. 1992 – This was the first year a is noted as competing on Pikes Peak. Rod Millen won the 2-Wheel Drive Showroom Stock division – 13:21.17. Millen ...
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In a very different time at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Rod Millen was the king of the mountain. Millen won five of six events between 1994 and 1999, all in beastly all …
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Few cars to compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb are as iconic as Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma and for the 100th running of the event, it screamed up the mountain once again.
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In 1994, Millen set a new record up the 12.4-mile course at the wheel of his iconic yellow Celica, back when the Pikes Peak course was entirely dirt from flag to flag. He also claimed the fastest ...
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The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak is a purpose-built silhouette hill-climbing race truck built by Rod Millen Motorsport to participate in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, specifically in the Unlimited class. The Tacoma Pikes Peak essentially acted as a successor to the Celica Pikes Peak also built by Rod Millen Motorsport for the same race and class. Similar to the Celica, the …
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Five-time King of the Mountain, Rod Millen, all-dirt course record holder, Pikes Peak icon and Hall of Famer returned to the mountain in 2022 for the 100th Running of the second oldest race in America proving he still has what it takes, claiming third in the Exhibition division and a remarkable 8th place, overall.
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Watching him from below was Rod Millen, who would go on to become one of the faces of the race in the 1990s in his turbo Toyota Tacoma race truck.His dominance would be interrupted by the rise of ...
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Rod Millen "It's the challenge and adventure that drives us." Pikes Peak Championships. Overall Record Time: 10:04.06 in 1994 – Current Record Holder Overall Championships: (5) 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994 Class Championships: (8) Unlimited Class: 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994 Showroom Class: 1992 Open Class: 1991 Division C: 1989. Off ...
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This car set a Pikes Peak record that stood for 13 years. Check out our gallery of Rod Millen's epic 1994 Toyota Celica hillclimb car. The saying goes, "Records are meant to be broken." While that ...
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New Zealand's Rod Millen's first attempted Pikes Peak in 1981, entering a 1981 Mazda RX7 in the Rally division and finishing in 13:58.7. From 1984 through 1988 he ran in the Open Rally class, slicing nearly two minutes from his finish time in the interval. Still competing in a Mazda, Millen returned in 1989 in Pikes Peak Production ...
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The Toyota Celica Pikes Peak is a purpose-built silhouette hill-climbing race car built by Rod Millen Motorsport to participate in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, specifically in the Unlimited class. The Celica Pikes Peak, despite its name, shared no parts with its road-going counterpart apart from the windshield and was essentially a Celica silhouette body on a …
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1989 Rod Millen Mazda MX6 12:43.740 2002 Mark Lovell Subaru Impreza 11:39.630 2019 Raphael Astier 2017 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Turbo 9:23.721 ... Pikes Peak Challenge Motorcycle Pikes Peak Vintage Motorcycle 2012 Marc LaNoue 1969 Triumph Bonnie 12:39.782
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Newport Beach's Rod Millen has been living at the peak of both danger and. success. Millen's worst fear, before throttling forward at the annual Pikes. Peak International Hill Climb in Manitou ...
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In 1994 Rod Millen piloted his custom Toyota Celica GT up an all-dirt Pikes Peak and set a record of 10:04.060. The 885 kg (1950 lb) race car features a tube chassis and carbon fiber body with the only stock part being the windshield. It's powered by a turbocharged 2.1 L TRD inline-four used in All American Racers' Eagle HF89 and Eagle MkIII race cars.
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While the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb layout is no longer covered in dirt, seeing Rod Millen going all out in the Tacoma will take you back to 1999.
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This car set a Pikes Peak record that stood for 13 years. Check out our gallery of Rod Millen's epic 1994 Toyota Celica hillclimb car.
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