Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

[Gurule92]

Calling all CT owners!

Ford just threw down the gauntlet, they're bringing a crazy lightning to the hill climb. We need someone (preferably with a beast, but I don't trim shame) to run the hill climb in a CT.

We've had unplugged come through with their S, Dark Helmet I believe is it's name.

I'm pretty sure Randy Pobst ran a model 3 up too.

We need someone who isn't scared to destroy their truck and doesn't mind the pressure of being the first and possibly shaming us all against the lightning.

Any takers?

@greggertruck, you said you had awesome content coming. This could be it. (Even though I think you're only dual).

https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-lightning-pikes-peak-teaser-2024/

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[greggertruck]

I am pretty sure a couple Cybertrucks will be making an appearance.

 

[ColdRolledSS]

I saw an image of the Ford - it was under a sheet, but is a heavily modified version of the Lightning - nothing like the street version. So, even if a beast ran the course and was slower than the Ford, no shame in that.

 

[Gurule92]

I saw an image of the Ford - it was under a sheet, but is a heavily modified version of the Lightning - nothing like the street version. So, even if a beast ran the course and was slower than the Ford, no shame in that.

Just need to heavily modify the beast

 

[Gigahorse]

Calling all CT owners!

Ford just threw down the gauntlet, they're bringing a crazy lightning to the hill climb. We need someone (preferably with a beast, but I don't trim shame) to run the hill climb in a CT.

We've had unplugged come through with their S, Dark Helmet I believe is it's name.

I'm pretty sure Randy Pobst ran a model 3 up too.

We need someone who isn't scared to destroy their truck and doesn't mind the pressure of being the first and possibly shaming us all against the lightning.

Any takers?

@greggertruck, you said you had awesome content coming. This could be it. (Even though I think you're only dual).

https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-lightning-pikes-peak-teaser-2024/

Think there are going to be a couple CTs there, I think modding one participating does more harm than good, way better showing what a "factory" CT can do .

 

[Gurule92]

Think there are going to be a couple CTs there, I think modding one participating does more harm than good, way better showing what a "factory" CT can do .

If we could get a beast stock to beat the suped up lightning it'd be glorious

 

[Gigahorse]

If we could get a beast stock to beat the suped up lightning it'd be glorious

It really would!

 

[Gurule92]

@Unpluggedperformance can we expect a CT to run the hill climb this year?

 

[tbuck]

I saw an image of the Ford - it was under a sheet, but is a heavily modified version of the Lightning - nothing like the street version. So, even if a beast ran the course and was slower than the Ford, no shame in that.

It may be the research truck, "Switchgear" - basically an electric Ford Raptor. There were some videos a month or two ago on it. This is something Ford uses as a research platform to see what works and what does not. It would be a good stage for them to see how people react and how it performs.

 

[Gurule92]

Rivian is going. Who's running their CT?

Rivian will race the new 1,025hp Ascend Quad Max R1T at Pike’s Peak this week https://electrek.co/2024/06/18/rivi...-ascend-quad-max-r1t-at-pikes-peak-this-week/

But it's imaginary

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