Tell me, do you know the Pikes?

Their fixed jav'lins in his side he wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears.

The climb race pits a driver and car to drive to the summit of the Pikes Peak mountain in Colorado, and in 1985, Michèle Mouton set a new record of 11 25.39, and being the first woman to set a Pikes Peak record.

Bobby Unser used an Audi in that same year to claim a new record for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb at 11 09.22.

We've also worked with Volkswagen Oracle, on Shelley, an autonomous race car that has raced at 150 miles an hour through the Bonneville Salt Flats, gone around Thunderhill Raceway Park in the sun, the wind and the rain, and navigated the 153 turns and 12.4 miles of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb route in Colorado with nobody at the wheel.