Acting as the event's own headliner, Rod trotted out his Pikes Peak International Hillclimb record-winning Toyota Celica of 1994 for last year's event, and it …
CURRENT SERIES/EVENTS / Off-track / Pikes Peak Hillclimb (1916-to date) Pikes Peak Hillclimb (1916-to date) 1916 (Aug 11) Ralph Mulford (USA)-Hudson (18m24.70s) 1917-1919 NO EVENT. ... Rod Millen (NZ)-Toyota Celica (10m04.06s) 1995 (Jul 4) Nobuhiro Tajima (J)-Suzuki Escudo (7m52.97s)** 1996 (Jul 4) Rod Millen (NZ)-Toyota Celica …
Rod Millen debuted his Millen Motorsports Toyota Celica at the 1994 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The AWD, carbon fibre-bodied prototype was powered to a record time of 10:04.060 by an 850bhp, 1,500 Nm, 2.1L turbocharged 4-cylinder taken from the IMSA GTP AAR Eagle[1]. Millen replaced the Celica with the Tacoma in 1998, but was …
A lot can happen in 28 years. A lot did happen between 1994 and 2022. Those two years are our reference here specifically because in 2022, Rod Millen returned to Pikes Peak with his insane Toyota Tacoma – that we've seen before also at the Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard – some 28 years on from his …
Rod Millen's record-setting 1994 Celica GT AWD. Pikes Peak Hill Climb, 1994. 🎥:ESPN #celica #toyotacelicagt #toyotamotorsport #celicaclub #pikespeak #maximumattack #RodMillen
Rod Millen: Five-Time Pikes Peak Champion ... Rod grabbed his first win in 1994 driving a Toyota Celica Super Sport Turbo to 10 minutes and 4.060 seconds, setting a new Pikes Peak record. He then secured four straight overall wins from 1996 to 1999. The 1996 win came behind the wheels of a 1995 Toyota, while the 1997 victory was in a …
Vintage Videos. 24 years after it set a Pikes Peak record which stood for 13 years, Rod Millen hops aboard his Toyota Celica for a demonstration run at Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Historic. Video: Epic Pikes Peak face-off – Monster Tajima vs Rod Millen. Legendary Escudo Pikes Peak vs FOS-winning Toyota Celica...
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 ...
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-wheel drive ...
Rod Millen's wild Pikes Peak Celica is one of Toyota's most iconic race cars, however until very recently actually seeing it in action in its intended environment …
Video: Epic Pikes Peak face‑off – Monster Tajima vs Rod Millen. Legendary Escudo Pikes Peak vs FOS-winning Toyota Celica... Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, aka 'The Race to the Clouds', is celebrating its 100th running this year so an appropriate excuse – as if one were needed – to take a look at some footage from a …
"In 1994 Rod showed up at Pikes Peak with a tube chassis, carbon bodied Celica silhouette. The event had previously been dominated by hotted up Group B rally cars, but nothing like this Toyota had ever been seen previously on the mountain. Developing a heady 850 bhp, the AWD ground effects car...
A recreation of the incredible Toyota Celica driven by Rod Millen at Pikes Peak in 1994 which set the World Record of 10:04.060, a time that stood for 13 years, and being on the all dirt course it is a record that will never technically be beaten due to the fact the Pikes Peak Hillclimb course is now paved
This year marks the hundredth running of the world's most extreme hill climb: Pikes Peak. Returning to celebrate the milestone at age 71 will be five-time race winner Rod Millen, who will bring ...
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.
Millen is in his awesome yellow Toyota Celica, Monster Tajima is in the Suzuki Escudo that you all remember from Gran Turismo. It's spellbinding stuff. But since this video is just shy of an hour we'll let you into a secret, the big stars arrive at about 47 minutes in. Fast forward to there if you want to see the two hillclimb legends on ...
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 …
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.
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 …
Rod Millen' 850HP Toyota Celica GT 4WD Turbo: Pikes Peak dirt hillclimb course record holder! Acceleration & Sound; Drag & Track; by turboandstance - July 20, 2018 August 3, 2019. ... Enjoy Rod Millen, now 67 years old, still driving flat out up the Goodwood hillclimb course during the 2018 Festival of Speed! Leave a comment.
A recreation of the incredible Toyota Celica driven by Rod Millen at Pikes Peak in 1994 which set the World Record of 10:04.060, a time that stood for 13 years, and being on the all dirt course it is a record that will never technically be beaten due to the fact the Pikes Peak Hillclimb course is now paved After many attempts (lol) here it is, the final …
In a motorsport career spanning 45 years, Rod Millen has written himself into the record books time and time again. His prowess on loose-surface rallies and hillclimbs is renowned, as five victories on the challenging Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado attest.. A long and fruitful collaboration with Toyota yielded the outright Pikes …
Legendary Escudo Pikes Peak vs FOS-winning Toyota Celica... Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, aka 'The Race to the Clouds', is celebrating its 100th running this year so an appropriate excuse – as if one were needed – to take a look at some footage from a quarter of a century ago. Yes, sorry to break it to you, the mid-'90s really was that …
ROD MILLEN. Rod Millen rose to international prominence during the early years of special stage rallying which did not occur in New Zealand until the late 1960s. ... 1993 and 1994 while Pikes Peak was to cement his name in American motorsport folklore as he set the fastest times in 1994 and 1996 to 1999 driving his revolutionary Toyota Celica ...
A recreation of the incredible Toyota Celica driven by Rod Millen at Pikes Peak in 1994 which set the World Record of 10:04.060, a time that stood for 13 years, and being on the all dirt course it is a record that will never technically be beaten due to the fact the Pikes Peak Hillclimb course is now paved After many attempts (lol) here it is, …
In 1994 this Celica set the new record (10:04.06) on the Pikes Peak hillclimb, at that time the course was dirt. The shocking things are this record was 40 second …
Celica. 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 …
Rod Millen's wild Pikes Peak Celica is one of Toyota's most iconic race cars, however until very recently actually seeing it in action in its intended environment has been almost impossible. Thankfully, YouTube has allowed all manner of archival motorsport footage to surface, ...
Rod Millen's Pikes Peak Toyota Celica. Like. Comment. ... Car building and racing legend Rod Millen took this beast to Pikes Peak in 1994 and did a time of 10min 4sec, a time nobody has ever managed to beat on gravel, and while it started to be tarmacced in sections from 2002, it took until 2011 for a car to break the 10min barrier, …
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.
Driven by Rod Millen, the Celica first raced in 1994. When it set a time of 10:04.060. A record that was not broken until 2007. It does however remain the fastest time for a car around Pikes Peak before it was paved. As above, Millen would race the Celica until 1997. Winning the hill climb event two more times.