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"The Race to the Clouds might be the most illusory title for a race up a mountain ever created. The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is filled with anything but repose, and cloud watching.  The course is 12.4 miles long, features 156 turns, and climbs 4,000 vertical feet from the bottom to the top. It is just shorter than a lap of the Nurburgring, features more turns than the Tail of the Dragon, and the elevation change means even turbocharged engines will lose substantial power between start and finish. It is a race against the clock that draws the best drivers in the world as well as some amazingly foolhardy brave amateurs, and pits cars crammed with the newest in grip-and-go tech alongside home built franken-cars.  Now that the course is entirely paved, some might suppose that the race has been softened; its once fierce jagged drops dulled by the paver. It sure doesn&amp;#039;t look like it on this ride along. Squeeze in with Chris Lennon in his air-cooled 911 called &amp;quot;Casper&amp;quot; as he runs the lower-course practice that took place last weekend at Pikes. The tarmac looks anything but grippy, and the cliffs . . . well it is a mountain and cliffs don&amp;#039;t move, so they still look terrifying. To see the results (and hopefully not too many  off-track moments) you&amp;#039;ll have to wait until June 30th. For now, a race to the clouds in a classic Porsche at Pikes Peak is better than coffee, pavement, dirt, or otherwise. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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