Rhys Millen Leaves Pikes Peak With Unfinished Business Behind Him
Broken intake manifold keeps Millen, Bentley from another class win on the montain.
By Steven Cole Smith Richard Pardon
Rhys Millen launched off the starting line at the 99th Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with the authority you’d expect from the 750-horsepower Bentley GT3 Pikes Peak, a gorgeous, meticulously crafted car with Super Glue-like downforce, and rocketed up the mountain, trouncing the other Time Attack 1 entries through the first and second measured time sectors.
Then boom.
Literally, boom. The intake manifold developed a crack, the boost went south as Millen was going north, and the best he could do was second in class to the fastest man ever up the mountain, Romain Dumas, who wasn’t going for outright speed this time but, like Millen, a Time Attack 1 victory in his 2019 Porsche 911 GT2RS Clubsport. Dumas ran 6 minutes, 31.914 seconds to a limping Millen’s 6:36.281 and
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