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As is customary, Tajima drove a vehicle labelled as a Suzuki SX4 and sponsored by his native Japan's Suzuki corporation. The vehicle might have a shape in there that resembles a Suzuki SX4 shape, but in almost every respect, the car shares very little with the road car it purportedly is derived from. Similarly, the beast's twin turbocharged Suzuki V6 has been tweaked to produce a remarkable 680 kW of power and 890 Nm of torque.

While the fabled ten minute mark has finally been broken, there are difficulties in comparing Tajima's time with those from previous events. The 19.9 kilometer-long course may still have the same 156 turns and begin at an altitude of 2860 meters and finish at an altitude of 4300 metres, but each year the course has been upgraded slightly by the local Colorado Springs council.

How close Millen must have gone to the edge of impossibility 15 years ago can only guessed at, but most engine technologies have advanced dramatically in the same time frame.

Interestingly, like Tajima, Millen still competes and in this year's event he took out the two-wheel-drive production class in a Hyundai Genesis Coupe. Millen's son Rhys is now one of the premier drivers in North America with wins in the 2005 Formula Drift championship and the 2008 Red Bull Drifting World Championship. Rhys finished second to Tajima in this year's open class with a time of 11:04.912 in his Hyundai-powered RMR PM580 purpose-built tube-framed race car.

Rhys Millen, the Formula Drift champion who returned to Colorado with his Hyundai Genesis PM580, which had its Pikes Peak debut last year, was expected to challenge the 10-minute mark as well, but he was hampered by brake issues and finished second over all, at 10:09.24.

In the motorcycle class, rookie Carlin Dunne set a new motorcycle record while giving Ducati's "4 bikes in 1" Multistrada its second win in a row.

The Pikes Peak circuit with its diversity of surfaces is claimed by Ducati to be a perfect place to utilize the Multistrada's computerized riding modes. Dunne is claimed to have used the Multistrada's 150hp "Sport" mode in the paved sections while changing to 100hp "Enduro" mode for the dirt sections of the course. The on-the-fly mode changes throughout the race, enable the auto changing of the settings on the Multistrada's Electronic Suspension, Traction Control, and Bosch-Brembo ABS in conjunction with the engine's ride-by-wire throttle management.

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