Rhys Millen has created history by becoming the first competitor to win the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb behind the wheel of an electric car.
Millen carved out a winning time of 9:07.22s in the eO machine which produces stunning power-to-weight figures and is seemingly mainly hindered from leaping under the nine minute barrier by the weight of its batteries.
Although the eO set a new record at the world’s most famous hill climb for battery-powered vehicles, it was well short of the overall Pikes Peak record of 8:13.8s set by Sebastien Loeb in the stunning Peugeot 208 in 2013.
Monster Tajima drove his self-named chassis into second place in a time of 9:32.4s while Paul Dallenbach, in his open-wheel PVA, was third in 9:36.4s.
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