Anyone ever been? Worth attending as a spectator?

https://ppihc.org/

On my race bucket list, but I always seem to have something going on.

My perfect year would be Daytona, then Le Mans, then PPIHC, then back overseas to Goodwood to finish off the year. Lots of travel...someday!

I just looked at the website. The event looks cool. Camper or motorhome would be ideal.

is it televised?

A family legend claimed on my wife's side is that my wife's great-grandmother was the first woman to drive up Pike's peak. Based on family history and location, it may be true.

I was in Colorado Springs one year the week before and a ton of the racers brought their cars out downtown and you could walk around and talk to them. One dude had a Porsche 928 with a centrifugal supercharger setup that he home built. Lots of garage projects giving it a go along with big money entrants.

It's an awesome event, grass roots all the way up to factory supported.

Obligatory - And he walked away...

Richard Hammond?

My friend has had a few offs there as well.

One of my coworkers used to go every year with his friends, not sure if they still do it. He says a lot of what made it awesome is slowly going away as more of the course gets paved, but everything can be like that if you have great memories of how your experience was, and it starts to change. It seems like an awesome race, and it's a beautiful part of the country to visit anyways.

The entire course was fully paved in 2011 so that hasn't changed the last 10 years.

An Ag in CO said:

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The entire course was fully paved in 2011 so that hasn't changed the last 10 years.

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Yeah, he was going annually for a long time. He watched it get paved over the years and how much the event changed.