The ending! "instead of loading the car up on a truck, he continued to drive it all the way home". This is why I love Porsche, you can win the race and then casually drive home in the same car.
@@BARATTI99 But with a Turbo S actually easily possible. In Germany there is a 991.2 Turbo S of 2020 by PP-Performance, tuned to 1000 BHP with stock gearbox and even most of the engine stock - they made 45 runs in a row on a drag race (in between all the R35 GT R with 1000 BHP needed to fix stuff and they already were running with a custom gearbox) and it had not a single problem. Afterwards the owner used it again as his daily. The 911 Turbo S is the best allround supercar ever built... it's a racecar, a highway car, a daily for 365 days a year. It's fast, turns like a beast and it still is comfy.
Showing why the Turbo S is the sleeper supercar. Great conditions to show the strengths of the vehicle, mega traction despite a cold wet road and balance under breaking and across the bumps. It’s shocking how fast it is and it sounds like it’s hardly working compared to the GT Porsches. What a machine! Also, credit to the driver who kept the speed up despite white out conditions for the top third. Very brave.
@@lazww The fog was like a wall in areas, overnight rain and snow, 2 degrees Celsius, damp track. A clear sunny day…I think he was cracking the 10 min mark.
000 and Carfection - Pete and Henry - David and Porsche - Pikes Peak and the difficult conditions. Driving it all home after the hillclimb - priceless. Porsche. There is no substitute.
@@alanmay7929 What? Porsche does what Porsche wants to do. They are the richest sports/supercar manufacturer in the world MILES ahead of the rest for a reason. They also have more money than brands like Audi who sells alot of family vehicles, thats because what they make is made to last and it performs every generation. You can't say that about the other brands who makes supercars, thats not a fanboy statement it's a fact. Most winning brand in motorsport history and most succesful sportscar maker in history. Your envy is understandable if your favorite brand is beaten by Porsche, id just say get used to it like the rest of us.
@@Ardonn porsche does what they want to do!? Stop talking crap!!!! That’s the only thing they can actually do lol……. Other manufacturers doesn’t just do sport cars but also significantly way more other car models and types. Where do you get the false information about Porsche been there rich!? Stfu!!!!
@@Ardonn I’m not trying to disagree with you in just pointing the fact that Porsche has only/just been doing sport cars for decades so don’t think they are best because they only make one product! The other manufacturers are really capable despite making all those variations. I have no envy here lol….. also I’m waiting for the proper tesla dedicated sport car which is going to run circles around the 911! The tesla plaid already does 0-60 in 1,9s being a family sedan just wait and see what their sport car will do, they also have way more money than Porsche and the VAG group….
To conquer the mountain at all in a race car is epic, but to think this was conquered in a pretty much standard road car and to actually win! That's just incredible 👏🏻 Fantastic
@@billdexhart5179 Yeah, misleading title and the truth was pretty well obscured in the video too. One would think this is an official Porsche effort with such spin...
@@pistonburner6448 true that, but 2nd in a street car.. on a mountain dominated by race built machines is amazing nonetheless.. but yeee title needs a little re-work xD
@@YeahItsYourBoyG ...on a mountain event with only a handful of amateurs participating, where the level of competition is extremely questionable. What race classes were those race cars built to conform to or which classes did they approximately equate to? How competitive were the constructors of those race cars? A Fiat 500 Abarth can be a race car, and a McLaren Senna or back in the 90's a Maserati MC12 were street cars. We all know BMW 325i endurance racers all around regional tracks, or the Dacia Logan race car that competed in the Nurburgring 24h, there have been Citroen 2CV race cars...just being a 'race car' says nothing about the pace. I'd wager that the Mitsubishi Lancer that the Porsche pretty narrowly beat wasn't some exceptionally fast factory supported nearly-Formula 1 machine with a superstar driver at the wheel...
Porsche excels in understating its products. And the awesome results and victories amaze the competitors. This has been going on for decades and decades. With the right drivers, unbeatable !
@@artansadiki3244 EVs will have its place but hopefully it stay in china bc fuck them for destroying nature extracting raw materials for lithium ion batteries. they are pushing EVs now after pushing covid, vaccine and tiktok. hope the US deletes them from the map.
I can absolutely recommend the 000 magazines. Proud owner of two issues. A nice magazine with almost little to no advertising, with amazing photography and Porsche backstories.
I've never seen a magazine go more all-out than 000 in their content and presentation. It's expensive, yes, but you are supporting record-breaking Pikes Peak runs! I got in at the Prototyp issue. No regrets.
Yeah, it always looks slow in onboard camera. I take my TTS to mountains a lot and film the runs. Then I look at it later and it seems so slow when I was actually driving with close to 1G at corners.
I live in Colorado and frequently enjoy hustling my cars over various mountain passes, but some passes are scarier than others with lots of sheer drop-offs and with no guardrails. I recently went over Cottonwood pass (might have been that same weekend) in the rain and fog and I was white-knuckle driving at about 5 mph with just 25 to 50 feet of visibility, it was scary. I can't imagine racing a car up those dangerous switchbacks in the fog like shown in the video. That is pure craziness or courage or something.
Truly amazing. All credit to the car & driver. Everything looked like slow motion in that there was no big drama's or having to wrestle the car to make it race up the hill. Everything was just very calm and easy looking. Surely there can't be a better advert for Porsche and the 911 Turbo. The every day street car that can race a Mountain in terrible conditions and come out on top.
My father-in-law had a 911 Turbo S Cabriolet. White, red interior, lots of options. We gushed over it and had a blast pushing it on the windy roads of the Wasatch mountains in Utah. He recently passed away from a freak accident, so the 911 sits in the garage. My mother-in-law takes it out periodically not knowing or appreciating the masterpiece it is.
Yeah, everyone here is just Porsche this, Tesla that and I'm here thinking that Donner is just really good. Anyone else in the Porsche, with those conditions, wouldn't even get close to his time.
The conditions favoured the 4WD and safety systems of the 911 Turbo S. And of course those turbos can really spool up in the cold mountain conditions. Amazing drive.
That's the whole impressive thing: even with turbo or supercharging, thanks to less oxygen in the air at higher altitudes combustion engines have less power the higher the sealevel. Charging compensated that a little. But electric motors and batteries don't have that problem. They don't need oxygen. So it's even more impresive that a standard 911 Turbo S was able to do that in that manner. As for VTG turbos: they are used in Diesel engines for 2 decades already, but Porsche was able to get materials that withstand the higher exhaust temperatures of petrol/gasoline engines at high rpm full throttle for long. (One reason they are that expensive)
One of the things I love the most about any sort of racing is when the camera is focused inside, everything looks frantic. Then when things move outside, everything looks calm and composed. Incredible job to Donner and to Carfection on the film
To take nothing away from Donner's epic drive, weather conditions impacted the fields so greatly that simply the time of when you ran became the major determinant of your results. When you're talking about something like a hill climb event where only one car runs at a time, that cannot be ignored.
Yes that's what I've done with all my race cars (911s) drive to the track run in my class and drive home after. It is the spirit of the sport! Thanks for the ride along David.
incredible Driver and Incredible Car. the 992 Turbo has to be the best Car in the world right now ! . most likely would've done a much better time too, had it not been literally invisible at the top end of the Climb ! crazy!
Henry and these Carfection films could be shown in theaters as a full fledged Hollywood production they're that good. I'm so impressed and congrats to David for hustling that 992 up the Peak.
I started in print and said "print is dead!" - 20 years ago. From my perspective now, I wass absolutely wrong. Print is the ´touch´, no smart phone or laptop will ever have. It´s about chilling at the beach with your favourite car-magazine. Absolute brilliant ride
About half the size balls of the Isle of Mann TT bikers who literally dodge death (many actually die) every year. They race on narrower roads than this with kerbs, walls, and actually race against each other side by side at 200mph.
Wait ✋ until winter, buy a set of all season or winter tires now when they are cheap and drive it on snow somewhere to go on a ski holiday. Even offer to drive whist your friends ski or pick them up from the airport. This will give you a learning window at a much slower pace and time where you can do the same roads with a lower grip. Use the all season tires in the rain to push the limits and in the spring you will have your current Pilot Sport Cup 2 ready to take it to another envelope
@@alanmay7929 Tell that to the Carrera GT engineers that were told to stop work because they got reassigned to the "new back then" cayenne SUV. Lol they do mom/pop SUVs as well and more so nowadays, contrary to your other comment that "Porsche 'litteraly' has been doing that and nothing else"
@@amorag59 are you actually serious!? You compare Porsche to manufacturers that have been making not just cars but bus, trucks, pick trucks, bus, vans………commercial vehicles…….
@@jasonchatham4170 In the real world there are cops on every street corner so faster is irrelevant. A Bugatti Chiron is perfect for cruising and bragging rights.
Great video! Nice to see the run, at least what was possible given the foggy conditions. The result of a production based car that you can buy is amazing. Not some GT product limited to special people or 1 of 2 hypercar! If BMW Motorsport is paying attention, build an M3 Touring for the production class! Show what the platform can do. Not just another oversized SUV. If you can beat GT and race cars in this event that would get people's attention. That is why Porsche has real pedigree.
Excellence is the original Porsche magazine. I fell in love with Porsche after riding in my uncle's blue 911 SC targa as a teen in the 80's. I like how he kept driving it all the way home. I remember back when Pike's Peek was still dirt. Thank you.
I see lots of comments regarding the 911 Turbo S but the star to me is Mr. Donner. The man is legend. And with the conditions as they were it showed through even more. I mean, give me that 911 Turbo S and I'll show you how slow it can be lol.
Brilliant video as always Henry and team , watching him drive you could he called upon 3 generations of racing Pikes Peak racing history and got into his Zen state of calm mind and took off up the mountain and never had to bring the rear end of the 911 back in line and he never showed any difficulty from the over shoulder camera view, the engine was never high up near redline ,he was very collected the whole time, you must admit there are few drivers who know the course as well as David Donner does, meanwhile on street tires, Michelin Cup 2rs and in the Atrocious conditions he was only 16 seconds off the record he wanted to win just incredible, Brilliant overall 👍
I actually think this video has a significant weakness. Of course the sections showing the driver and road are relevant, but it's the first 5 or so minutes that are pretty disappointing. There's a few shots that are engaging - but most seem to be very much 'style over substance'. Yes, we know it's good to tease interest, and capture elements of the overall subject, but it's ended up being an incoherent and unsatisfying collection of randomness. Too little vehicle noise. Edits too short to visually convey the meaningful content. Too little of the geographic context of the track. Too little matching of visual to narrated audio. Focus on the dialogue, and the images tell very little. Try to extract some impressions or information from the visual, and much of the fairly slow and vague descriptions, just fade into nothing.
It's always been my dream to drive Pikes Peak, and I did so in a rental Chevy Impala with my wife riding shotgun on a trip to Colorado Springs. I remember being very disappointed they had completed paving of the entire road. She was so terrified of the views and lack of guardrails she actually stopped talking to me for a while. At the summit we both got symptoms of hypoxia. Pikes peak is no joke.
@@sambow7005 that fucking electric pos would have gotten smoked it has shit brakes and would over heat and catch fire or the battery would die grow a brain
Just a Broke Firefighter but late nineties owned a Silver & Black 1973 911S. Owned it for a few years and sold it for $10,500 😩 That was right before they went through the Roof! These Newer 911’s are Truly Amazing Cars, not cheap but Amazing! This Video was very Nicely done!👍
I really hope there will be more competition in the production class. I'd love to see supercars or hypercars race to the top of that mountain with no regard to the cars cost!
Absolutely stunning video. Great story, so much in lifetimes of real racing. Porsche to crown it all as well, as good as it gets 👍🏻👊🏻... Very well done guys, this was a true pleasue to watch..
This is the car I was most interested in from this year’s PPIHC. Well, besides the Hoonipig. So grateful Carfection have done such a bang up job on this! Thank you!
Great graphics on the car. Being sponsored by 000 Magazine & seeing the print sheet graphics & hearing the guy say the print isn't dead made me want to buy the magazine. Great drive btw. Atb.
Congrats. Not to long a drive home :) My Pikes Peak story was driving all night from Iowa (drinking double expresso's and chewing RedMan). Arrived at Pike's Peak and boarded Cog Train. I am a private pilot and flew at 10-12k a lot. I had never had altitude sickness before, but I was a wreck. My well rested family found it amusing. As I was suffering a splitting headache a group walked up and included a 70 year old woman celebrating her birthday with the climb...I felt like quite the wuss. lol. As a Porsche GTS keeper I am glad to see PCar leading the charge up The Peak.
Absolutely amazing. I'm glad I got told the ending before seeing the run, because I would have thought setting off in those conditions at that pace would result in certain death. Also notice how the established racers tend to be of a wily certain age - well done sir!!!!
What a great video. Good job guys. As a 63yr old I understand I have maybe 20 years left on this planet. Death is made easier for me seeing the future of the combustion engine end. Nothing can replace the sound of a combustion engine, nothing. I just thank God that I lived during this time. Their is a new Sheriff in town, her name is EV, and she is silent. So sad but it's the future, and no one can stop it. I will miss that sound.
The Porsche 911 Turbo. Since its first inception in the 930 911, it looked simple, it didnt look super fast, and the Turbo name always had the same philosophy, Looks Mundane, But has the performance To kill you, just like "The Widowmaker" 930. That aura never left the 911 turbos, its fascinating.
The interviews and the story was great, but the side camera angle made lose interest during the run. Frustrating when you want to see the road and the camera spends half of the time looking elsewhere. Thank you for the video nonetheless!
Walter Rohl says that the objective is to make a corner as straight as possible with as little steering input possible, to be fast. This run personifies that. Fast is smooth, smooth is fast.
I did that run back in 2006 in my Toyota Prius and I was able to do it all out in 10 flat. You just need to spend a lot of time running it on the sim and playing with tire pressures until you strike a balance and learn the curves. I also did plenty of strength training to get my body in peak condition. I did upgrade the tires to some better road tires. The Prius is a pretty slippery design but I still duct taped the sunroof. I also ran premium fuel and conditioned the battery cells. The morning of my record attempt I treated my team to breakfast at Denny’s where I ordered a Grand Slam. I skipped the syrup as it’s not very healthy. My team headed to the top as I was only going for an uphill record. At 6:40 am. the clock started and I was off. Even though I practiced this on the sims and ran it over and over again in my head, the run up the hill was grueling. I did have my iPod hooked up and was listening to the Beatles greatest hits volume 1. At the half way point I still had a full charge on the batteries but the catalytic converter started smoking and then caught fire. During the middle of the Beatles greatest hits volume 2, the catalytic converter melted and fell off. It felt like I now had been awarded the Hellcat Redeye engine upgrade as the Prius gained massive power. I finally reached the peak, crossed the finish marker and got my time, I did it and I was exhausted! With the Beatles greatest hits volume 12 playing in the background, dash clock reading 4:40 and a small brush fire near the bottom of the mountain, I did my Victory / Pee Pee dance and swore I’d never spend another 10 hours in that shit box again. After pushing it over the cliff, me and my 3 friends jumped in their newer model Prius and headed back down. We rolled into Denny’s at around 6 am the next day and with fully charged battery cells. I had the syrup!
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Nice you omitted the "production car" from the title... Great video nonetheless.
000 needs a UK distributor. Delivery costs from the US or EU are insane.
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Eats EVs for breakfast? Was it faster than the VW IDR?
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The ending! "instead of loading the car up on a truck, he continued to drive it all the way home". This is why I love Porsche, you can win the race and then casually drive home in the same car.
This case didn't even have to change tires..lol
And police see you as a ricer vw beetle, while they look at lambos and be like 😠
Porches really are amazing!
@@mikeypolstein272 for sure…
Second to none!
Driving it home is the ultimate flex!
Save a ton on trucks & trailers.
It’s marketing
@@BARATTI99 But with a Turbo S actually easily possible. In Germany there is a 991.2 Turbo S of 2020 by PP-Performance, tuned to 1000 BHP with stock gearbox and even most of the engine stock - they made 45 runs in a row on a drag race (in between all the R35 GT R with 1000 BHP needed to fix stuff and they already were running with a custom gearbox) and it had not a single problem. Afterwards the owner used it again as his daily. The 911 Turbo S is the best allround supercar ever built... it's a racecar, a highway car, a daily for 365 days a year. It's fast, turns like a beast and it still is comfy.
A true testiment of Porsche's engineering, 911 Turbo S is a different beast
Showing why the Turbo S is the sleeper supercar. Great conditions to show the strengths of the vehicle, mega traction despite a cold wet road and balance under breaking and across the bumps. It’s shocking how fast it is and it sounds like it’s hardly working compared to the GT Porsches. What a machine! Also, credit to the driver who kept the speed up despite white out conditions for the top third. Very brave.
Porsche. There is no substitute. 😎
That last shot of him driving casually away home after a crazy PP climb........ That's ONLY PORSCHE !!!!
I was there for the event and I’ll tell ya, the conditions were no joke. Amazing drive.
I kept hoping he could see the road better than I could see it.
I really have to wonder if he might of cracked 10 minutes with a dry track. Those conditions where garbage cracking drive.
@@lazww The fog was like a wall in areas, overnight rain and snow, 2 degrees Celsius, damp track. A clear sunny day…I think he was cracking the 10 min mark.
This movie is another statement for why we love Porsches! 🤘
000 and Carfection - Pete and Henry - David and Porsche - Pikes Peak and the difficult conditions. Driving it all home after the hillclimb - priceless. Porsche. There is no substitute.
911 Turbo is the best car ever made.
c4s awd is close behind.
Porsche never fails to amaze
Lol……. Porsche litteraly has been doing that and nothing else it’s not like Mercedes’ that makes bus, trucks, vans……
@@alanmay7929 What?
@@alanmay7929 What? Porsche does what Porsche wants to do. They are the richest sports/supercar manufacturer in the world MILES ahead of the rest for a reason. They also have more money than brands like Audi who sells alot of family vehicles, thats because what they make is made to last and it performs every generation. You can't say that about the other brands who makes supercars, thats not a fanboy statement it's a fact. Most winning brand in motorsport history and most succesful sportscar maker in history. Your envy is understandable if your favorite brand is beaten by Porsche, id just say get used to it like the rest of us.
@@Ardonn porsche does what they want to do!? Stop talking crap!!!! That’s the only thing they can actually do lol……. Other manufacturers doesn’t just do sport cars but also significantly way more other car models and types. Where do you get the false information about Porsche been there rich!? Stfu!!!!
@@Ardonn I’m not trying to disagree with you in just pointing the fact that Porsche has only/just been doing sport cars for decades so don’t think they are best because they only make one product! The other manufacturers are really capable despite making all those variations. I have no envy here lol….. also I’m waiting for the proper tesla dedicated sport car which is going to run circles around the 911! The tesla plaid already does 0-60 in 1,9s being a family sedan just wait and see what their sport car will do, they also have way more money than Porsche and the VAG group….
This mans track knowledge really shows in these conditions. Full trust in himself and the car
The 911 is superb in so many ways.
To conquer the mountain at all in a race car is epic, but to think this was conquered in a pretty much standard road car and to actually win! That's just incredible 👏🏻 Fantastic
He didn't win. He came second. He was beaten by a 2018 Wolf TSC-FS.
@@billdexhart5179 Yeah, misleading title and the truth was pretty well obscured in the video too. One would think this is an official Porsche effort with such spin...
@@pistonburner6448 true that, but 2nd in a street car.. on a mountain dominated by race built machines is amazing nonetheless.. but yeee title needs a little re-work xD
@@YeahItsYourBoyG ...on a mountain event with only a handful of amateurs participating, where the level of competition is extremely questionable.
What race classes were those race cars built to conform to or which classes did they approximately equate to? How competitive were the constructors of those race cars? A Fiat 500 Abarth can be a race car, and a McLaren Senna or back in the 90's a Maserati MC12 were street cars. We all know BMW 325i endurance racers all around regional tracks, or the Dacia Logan race car that competed in the Nurburgring 24h, there have been Citroen 2CV race cars...just being a 'race car' says nothing about the pace.
I'd wager that the Mitsubishi Lancer that the Porsche pretty narrowly beat wasn't some exceptionally fast factory supported nearly-Formula 1 machine with a superstar driver at the wheel...
The current record is an astonishing 07:57.148 and was set by Romain Dumas in the all-electric Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak in 2018
I love how this channel just shows the video of the hill climb without any narration or music. Just let people watch and enjoy.
I was there, the weather was insane. I can't believe how fast this car was, says a lot about the driver.
Fog and wet roads ... I've done my share of track racing, and wouldn't have even bothered running up in those crappy conditions.
Take a look at Robin Shute winning running absolutely nuts.
Half a minute faster than the second place Tesla Model 3 in the Exhibition class? This 911 is a rocketship 😲😃. I can't wait to watch the full story :)
And the hybrid Turbo will be on another level. Again. Think 918, but much faster.
Well, pikes peak isn’t exactly a straight road. So, those Teslas can’t really match it.
@@guri131 bruh, so you are saying Tesla on 2nd place and it's bad on this? Lmao. Get over it dude, Tesla is literally made for quick acceleration.
@@guri131 yeah but the EVs have a massive advantage as they don’t lose power due to altitude, which is why stuff like the IDR were EV
@@thebarkingmouse yep much modern and significantly way faster 😂 😆
Porsche excels in understating its products. And the awesome results and victories amaze the competitors. This has been going on for decades and decades. With the right drivers, unbeatable !
The new 911 turbo S is a legend. Awesome performance. Internal combustion rules!
Internal combustion?! Booooo. I'm a fan of steam, and none of that fancy modern combustion stuff will do.
@@diaspo im also a fan of steam and i love the torque of steam. But a v10 singing is just ahhh eargasm
@@diaspo you and your fancy steam machines. He should’ve run barefoot up the peak himself.
Manpower rules!
@@diaspo i love steam engines. Same with ICE. Its EVs that are laughable.
@@artansadiki3244 EVs will have its place but hopefully it stay in china bc fuck them for destroying nature extracting raw materials for lithium ion batteries. they are pushing EVs now after pushing covid, vaccine and tiktok. hope the US deletes them from the map.
911 turbo s is the last word in luxury and performance
Pikes Peak and a full cockpit view in this car? Pure Heaven. Thank you x100 !
I can absolutely recommend the 000 magazines. Proud owner of two issues. A nice magazine with almost little to no advertising, with amazing photography and Porsche backstories.
I've never seen a magazine go more all-out than 000 in their content and presentation. It's expensive, yes, but you are supporting record-breaking Pikes Peak runs! I got in at the Prototyp issue. No regrets.
...and apparently their content is the advertising. Like this story. Advertising.
@@pistonburner6448 Porsche doesn't need advertising tho, everyone knows there is no substitute
Experience folks, this dude probably has ever turn memorized in his head.
Excellent driving.
Onboard looks so slow, like a casual Sunday drive.... and then you see an exterior shot. That's actually INSANE!
You couldn't see his run.........terrible camera view!
A side on view of the driver without any view of where he is actually going....
Brilliant 👏
Yeah, it always looks slow in onboard camera. I take my TTS to mountains a lot and film the runs. Then I look at it later and it seems so slow when I was actually driving with close to 1G at corners.
I live in Colorado and frequently enjoy hustling my cars over various mountain passes, but some passes are scarier than others with lots of sheer drop-offs and with no guardrails. I recently went over Cottonwood pass (might have been that same weekend) in the rain and fog and I was white-knuckle driving at about 5 mph with just 25 to 50 feet of visibility, it was scary. I can't imagine racing a car up those dangerous switchbacks in the fog like shown in the video. That is pure craziness or courage or something.
If the track is clear and you know it like the back of your hand, it's a non-issue.
@@m4rvinmartian "a non issue" is slightly stretching the reality...
This guy knows this course so well, I guess in a sense he’s almost driving blindfolded when you consider the velocity.
Truly amazing.
All credit to the car & driver. Everything looked like slow motion in that there was no big drama's or having to wrestle the car to make it race up the hill. Everything was just very calm and easy looking.
Surely there can't be a better advert for Porsche and the 911 Turbo. The every day street car that can race a Mountain in terrible conditions and come out on top.
My father-in-law had a 911 Turbo S Cabriolet. White, red interior, lots of options. We gushed over it and had a blast pushing it on the windy roads of the Wasatch mountains in Utah. He recently passed away from a freak accident, so the 911 sits in the garage. My mother-in-law takes it out periodically not knowing or appreciating the masterpiece it is.
Owning one of these would be a dream.
Too sad we lost the old road. The road dance by Vatanen and the magic Peugeot 405 is timeless.
And the mac muller Toyota Tacoma
@@alanmay7929 of course with the Escudo of Monster Tajima
Walter Röhrl in the Audi S1, they had to change the rules to stop him.
Yeah, I've lost count of the number of times I've watched Climb Dance.
The most boss move ever to drive the car home. It’s the equivalent of a mic-drop after a crazy rap battle
Tesla S plaid: left the chat
Tesla S prototype: me too
Was never in the chat
Difficult conditions , mastered by one man.
Proving that having a fast car , is not enough.
Yeah, everyone here is just Porsche this, Tesla that and I'm here thinking that Donner is just really good. Anyone else in the Porsche, with those conditions, wouldn't even get close to his time.
The conditions favoured the 4WD and safety systems of the 911 Turbo S. And of course those turbos can really spool up in the cold mountain conditions. Amazing drive.
Not really. 2nd place is also AWD and full of safety crap.
@@currycel470 Variable geometry isn't as special as you think it is
@@currycel470 variable fin size? u sure about that? I thought the fins change the „angle of attack“. That would be a pretty common vtg turbo.
That's the whole impressive thing: even with turbo or supercharging, thanks to less oxygen in the air at higher altitudes combustion engines have less power the higher the sealevel. Charging compensated that a little. But electric motors and batteries don't have that problem. They don't need oxygen. So it's even more impresive that a standard 911 Turbo S was able to do that in that manner.
As for VTG turbos: they are used in Diesel engines for 2 decades already, but Porsche was able to get materials that withstand the higher exhaust temperatures of petrol/gasoline engines at high rpm full throttle for long. (One reason they are that expensive)
I did the drive in a borrowed USAF Dodge Caravan, still one of the best drives of my life
One of the things I love the most about any sort of racing is when the camera is focused inside, everything looks frantic. Then when things move outside, everything looks calm and composed. Incredible job to Donner and to Carfection on the film
One of the greatest car videos on UA-cam.
Hands down the best car ever🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
To take nothing away from Donner's epic drive, weather conditions impacted the fields so greatly that simply the time of when you ran became the major determinant of your results. When you're talking about something like a hill climb event where only one car runs at a time, that cannot be ignored.
Yes that's what I've done with all my race cars (911s) drive to the track run in my class and drive home after. It is the spirit of the sport! Thanks for the ride along David.
incredible Driver and Incredible Car. the 992 Turbo has to be the best Car in the world right now ! . most likely would've done a much better time too, had it not been literally invisible at the top end of the Climb ! crazy!
Nah, the GT3 (RS) is much cooler and better
At last a Turbo that sounds great.👍
Henry and these Carfection films could be shown in theaters as a full fledged Hollywood production they're that good. I'm so impressed and congrats to David for hustling that 992 up the Peak.
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I started in print and said "print is dead!" - 20 years ago. From my perspective now, I wass absolutely wrong. Print is the ´touch´, no smart phone or laptop will ever have. It´s about chilling at the beach with your favourite car-magazine. Absolute brilliant ride
Unreal. The top section was beyond belief. Amazing
Imagine how much faster that time would have been in the dry....
He would have had an insane run. Definitely broken well above the #1 record.
The name of the driver says it all. Donner is the german word for thunder.
The balls on this gigachad to race up through the clouds and win. Beautiful story
About half the size balls of the Isle of Mann TT bikers who literally dodge death (many actually die) every year. They race on narrower roads than this with kerbs, walls, and actually race against each other side by side at 200mph.
@@DjNikGnashers tl;dr and ot
@@DjNikGnashers cool story 😆
@@mannyfox8089 Troll alert with silly childish over-used bs.
@@DjNikGnashers my dad can beat up your dad
I bought one of these about 2 months ago and I’m still blown away by the thing. I just need to learn how get the most out of it
Wait ✋ until winter, buy a set of all season or winter tires now when they are cheap and drive it on snow somewhere to go on a ski holiday. Even offer to drive whist your friends ski or pick them up from the airport. This will give you a learning window at a much slower pace and time where you can do the same roads with a lower grip. Use the all season tires in the rain to push the limits and in the spring you will have your current Pilot Sport Cup 2 ready to take it to another envelope
Mblondon850 are you coming out of a manual transmission car by chance ? 4 years later I'm still on a bit of a learning curve w my PDK Turbo S
@@jclar3565 How so?
He looks very relaxed driving up the peak.
This channel is better filmed and produced than anything car related on TV, Netflix, UA-cam...
What a statement of what a Porsche with a decent diver is capable of. I cant tell much but I can tell that this man had a lot of fun. Cheers, mate.
Brilliant drive, brilliant course, brilliant car. Brilliant film!
Agree 100%! 👍
What a great tribute to de driver (and his amazing skills) and Porsche (for what it's been doing all of it's history) !!
Porsche is on top of all motorsports they're in. Looking forward to Porsche in F1 again.
Porsche only does sport so nothing special here lol…..
@@alanmay7929 Everythings special. Its Porsche
@@alanmay7929 Tell that to the Carrera GT engineers that were told to stop work because they got reassigned to the "new back then" cayenne SUV. Lol they do mom/pop SUVs as well and more so nowadays, contrary to your other comment that "Porsche 'litteraly' has been doing that and nothing else"
@@amorag59 are you actually serious!? You compare Porsche to manufacturers that have been making not just cars but bus, trucks, pick trucks, bus, vans………commercial vehicles…….
@@alanmay7929 You must be blind because I made no comparisons. I pointed out that your statement that they only do "sports [cars]" is false.
Stock TurboS is still a world beater. If I had insane money for a car I would pick the Porsche over everything
Even over a Bugatti Chiron?
@@KP-xi4bj yep. Porsche would be far more usable and is faster in the real world (other than straights of course)
@@jasonchatham4170 In the real world there are cops on every street corner so faster is irrelevant. A Bugatti Chiron is perfect for cruising and bragging rights.
@@KP-xi4bj true. But I prefer sleepers and most non car people have no idea what a turboS is etc. low profile bro
@@KP-xi4bj yes, even over a Chiron.
Great video! Nice to see the run, at least what was possible given the foggy conditions. The result of a production based car that you can buy is amazing. Not some GT product limited to special people or 1 of 2 hypercar!
If BMW Motorsport is paying attention, build an M3 Touring for the production class! Show what the platform can do. Not just another oversized SUV. If you can beat GT and race cars in this event that would get people's attention. That is why Porsche has real pedigree.
Excellence is the original Porsche magazine. I fell in love with Porsche after riding in my uncle's blue 911 SC targa as a teen in the 80's. I like how he kept driving it all the way home. I remember back when Pike's Peek was still dirt. Thank you.
I see lots of comments regarding the 911 Turbo S but the star to me is Mr. Donner. The man is legend. And with the conditions as they were it showed through even more.
I mean, give me that 911 Turbo S and I'll show you how slow it can be lol.
Brilliant video as always Henry and team , watching him drive you could he called upon 3 generations of racing Pikes Peak racing history and got into his Zen state of calm mind and took off up the mountain and never had to bring the rear end of the 911 back in line and he never showed any difficulty from the over shoulder camera view, the engine was never high up near redline ,he was very collected the whole time, you must admit there are few drivers who know the course as well as David Donner does, meanwhile on street tires,
Michelin Cup 2rs and in the Atrocious conditions he was only 16 seconds off the record he wanted to win just incredible, Brilliant overall 👍
I actually think this video has a significant weakness.
Of course the sections showing the driver and road are relevant, but it's the first 5 or so minutes that are pretty disappointing.
There's a few shots that are engaging - but most seem to be very much 'style over substance'.
Yes, we know it's good to tease interest, and capture elements of the overall subject, but it's ended up being an incoherent and unsatisfying collection of randomness.
Too little vehicle noise. Edits too short to visually convey the meaningful content. Too little of the geographic context of the track. Too little matching of visual to narrated audio.
Focus on the dialogue, and the images tell very little. Try to extract some impressions or information from the visual, and much of the fairly slow and vague descriptions, just fade into nothing.
It says a lot for the Porsche brand !!!!!. Brilliant 👍🇦🇺
It's always been my dream to drive Pikes Peak, and I did so in a rental Chevy Impala with my wife riding shotgun on a trip to Colorado Springs. I remember being very disappointed they had completed paving of the entire road. She was so terrified of the views and lack of guardrails she actually stopped talking to me for a while. At the summit we both got symptoms of hypoxia. Pikes peak is no joke.
That man can pedal. What an impressive drive.
He's a good steerer
@@melbguy1 Excellent at flapping that gear paddle too.
"Eats EVs for breakfast"
Loved that.
The Tesla Plaid would have eaten alive the Porsche. The driver had a defrost problem with the windshield.
@@sambow7005 How about we stop comparing EVs and ICEs? Compare an EV vs EV or an ICE vs ICE. Not this.
@@gokulkrishm51 both are production car so it’s a fair comparaison and Pikes peak is about a car and the mountain no Mather what it is.
@@sambow7005 But different powertrain. You don't wanna race a V10 F1 and a V6 turbo F1 and call one winner. It's not a fair comparison in my opinion.
@@sambow7005 that fucking electric pos would have gotten smoked it has shit brakes and would over heat and catch fire or the battery would die grow a brain
Just a Broke Firefighter but late nineties owned a Silver & Black 1973 911S. Owned it for a few years and sold it for $10,500 😩 That was right before they went through the Roof! These Newer 911’s are Truly Amazing Cars, not cheap but Amazing! This Video was very Nicely done!👍
This is just goes to show you how good Porsche realty are when you put someone behind the wheel who can freak’n drive. Well done and congrats.
I really hope there will be more competition in the production class. I'd love to see supercars or hypercars race to the top of that mountain with no regard to the cars cost!
Just like my Friday evening drive hone after work in Wales..
Epic..carfection kick car content ass every time. 👌
Absolutely spectacular. Those conditions are mental. Prodigious driving skill. A true champion.
Diabolical conditions but what a drive!!! Fantastic effort, and as always a great vid, Henry and team. Thank you
Not exactly the most musical engine, but damn effective! Unbelievable smooth driving for those conditions.
Absolutely stunning video. Great story, so much in lifetimes of real racing. Porsche to crown it all as well, as good as it gets 👍🏻👊🏻... Very well done guys, this was a true pleasue to watch..
This is the car I was most interested in from this year’s PPIHC. Well, besides the Hoonipig.
So grateful Carfection have done such a bang up job on this! Thank you!
Thanks Carfection, that was a fantastic short film. What a car… what a driver!
Great graphics on the car. Being sponsored by 000 Magazine & seeing the print sheet graphics & hearing the guy say the print isn't dead made me want to buy the magazine. Great drive btw. Atb.
Every mm of grip needed. PTV FTW!
Congrats. Not to long a drive home :) My Pikes Peak story was driving all night from Iowa (drinking double expresso's and chewing RedMan). Arrived at Pike's Peak and boarded Cog Train. I am a private pilot and flew at 10-12k a lot. I had never had altitude sickness before, but I was a wreck. My well rested family found it amusing. As I was suffering a splitting headache a group walked up and included a 70 year old woman celebrating her birthday with the climb...I felt like quite the wuss. lol. As a Porsche GTS keeper I am glad to see PCar leading the charge up The Peak.
The in car and fly by sound merge is brilliant! Thanks for that!
I'll never be able to afford a car but, if I had any choice...It would be the Porsche Turbo S.
Beast mode car and drive, especially given the conditions! 💪
What an amazing video. Thank you for continuing to produce content for those who love cars and driving.
That man knows that track as the palm of his hand.
Turbo S. Nuff said.
The introduction was very well written.
Absolutely amazing. I'm glad I got told the ending before seeing the run, because I would have thought setting off in those conditions at that pace would result in certain death.
Also notice how the established racers tend to be of a wily certain age - well done sir!!!!
What a great video. Good job guys. As a 63yr old I understand I have maybe 20 years left on this planet. Death is made easier for me seeing the future of the combustion engine end. Nothing can replace the sound of a combustion engine, nothing. I just thank God that I lived during this time. Their is a new Sheriff in town, her name is EV, and she is silent. So sad but it's the future, and no one can stop it. I will miss that sound.
Porsche = German Engineering at it´s best.
An amazing achievement to Porsche traction control!
Great video! 000 magazine is incredible. In the design industry, we've been hearing "print is dead" for my entire 20 year career lol
so well done, thank you for making this. TTS rules!
The Porsche 911 Turbo. Since its first inception in the 930 911, it looked simple, it didnt look super fast, and the Turbo name always had the same philosophy, Looks Mundane, But has the performance To kill you, just like "The Widowmaker" 930. That aura never left the 911 turbos, its fascinating.
With the GT3 RS being launched this month, hopefully work will begin or perhaps has begun on the next generation GT2 RS.
Thank you for putting Colorado on like that! My home thanks you!🫡🫡❤️
Even though the weather was foggy, he did an amazing job. Well done !
The interviews and the story was great, but the side camera angle made lose interest during the run. Frustrating when you want to see the road and the camera spends half of the time looking elsewhere. Thank you for the video nonetheless!
"Print isn't dead" nice motive.
Walter Rohl says that the objective is to make a corner as straight as possible with as little steering input possible, to be fast. This run personifies that. Fast is smooth, smooth is fast.
Good job 👏🏻 and that’s one more reason for why I just love my 992 Turbo S 😍
I did that run back in 2006 in my Toyota Prius and I was able to do it all out in 10 flat.
You just need to spend a lot of time running it on the sim and playing with tire pressures until you strike a balance and learn the curves. I also did plenty of strength training to get my body in peak condition. I did upgrade the tires to some better road tires. The Prius is a pretty slippery design but I still duct taped the sunroof. I also ran premium fuel and conditioned the battery cells.
The morning of my record attempt I treated my team to breakfast at Denny’s where I ordered a Grand Slam. I skipped the syrup as it’s not very healthy. My team headed to the top as I was only going for an uphill record.
At 6:40 am. the clock started and I was off. Even though I practiced this on the sims and ran it over and over again in my head, the run up the hill was grueling. I did have my iPod hooked up and was listening to the Beatles greatest hits volume 1.
At the half way point I still had a full charge on the batteries but the catalytic converter started smoking and then caught fire.
During the middle of the Beatles greatest hits volume 2, the catalytic converter melted and fell off. It felt like I now had been awarded the Hellcat Redeye engine upgrade as the Prius gained massive power.
I finally reached the peak, crossed the finish marker and got my time,
I did it and I was exhausted!
With the Beatles greatest hits volume 12 playing in the background, dash clock reading 4:40 and a small brush fire near the bottom of the mountain, I did my Victory / Pee Pee dance and swore I’d never spend another 10 hours in that shit box again.
After pushing it over the cliff, me and my 3 friends jumped in their newer model Prius and headed back down. We rolled into Denny’s at around 6 am the next day and with fully charged battery cells.
I had the syrup!
🤣🙄
I rode up the mountain last week. It was intimidating at 20 mph. Crazy to think of going at it in a Turbo S 🫣