Yahoo Autos Ford SuperTruck wins Pikes Peak in a strong year for automakers
It was a good year for Ford and Romain Dumas this year at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The team took overall victory, and thus the Open Class win, at the time trial. Dumas drove the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck up the course with a time of 8:53.553. He just beat out the entry from race car builder Wolf Racing, who snatched victory last year from Dumas and the Ford SuperVan 4.2.
The SuperTruck run ended up being slower than the SuperVan's though, which finished last year in 8:47.682. Ford reported that there was some unnamed technical issue during the run that brought Dumas and the SuperTruck to a complete stop on the course for a few moments. Ford estimated that it cost the run about 26 seconds. Regardless, that would still leave space between SuperTruck and the overall Pikes Peak record of under 8 minutes. That record is owned by Dumas, but behind the wheel of the VW ID.R.
