Volkswagen’s ID R Pikes Peak race car shows why you should care about electric car racing
By feedback@highgearmedia.com (Jim Resnick) Volkswagen’s Pikes Peak hillclimb race car, called the ID R, obliterated the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb’s Unlimited class record Sunday by 16 seconds. Its Le Mans-prototype looks, complete with overgrown rear wing, were nearly as wild as its overall time up the paved mountain road: 7 minutes, 57.158 seconds. But …read more