Pikes Peak Hill Climb: Mountain, Camera, Action, Crash

“Motorsport is dangerous”. If you’ve ever been to even the smallest, crappiest karting track you will have heard these infuriating words. Over and over again. Before they even let you set eyes on your wheels.

Don’t get us wrong. Motorsport is dangerous, but what’s life without a bit of danger? Now, mainstream rallying is challenging enough with narrow gravel tracks, huge bumps, water splashes and hundreds of mental spectators for drivers to navigate around. But that’s nothing compared to the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb which took place yesterday... for the 90th time.

Pikes Peak for the less topologically knowledgeable of you, is a mahoosive rocky mountain, piercing through the clouds in the American state of Colorado. It towers up to a height of 4,302m, which is pretty damn tall. To give you some context, Pikes Peak is 3.2 times the height of Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest point. But unlike our tiny UK mountains where only bearded, waterproof-clad caravanners dare to tread, they do things differently in the US of A. For a start they drive up to the top.

And unlike the UK’s Vauxhall Cavalier driving caravan crew, our burger eating buddies in the US drive everything from quadbikes to Mitsubishi Evos to mental bespoke racers up the side of the mountain. And sometimes off the side of the mountain too as you’ll see in the videos above. Take a look at the video below to see just how challenging the course is:

Now you've seen some of this year's Pikes Peak crashes, tell us your car crash tales below.