Audi Pikes Peak Winner driven by Bobby Unser a winner

On a twisting dirt and gravel road 100 years ago intrepid racers staged the first Race to the Clouds, otherwise known as the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. It was one of the rare times an Unser didn’t win.

For many of the past 50 years one of the racing Unser clan from Albuquerque, N.M., has won the annual summer race over 156+ turns and 12.42 miles. For much of that time the road was still gravel and dirt, now it’s completely paved.

Open-wheel racers have been challenging the 4,720-foot climb to the peak at 14,110 feet on grades averaging 7.2% that entire time, but so have stock cars and sports cars, sedans and coupes.

In 1986 Audi asked Bobby Unser to challenge the “hill” again, and now Top Marques Collectibles, a diecast manufacturer new to the U.S. market, has produced Unser’s Audi in 1/18 scale. Continue reading Die-cast: Top Marque’s Audi Pikes Peak Winner →