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"&amp;amp;gt;  Beccy Gordon in a practice run at the 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Although lots of attention at tomorrow&amp;#039;s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb will be paid to Nobuhiro &amp;quot;Monster&amp;quot; Tajima and Hiroshi Masuoka in their electric hill climb specials (which may be capable of breaking the 10-minute barrier), there&amp;#039;s another driver in the field who will be going much slower but still having lots of fun\u2014Beccy Gordon, who&amp;#039;s racing a bone-stock Mitsubish i-MiEV in the 7-car Electric Vehicle Class. I had a chance to chat with Beccy\u2014NASCAR star Robby Gordon&amp;#039;s sister and wife of IndyCar driver Ryan Hunter-Reay\u2014on Saturday before the race.  &amp;quot;The only adjustment we&amp;#039;ve made to the car is tire pressures,&amp;quot; jokes the off-road racer. &amp;quot;Well, that and to the mirrors.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s telling the truth. Her 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV really is stock, apart from the requisite safety equipment and removal of the seats. The 49-kilowatt electric motor has not been touched; nor has the 16kWh lithium-ion battery been improved. Beccy adds that even the tires are tiny stock units, size 145/65-15 in front, 175/60-15 in back.   Hiroshi Masuoka, in the 3-motor i-MiEV Evolution  &amp;quot;My teammate (Hiroshi Masuoka, in the 3-motor i-MiEV Evolution) is going up there to win; my goal is to get to the top and prove that the production i-MiEV has what it takes.&amp;quot; Although Beccy has no expectations with regard to an overall time on the now fully paved 12.4-mile course, she says a run in the 14-minute range would be great. She will also be using oxygen during her race up the mountain. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m used to living at sea level,&amp;quot; says Beccy, a Florida resident. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want to get dizzy.&amp;quot; In other Pikes Peak news, Beccy&amp;#039;s teammate Hiroshi Masuoka, a Paris-Dakar legend, crashed in practice at Engineer&amp;#039;s corner, and the whole front of his potent 3-motor i-MiEV Evolution had to be rebuilt. After a new steering rack was flown in from Japan and an all-night thrash, they are testing the car today at Pikes Peak International Raceway. One final note: Porsche factory driver Roman Dumas, in a privateer Porsche 911 GT3, is looking really fast. Will this be the year a road race car finally wins at Pikes Peak? Related posts:  Mitsubishi Electric Race Car to Enter Pikes Peak The Best YouTube Videos from Pikes Peak 2012 Pikes Peak, Fully Charged  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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