

“The Director of Competition will determine the eligibility of a vehicle for the Unlimited Division,” the rules begin. The Unlimited Division’s “rules” are 64 words of comedy gold. The Pikes Peak Hill Climb is racing almost without restriction. SIGN UP FOR THE TRACK CLUB BY R&T FOR MORE EXCLUSIVE STORIES

This story originally appeared in Volume 7 of Road & Track. This is where anything can and does happen. But at Pikes Peak, bears are a shoulder-shrug experience. Have bears wandered around Daytona? Or Indianapolis? Maybe there are some at the Nürburgring? Maybe.

“They’re likely not here for the racing,” says some guy who happens to be within earshot of me.“But they probably have a pretty good view from up there. There’s a bear with her two cubs up a tree above the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb pit area.
