Picture: Ford PerformancePikes Peak champion and outright file holder Romain Dumas made it simply two corners into his try on the hill this weekend earlier than his Ford Lightning Supertruck floor to a halt on the right track. After getting begin and rocketing up the hill, the truck merely shut off. After biking the beginning process a few occasions, the truck was able to roll once more, and zoomed off. The fault value Dumas no less than 26 seconds within the first sector of the mountain, however that didn’t cease him from setting the quickest run of the day to win his fifth PPIHC title.On Sunday the Lightning Supertruck made it up the hill in eight minutes 53.55 seconds, simply ten seconds faster than the second-placed automotive. Clearly there was numerous time left on the desk, what with the truck breaking and all, however Dumas didn’t even handle to beat his 2023 time within the Ford Supervan 4, which ran an eight minute 47.68 second time. Each of his Ford EV efforts fall wanting his run within the Volkswagen ID.R, nevertheless, which set the outright Pikes Peak file in 2018 with a seven minute 57.14 second run. Romain Dumas Turns into the PPIHC 2024 King of the Mountain | PIKES PEAK WINNING Race Day OnboardHere’s Frenchman Dumas on the truck’s energy problem:“This run was very tough. I don’t know what occurred at the beginning, simply the automotive switched off utterly. It by no means occurred earlier than. I didn’t panic, I simply checked out all of the numbers, every little thing was trying OK. I made an influence cycle by myself as a result of the primary was purple. I do two occasions the facility cycle and restart, and instantly it was working once more.”I, for one, hope Ford improves the Supertruck even additional and runs it once more in 2025 with Dumas taking one other shot at his general file time. That might be cool.