Clip With Bentley Continental GT Setting Pikes Peak Record Is Pure Pleasure

On the famous American hill, the Bentley Continental GT set a new record for production cars. Driven by Rhys Millen, the car managed to take the course in 10:18.488 minutes, 8 seconds faster than the previous record holder, David Donner and his Porsche 911 Turbo S.

And now there’s video to show how it all went down.

On Monday (July 8) Bentley made public an onboard video showing the full ten minutes of Millen’s run up Pikes Peak. And what a sheer delight to watch this is…

The video begins at the starting line at Mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway. The already revved-up engine spurs into life, pulling the car to an incredible speed right before the first left turn.

From there and all the way to the finish line, 14,110 ft (4,300 m) above sea level, we get to his Millen and his Continental tackle all of the course's 156 turns at speeds that averaged 70 mph (113 kph).

The video was shot not with a dashcam, but with a camera mounted to the driver’s helmet.

There is a second video as well, covering the race build-up, showing helicopter footage of the run and featuring post-race reactions from the Bentley team and Millen himself (also available below). But still the onboard one remains our favorite.

"This is an amazing finish to a wet, snowy 2019 run at Pikes Peak! We came here with one goal in mind, and that was to be the fastest production car up the mountain and set a new record,” Millen said shortly after the race.

"It was an incredible week. Today was a challenge with what Mother Nature threw at us, but the Continental GT held strong all the way to the top, and we are now Number One”.