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Supermiata is a performance parts supplier in Lake Forest, CA.. Our roots The Supermiata parts brand was founded in 2006 by Emilio Cervantes. His first exposure to the car was as a product manager and sales associate at Rod Millen Motorsport in 1990. Being closely allied with Mazda Motorsports, they were developing various performance parts for the platform before the car …

Returns to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

Rod Millen won the 2-Wheel Drive Showroom Stock division – 13:21.17. Millen drove A Scoupe equipped with the company's new turbocharged, 16-valve, dual overhead camshaft Alpha series engine.

Royalty Return to Pikes Peak for 100th Running

ROD MILLEN – 5-time King of the Mountain. ... his win in the Unlimited division and new course record of 10:04.1 would make headlines in the racing world. Everyone had their eye on breaking that 10-minute barrier. …

Toyota People: motorsport legend Rod Millen

In a motorsport career spanning 45 years, Rod Millen has written himself into the record books time and time again. His prowess on loose-surface rallies and hillclimbs is renowned, as five victories on the challenging Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado attest.. A long and fruitful collaboration with Toyota yielded the outright Pikes Peak course …

Rod Millen Drives Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma Up The

Wooden Block Turns to Toyota Tacoma Pro in 493 Seconds, You Can't Drive It Though Ken Block Gets Hit by Bad Luck at Pikes Peak, 1,400-HP Porsche Is off the Grid 1998 Toyota Tacoma Race Truck Hits ...

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb With Rod …

Rod Millen: Five-Time Pikes Peak Champion ... Rod will again get behind the wheels of his beloved Toyota Tacoma race truck. Interestingly, Rod's Tacoma is a silhouette racer that vaguely looks like the real thing, except for …

Watch In Awe As Rod Millen Drives His Toyota Tacoma At …

Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma features an IMSA-sourced 2.1-liter turbo engine with upwards of 1,000 hp ... the veteran racing driver obviously still has it and remains very handy behind the wheel. ...

Royalty Return to Pikes Peak for 100th Running

Five Time Champion Rod Millen to Showcase Toyota Tacoma. ... The invitation-only event, often referred to as The Race to the Clouds is held annually on the last Sunday of June on Pikes Peak – America's Mountain, near Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The famous 12.42-mile (20 km) course consists of 156 turns, boasts an elevation gain of ...

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Read full article on Hot Rod Online. - Hot Rod Magazine ... Rhys Millen Racing (). He's run rallies and road courses and was the youngest winner ever at Pike's Peak, and now he ...

Cutting Edge, The The story of Kiwi motorsport legend Rod Millen

He won the North American Race and Rally Championship in 1979, 1980 and 1981, then in 1989 Millen achieved perhaps his greatest feat, winning the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, America's second oldest motor-racing event.

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Rod Millen was born March 22, 1952, in New Zealand. As a young man he loved surfing, sailing and driving beach buggies. ... Starting in 1979 Millen started racing a Mazda RX-7 starting a relationship with the manufacturer that lasted over ten years and produced five SCCA ProRally Championships (1981, 1985, 1987, 1988, and 1989) and two North ...

» About Leadfoot Ranch

Rod Millen has spent his motorsports career traveling around the world gaining inspiration for his dream of the ultimate hill climb driveway. The Leadfoot Festival is an exceptional weekend of motorsports motivated by Millen's involvement in hill climbs like Pikes Peak and the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Rod Millen Drives Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma Up The

Father and son, Rod and Rhys, have gathered seven overall victories at Pikes Peak in over 40 years of racing. Rod's first outing on the mountain happened behind the …

With Rhys Millen

Five-time King of the Mountain, Rod Millen, all-dirt course record holder, Pikes Peak icon and Hall of Famer returned to the mountain in 2022 for the 100th Running of the second oldest race in America proving he still has …

Iconic 1998 Toyota Tacoma Race Truck Will Return to Pikes …

Two decades and a fully-paved course later, Millen's Tacoma-badged racer is no less extreme. In a very different time at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Rod Millen …

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb With Rod …

Rodney K. "Rod" Millen is a motorsport legend with multiple wins at the vaunted Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.Now 71 years of age, Rod might be too old for such stuff. But the legend isn't letting age dictate his will …

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New Zealand racing legend, Rod Millen opens his private grounds at the Leadfoot Ranch to host more than 150 champion and competitive race participants. The 150-acre ocean front and farm estate on the beautiful Coromandel Peninsula features a mile-long driveway that winds through the property, specifically designed to be the perfect hill climb. ...

Watch Rod Millen Party Like It's 1999 in This …

Millen finished 8th this year, at age 71, in the 25-year-old truck. This year's race was won by Robin Shute in a Wolf TSC car with a time of 10:09:525. Millen still has the skills, almost 30 years after setting a record Rod Millen …

Truck Thursday: Rod Millen's Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma

Truck Thursday: Rod Millen's Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma. A 2.1 liter, turbocharged, 1,000 horsepower 4-cylinder monster of a hill climb tube-chassis racecar truck. …

Video: Watch Monster Tajima and Rod Millen battle at Pikes …

Millen is in his awesome yellow Toyota Celica, Monster Tajima is in the Suzuki Escudo that you all remember from Gran Turismo. It's spellbinding stuff. But since this video is just shy of an hour we'll let you into a secret, the big stars arrive at about 47 minutes in. Fast forward to there if you want to see the two hillclimb legends on ...

Resurrection: The Pikes Peak 20B 4WD RX-7

That legend, an ex-Rod Millen, ex-RE Amemiya, 4WD and 20B-powered FC3S Mazda RX-7 that originally earned its stripes throwing stones up the curves of Pikes Peak. ... Peak for 1991 saw the engine remain essentially stock, save for a single turbo conversion with an associated tune on race fuel yielding a useful 500hp or thereabouts. Under the ...

Toyota Retro Cruiser Is a Forgotten Gem That's Coming

Rod Millen Group's 1967 FJ45 Land Cruiser Wagon is back in the spotlight almost 20 years since it came into the world, and SEMA-goers can enjoy it up close. ... He spent most of his youth racing ...

Ryan Millen

For Ryan Millen, speed is built into his DNA—his father is world-champion off-road racer Rod Millen and his older brother is legendary competitive drifter Rhys Millen. Coming from such a strong racing lineage, Ryan was exposed to the ins and outs of competitive racing from birth and at a young age set his sights on becoming one of the top ...

Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma racing car on the FOS Hill!

Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma racing car! #gwflatout... Rod Millen's Toyota Tacoma racing car on the FOS Hill! | The Pikes Peak has been the catalyst for some truly bonkers machines, and little can compete wth this.

RMR Products – Huntington Beach USA

Rhys Millen Racing 17492 Apex Circle Huntington Beach, CA 92647. Sales & Service (714) 847-2158 (714) 848-6821 (Fax) Email RMR sales@rmrproducts

Pennzoil Powers Rod Millen at the 2022 Pikes Peak …

Q&A with Race and Stunt Driver Rhys Millen; Learn How Team Penske Preps in the Off-Season; Introducing Screen to Speed Powered by Pennzoil: For Women by Women ... Rod Millen, 71, accepted to take his monstrous 1000-horsepower, 1998 Toyota Tacoma back up the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. This Tacoma boasts an amid-mounted 2.1-litre ...

Toyota Thunder: Rod Millen Motorsports/TRD Ultimate Celica …

Former race and rally driver Rod Millen had done such a great job on the production of the Retro Cruiser and on the development of the Street Rod's suspension that he was a natural choice to head ...

Family Affair: Rod and Rhys Millen return to …

For 2011, Rod Millen will join Rhys for the time attack up Pikes Peak in the Genesis Coupe developed by Rhys Millen Racing. Rod will compete in the production-based 2WD class, the same ...

The Toyota Retro Cruiser concept restored, 25 years later

The Retro Cruiser was the brain child of Rod Millen, the same racing and engineering whiz behind the record setting Pikes Peak Celica and Tacoma race truck. Millen also built a series of one-off show cars for Toyota, including the 1998 Lexus Street Rod, a '32 Ford powered by a VVT-i 1UZ V8. Back when tuners were still largely grassroots and ...

Rod Millen, Millennium Hall of Fame

Richard Dunn Despite racing in some of the hairiest conditions in motorsports, Newport Beach's Rod Millen has been living at the peak of both danger and success.