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The IndyCar great was also the winningest driver in Pikes Peak history, including this record run in 1986.

The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb has been run 98 times. Someone named Unser has won overall on 26 separate occasions. Few of those wins are more memorable than 1986, the year all-time win record holder Bobby Unser came out of retirement, seventeen years after his last overall win, with the sole goal of setting a record time in an Audi Quattro. Being Bobby Unser, he accomplished his goal.This 1986 video, shared on the official Pikes Peak International Hillclimb YouTube page, documents the event. It begins with him narrating the long history of the race itself, played over historic clips of the glory days of a hillclimb once dominated by the same sort of open wheeled racers that went to Indianapolis. Then, Unser explains, the era of rally cars at the hillclimb led to Audi's entrance with their all-wheel drive Quattros, and in 1985 Michele Mouton brought the company its first of what would be three overall wins and then-world records. This was enough to entice him back to the event in one of their upgraded Quattro SLs, and the rest is history.

The final third of the video, scored by a dramatic synth, follows Unser's actual run up the mountain. The Quattro is of course lightning quick through the then-unpaved trail, but what is even more startling are the cuts to Unser's in-car camera. He is perfectly composed up the mountain, a road he had already known for decades, and no part of either the powerful Quattro or the daunting cliffs below seems anything less than business-as-usual for the experienced hillclimber.
Unser's final time, 11:09.220, was a new record. It also marked his tenth overall win at the event, breaking a tie with his uncle Louis Unser for most all time. The record would fall again in a year, next taken by another Audi built specifically for Pikes Peak and driven by fellow legend Walter Rorhl. Unser's son, Robby, would win four times overall, including four of the next six.

Unser passed away yesterday at the age of 87. His larger-than-life career also included three Indianapolis 500 wins.