{"id":717365,"date":"2010-04-15T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=18831"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:18:33","slug":"hyundai-and-rhys-millen-racing-team-up-to-break-pikes-peak-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/717365","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai and Rhys Millen Racing Team Up to Break Pikes Peak Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18830\" title=\"RMR\/Hyundai Genesis PM580\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RMR-Genesis-PM580-440x268.jpg?resize=440%2C268\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rhys Millen has been drifting and racing Hyundai vehicles for several years now, and this June he hopes to set a new record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a record once held by his father, Rod. The current record for the 12.42-mile course is 10:01.41, set by  Nobuhiro &#8220;Monster&#8221; Tajima and Suzuki in 2007. Millen hopes to be the first driver to  break the 10-minute barrier.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll drive an all-new car dubbed the RMR \/ Hyundai Genesis PM580, a teaser image of which is shown above. Full info on the car will be revealed April 19, but we know from the preliminary entry list that it&#8217;s four-wheel-drive and will compete in the Unlimited class. Knowing that, and judging from the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/09q1\/rmr_red_bull_hyundai_genesis_coupe-auto_shows\">RMR Genesis<\/a> we saw, the PM580 won\u2019t bear much resemblance to the Hyundai in your driveway.<\/p>\n<p>No related posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhys Millen has been drifting and racing Hyundai vehicles for several years now, and this June he hopes to set a new record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a record once held by his father, Rod. The current record for the 12.42-mile course is 10:01.41, set by Nobuhiro &#8220;Monster&#8221; Tajima and Suzuki in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30Cp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818931,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717365\/revisions\/818931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}