Romain Dumas Wins Pikes Peak Again, This Time in a 1,400-HP Electric Mustang

The 104th running of the Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, presented by Gran Turismo, went off under clear skies on Sunday, June 21, with green flag around 7:30 a.m. on the 12.42-mile, 156-turn course up to the 14,115-foot summit. Romain Dumas took the overall win — his sixth King of the Mountain title — driving Ford's Super Mustang Mach-E, a roughly 1,400-horsepower, three-motor all-electric race car built with STARD that shares essentially nothing with the production Mach-E beyond a name and a silhouette. His time: 8:18.202.

"This year was a very special year we had to push very hard, it was a very strong competition." — Romain Dumas

It's Dumas's second straight win with Ford, following the Ford F-150 Lightning SuperTruck's victory in 2024, and it reads as a direct answer to 2025, when high winds on the mountain let a prototype take the overall win away from the Super Mustang Mach-E despite it winning its own class. "This year was a very special year we had to push very hard, it was a very strong competition," Dumas said afterward. Robin Shute finished second overall in the Sendycar V1 at 8:29.497 — also a new rear-wheel-drive record — with defending champion and pole-sitter Simone Faggioli third in the Nova Proto NP01 at 8:32.997 after a technical issue during the ascent cost him a shot at the top step.

Several class and category records fell on the same day: Daijiro Yoshihara set a new front-wheel-drive record in an Acura Integra Type S at 10:33.174, only for rookie Jim Morris to nearly match it moments later in a Volkswagen Golf at 10:33.104. David Donner's 992-generation Porsche 911 Turbo S ran 9:53.740 for a production-car record — the first road-legal production car to break ten minutes at Pikes Peak — and Dan Novembre set an open-wheel division record of 9:01.689 in a 2013 Wolf GB08S TC Special. Emelia Hartford was the fastest woman overall in a 2026 Chevrolet Corvette at 10:11.018, calling the mountain a race that "has tested me, humbled me, and pushed me beyond anything I thought possible." Pikes Peak has run without a motorcycle class since 2019, following the fatal crash of four-time champion Carlin Dunne; this year's closest thing to a since-discontinued-class storyline was the electric-vs-everything-else theme running through the Unlimited category all day.