{"id":491134,"date":"2010-01-01T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=42787"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:47:04","slug":"1955-max-day-insurance-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1955-max-day-insurance-special\/","title":{"rendered":"1955 Max Day Insurance Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>The Pikes Peak Hill Climb is the second-oldest major motor racing event in North America.\u00a0 The inaugural race was held in 1916, and the annual happening now attracts tens-of-thousands of spectators. The winding 12.4-mile course features 156 serpentine turns and starts at an altitude of 9,390 feet. The \u201crace to the clouds,\u201d as it is known, ends at the summit of Colorado\u2019s Pikes Peak at 14,110 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The only cars to race up the mountain in 1916 where open-wheel jobs, as no other classes existed at the time. Ray Lentz won the Saturday main event posting a time of 20 minutes 55.6 seconds in the \u201cRamano Demon,\u201d which was powered by a 402-cubic-inch airplane engine. Stock cars took to the mountain in 1927, but it would be another 26 years until sports cars hit the big hill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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The only cars to race up the mountain in 1916 where open-wheel jobs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":593479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17177],"tags":[17178],"class_list":["post-491134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chassis-histories","tag-chassis-histories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1955 Max Day Insurance Special<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1955 Max Day Insurance Special\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1955-max-day-insurance-special\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" 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