Video: The quest to build the fastest Mazda RX-7 at Pikes Peak

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZSeRuNbaNnU?si=9tUWcKCNASI1fNlG

The goal? Build the fastest Mazda RX-7 for Pikes Peak ever. The time frame? Five months.

Top Gear joined rotary enthusiast Rob Dahm (he rotary-swapped a Corvette once) to share the journey of how he built an RX-7 into a Pikes Peak entrant.

We’ll find out on Sunday, June 22, if he’ll achieve his goal.

Austin Cannon
Austin Cannon Reader Services
6/17/25 4:12 p.m.

I've followed along with Rob's increasingly insane rotary adventures since UPS lost his 4 rotor in the mail (I checked his channel, this was 10 years ago!). If anyone can make it happen, he can.

Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
6/17/25 4:53 p.m.

In reply to Austin Cannon :

That's a heck of an item to lose.

Austin Cannon
Austin Cannon Reader Services
6/18/25 10:10 a.m.

In reply to Colin Wood :
Yeahhhh, it was a whole thing lol

JoeTR6
JoeTR6 SuperDork
6/18/25 10:39 a.m.

It fell off the back of the truck in New Jersey?

I may not go in person, but I plan on following the race more closely this year.  I'll keep an eye out for fast RX-7s.

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