The 90th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb — scheduled for Sunday, July 8 — is being postponed until later in the summer due to conditions and safety concerns related to the wildfires threatening Colorado Springs and nearby communities, the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation announced Wednesday.
“We have been informed by the U.S. Forest Service that conditions are so extreme, along with the inability to forecast the future of the fire, and with access to Pikes Peak in jeopardy that the agency can’t permit the event to go as scheduled,” Tom Osborne, chairman of the board of the PPIHC as well as president and CEO of the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation said in a statement.
Osborne said that the iconic event, which is the nation’s second-oldest motorsports race behind the Indianapolis 500, will be staged later this summer. A new date will be set within a timeframe that allows the option of rescheduling of a new Race Week for drivers, racers, support crews and the multitude of agencies that are required to support the race.
“The 90th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb will be run,” said Osborne.
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