Pike's Peak Rivian R1T - The Full Pre-Race Story

Gardner Nichols plans to run his Rivian R1T with only minor modifications up Pike's Peak for the 2023 edition of the famous Hill Cimb Race? With a new Optima 12V battery system and some performance rubber, we learn about how Gardner and his team are prepping for the race. Could he set a production truck record, or maybe even a production EV record?
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[@iMaxPatten]

Gardner actually works for Rivian as a Senior Performance Test Engineer! This was a super cool opportunity to interview him before the race and congrats to him on the great performance with a largely stock truck!

[@lkuhn65]

Great run up the mountain today! Congrats Gardner!

[@Eric-xp1kl]

Very cool...best of luck to Gardner and his team!

[@dzsink]

Good luck for the race!

[@RyuMoto]

Very cool. I'll bet thermals will be their biggest problem in the stock config

[@tazeat]

Now do it again with a full diet and carbon fiber treatment, I bet you could get hundreds of pounds out of that