Jeff Grace was getting a few practice runs in for the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb , a famous high altitude motorsports race which features a 12.42 mile course with 156 turns ending at the 14110 foot summit of Pikes, when this unmanned dirtbike nearly sent him tumbling over the edge.

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