VIDEO: Sebastien Loeb's run up Pikes Peak

World Rally champ Sebastien Loeb demolished the standing record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on Sunday, with a time of 8 minutes, 13.878 seconds. He broke Hyundai driver Rhys Millen's record by 1 minute, 33 seconds. This morning, the full video of his run up the 12.42-mile hill was uploaded to YouTube.

Millen, for his part, pushed his Hyundai PM580T racecar up the hill in just 9 minutes, 2.192 seconds, which would have been news, if not for Loeb in the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak.

"I felt really good in the car, and I pushed it hard from the start to the finish," Loeb said. "I made no mistakes, and I felt the race was really good. To drive a car like this and race up here (to the top) is what makes this special. It's amazing."

Check out the video above. Sorry about the quality. It was obviously shot during an “Independence Day”-style alien invasion, leading to the interference.

By Jake Lingeman