Agree. A race track up Pike's Peak, once paved, is exactly the same as the 1,000 other race track's up Mountain's like Pike's Peak. The track up Mount Kilimanjaro is impressive. So is the one up Mount Everest. Hopefully, they won't pave those tracks or they'll be as dumbed down and easy as the Pike's Peak hill climb. *sigh* I'm gonna go watch some NASCAR and pine for the gool ol' days.
In his autohagiography, 'The Confessions of Aleister Crowley' he writes that when Europeans first started trying to climb in the Himalayas they basically had to actually learn to mountain-climb for the first time; all the mountains in the Alps were well marked, almost paved footpaths up the mountains with no challenge at all. No-one knew how to climb the mountains in the Himalayas, it was entirely new. (Yes, Aleister Crowley was a pioneering mountaineer).
How about a race up an arbitrary mountain, picked at random from a hat a few days before the event, with no limitations on entrants except that they be powered by wheels in contact with the ground.