The Course de Côte de Saint Savin was one of the most hotly contested hillclimbs in France this year. Race 1 saw Olivier Augusto lead Marcel Sapin by .012 seconds and Maxime Cotleur by .310. Neither Augusto or Cotleur could improve their times in the second race. Sapin could, but only by .035 seconds which …
Results Course de Côte d’Urcy 2017
After two years in the second division the Course de Côte d’Urcy returned to the Coupe de France this year. David Guillaumard was present with his famed Dallara F308. It was probably his last outing with this car as Guillaumard has found a buyer. Car and driver parted on a high as Guillaumard won the …
Results Course de Côte de Pondron 2017
There were again a number of hillclimbs in France this weekend. In the north Fabien Ponchant added the Course de Côte de Pondron to his palmares. He was almost one second faster than runner-up Alain Le Sausse. Le Sausse in turn was almost one second quicker than third placed William Pommery. Arnaud Vermersch was the …
Results Subida a Santo Domingo 2017
Another hillclimb did take place on the Canary Islands this weekend. On Sunday the Subida a Santo Domingo on La Palma was contested trouble-free. Anibal de Luis was the only sportscar entered and he took a simple victory. Best of the touringcars was Miguel Suarez. The Porsche 997 GT3 pilot was almost 10 seconds quicker …
Subida a La Cumbre 2017
The Canary Islands Hillclimb Championship continued this weekend on El Hierro. The Subida a La Cumbre is the only hillclimb on this small island. 26 drivers entered the speed hillclimb, most of them travelled from other islands. The technical verifications were already completed on Friday. Saturday morning everything looked set for an exciting day of …
Results Course de Côte de Richelle / Mémorial Yves Feilner 2017
The Belgian Regional Hillclimb Championship visited the Mémorial Yves Feilner / Course de Côte de Richelle this weekend. The titles are already decided and the new champions Christophe Le Nouvel (1-2-3) and Julien Vandeput (4) were absent in Richelle. Division 4 has been very small all year long. Richelle was the exception with 9 Kart-Cross …
Results Prescott Hillclimb 2017
Trevor Willis secured the 2017 British Hillclimb Championship Title at Prescott Hillclimb this weekend. His closest rival Wallace Menzies retired in the first run-off, which meant that fifth place was enough for Willis to secure the title in the second run-off. In the rainsoaked run-offs some unfamiliar names came to the top. Richard Spedding dominated …
Results Kulla Hillclimb 2017
An historic motorsport moment happened in Kosovo this weekend. The Kulla Hillclimb was the first international CEZ race in this young country. The event was completed more or less trouble-free which will be a basis to continue to grow the sport. Winner was Grzegorz Duda from Poland who dominated the event in his Hyundai i20 …
Results Trofeul Teliu 2017
The Romanian Hillclimb Championship visited the Trofeul Teliu this weekend. This raceweekend was highly anticipated as the Italian Radical Team brought two cars to Teliu. For their drivers they chose Horatiu Ionescu Cristea and Simone Tempestini. Double rally champion Tempestini immediately showed off his talent as he broke the track record already in practise. He …
Results GHD Ilirska Bistrica 2017
Simone Faggioli is the new European Hillclimb Champion. Today the Italian won the GHD Ilirska Bistrica in Slovenia and saw his main rival Christian Merli retire. With this victory Faggioli collected the maximum amount of championship points. For Merli it was only his first retirement of the season. However because of the half points in …