Category Archives: Hillclimb

Your editor didn’t make it to Rob Roy this year, but has received this report on the event from Ian Holdsworth Steve, We didn’t see you at Rob Roy, here’s some information you might like to use in the magazine. … Continue reading →

A magnificent spring day’s hillclimbing was enjoyed by the many competitors who had entered for the 2013 Mt Tarrengower Historic Hill Climb organised and run by the Bendigo Car Club.   GSCCR members competing on the day were Dave Anderson and Jane … Continue reading →

This year’s hillclimb series has been longer than usual with Championship scores being based on each competitor’ s best eight rounds of the nine rounds contested. The last round of the series was held recently at the DECA driver training … Continue reading →

Even though this was the penultimate round of the Championship with the outcome of some classes already determined, a good field of about 80 competitors assembled at Bryant Park to contest the 1400 metre Figure Eight configuration of this fantastic … Continue reading →

Rob Roy is Australia’s oldest hillclmb track. The first event to run there was in 1937 and the track was sealed a couple of years later in 1939. After a bushfire in 1962 the venue fell into disuse until resurrected … Continue reading →

Prescott Hill Climb, near Cheltenham, is the oldest ongoing hill climb in the world with Rob Roy the oldest one in the southern hemisphere, so it seems appropriate they are now “twinned”.  The idea of a Challenge between the two … Continue reading →