Mountain Straight Hillclimb
March 6, 2022
Frank Kleinig in the Hudson Special, top of Mountain Straight in October 1939
Photo: J. Sheperd
Day 2 saw the cars running in the usual racing direction, starting part of the way up Mountain Straight and finishing at Sulman Park. Parts of the track get little sunlight and there were still some damp patches left over after the rain on Saturday night but the surface wasn't too wet to give anyone any problems with tyre choice. In any case, driving to the conditions is part of the game.
I know, I know - it's Forrest's Elbow, named for motorcycle rider Jack Forrest
who crashed there in a race in 1947. But I didn't make the map, I just added the
flags to show the start and finish of the hillclimb course.
You can see the Supplementary Regulations here
The course from the hump on Mountain Straight to Brock's Skyline.
[This was recorded with a new camera with wider fields of view (both vertical and horizontal) and a new mounting device that positioned the camera too low (it was a failure of the previous mount that killed the previous camera) so this is why there is too much dashboard in the frame. Experimentation is continuing.]
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| Place | Driver | Car | |
| 1 | Dean Tighe | Empire Wraith | |
| 2 | Kevin Mackrell | Datsun 260Z | |
| 3 | Peter Brown | Prosport Mulsanne | |
| 4 | Matthew Brown | Audi RS4 | |
| 5 | Robert Kolimackovski | Honda Integra | |
