QHC HILLCLIMB Results 4th & 5th June 2011.
The 2011 Queensland Hillclimb Championships were blessed with the best winter weather that Queensland has to offer.
Saturday’s practice highlight was Brett Haywood setting blistering times of mid 37 second runs, not to bad for someone who has not driven the tack before. Most people running stayed out of trouble but a few cars had off’s. One of which was the crash of Rod Moody as he went back over lovers leap the car made contact the bank this damaged the front right hand side wing, rim and lower control arm, but with help from Brett Haywood the car was repaired ready for Sunday morning.
Sunday was another perfect winter’s day with blue sky making perfect conditions for fast times.
The highlight was the shattering of the track record to a stunning 36.57 seconds of Brett Haywood in his well-built Haywood 09 Formula Libre hill–climber. This was the first time a car has ever run the Mt Cotton track in under 37 seconds. Well done Brett this time should stand for a long time.
Other records to fall on Sunday were the Formula Ford record to Terry Johns with a time of 44.41, the Group V record went to Ross Rundle with a time of 52.22, the Group S record went to Mike Allen with a time of 49.79 and the Closed sports cars up to 2000cc with a time of 51.29s.
The top 6 cars all set times under 39 seconds.
1st Brett Haywood (36.57) – Vic.
2nd Peter Gumley (37.64) – NSW.
3rd Alan McConnell (37.92) – Qld.
4th Doug Barry (38.56) – NSW.
5th Warwick Hutchinson (38.71) – Qld.
6th Rod Moody (39.66) – Vic.
In total there was only 3 Rotary Hillclimb Racing Cars entered in this year’s QHC with a 5th outright and 3rd in class going to Warwick Hutchinson in his RPV02 (38.71), 2nd in class and 31st outright went to Scott Trenoweth in his Mazda RX7 (47.36) and 4th in class and 47th outright went to Cameron Hurman in his Mazda Rx7 (49.55)
The next hillclimb event is Noosa Hillclimb on the 2nd & 3rd July .
Some of the photos on this entry were supplied by “Steve Johns” – via the MGCCQ website.
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