On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Paul MacDonald wrote:
> Andre
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> Other places to take the race car.
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> http://www.hillclimb.org/
You ave no idea how hillarious this is for me (and close to home).
My first "almost" step into racing was hillclimbs. Long story, but I got
to drive an HP bugeye sprite in a funkhana and the guy really worked me to
buy the car. I WANTED THAT CAR. Fate stepped in and the car was wrecked
about 5 months later at Mt. Ascutney. The driver was okay, but dissapeared
from any car events after that (SCCA / various Brit car stuff). And he had
been active in both.
At any rate, once in a blue moon I look at NEHA and usually decide that if
I'm going to do events like that, I'll drag my car all the way to PA do
run with the PA hillclimb folks.
The hillclimbs in New England are, for lack of a better term - SCARY. The
roads are nasty (for the most part) and NARROW. With big rocks and trees
right on the edge of the road.
If you can't afford to totally write off your car, I would not approach
NEHA hillclimbs at anywhere near 10/10ths. Even 7/10ths would be
hair-raising at best.
Of course you can't get good without taking risks... Sprongel did the
Mount Washington Auto Road in under 7 minutes. If you miss on that one,
there's 1000 foot drop-offs. Of course they don't run there anymore, but
that sort of risk is pretty much standard for NEHA. Look at any of the
in-car vidZ posted on the web site.
NER/SCCA stopped running hillclimbs in the region a LONG time ago because
of the safety / risk aspects.
> Paul
regards,
rml
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