Category: Spain

The Balearic Hillclimb Championship opened this Sunday with the Pujada Aigües Blanques. Pedro Mayols chances for victory seemed to disappear after mechanical problems struck his Silver Car S2 in practise. The team however managed to repair his car in time for the races and Mayol repaid them by winning easily. Marcelo Torres in the Semog …

This Saturday Luis Monzon scored his third victory at the Subida a Tejeda. It was his third win in this still very short hillclimb season and it was also his third win at Tejeda after 1990 and 1993. Monzon set his fastest time in the first race of the day after a spin in the …

The next hillclimb on the Canary Islands is the Subida a Tejeda. This 5 kilometre long hillclimb on Gran Canaria is one of the slowest and most technical events on the island. It is sometimes considered as more of a rallysprint than a hillclimb. That is also the reason why Luis Monzon starts in the …

The Balearic Islands Hillclimb Championship will start this Sunday with the Pujada a Aigües Blanques. Pedro Mayol won the event in 2016 and the champion is again the favourite this year. He will face some interesting opposition on Ibiza. Apart from Mayol himself there are 3 more CM prototypes entered. Jaime Carbonell will bring something …

The Subida a Algar was the second round of the Andalucia Hillclimb Championship. It is a short hillclimb, scheduled between the two major races in Estepona and Ubrique. As a result some drivers decided to skip this event. Still almost 40 drivers were present this weekend. Jonathan Alvarez absolutely dominated the proceedings in Algar. The …

The Basque Hillclimb Championship started this weekend with the Subida a Opakua. It rained very hard all day and the race was actually stopped after the first timed race because of lightning. At that point the race track was already shortened because one of the drivers deposited a large amount of oil near the finish. …

The Andalucian Hillclimb Championship continues this weekend with the Subida a Algar. Jonathan Alvarez is one of only two sportscar drivers entered so the 2014-winner is the obvious favourite for victory. In the touringcars predictions are much harder to make. Among the field are a lot of local drivers but not many hillclimb regulars.

Andrés Vilariño was one of the few drivers who had competed at the Subida a La Plata before yesterday. His previous knowledge of the track probably helped very little in his quest for victory. In difficult weather conditions Vilariño was only third in practise. However the Norma M20 FC pilot quickly recovered with three fastest …