REPORT: Renault Simola Knysna Hill Climb 2012

[BMWFanaticscoza]

ONE of our members [ed_z] attended and participated in this fantastic annual event and gave this feedback:

"Arrived on the Thursday evening in Knysna and packed out all our stuff at the Drifters BnB which was awesome and food was great. The Drifters BnB is 2 minutes away from the actuall Hill Climb and the Simola estate so this was nice and convenient, friendly people as well.

Friday we left for the Simola Estate and conference centre to do documentation then off to the Waterfront for scrutineering and then later the afternoon a town parade which was great followed by the normal kak praat session in the parking lot afterwards.

Saturday drivers briefing at 8am and i was really nervous. The format is they start with the last driver way down in the pits number 80 and then each i gets instructed by the marshals to pull out in succession really quickly one after the other and the entire process lasts 10-15 minutes and everyone has done the first run you then follow the road through the estate back to the pits and park in your designated pits. This all happens 8-10 times through out the day. So my 1st run i did a 56 second and came down the 2nd run to 52 seconds and last couple of runs 51 seconds. It is mind boggling fast and some corners were taken at over 160km/h! Hill Climb is 1.8 kms long so you really have to peddle it up and there is not time for mistakes otherwise you are off like a bunch of guys showed us loosing a scirocco, subaru, renault rs 250 cup and some other cars as well...READ HIS FULL REPORT POST # 41"

Here ed_z is representing!



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