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Carselling.com.au Queensland Hillclimb Championships 4/5 June 2011

Practice on Saturday indicated great promise for fantastic competition on Sunday and none of the large crowd in attendance were disappointed. Highlights were the shattering of the outright record by Brett Hayward of Victoria when he reduced it from 37.42 (set by Peter Gumley in 2007) to 36.57, the addition of two new members to the Under 40s Club (Brett Hayward and Rod Moody, both from Victoria), class records falling like dominoes resulting in five classes with new records and a total of 6 competitors achieving sub 40s runs.

Despite a twelve month absence from Mt Cotton, Alan McConnell did sub 40s times on 5 of his 6 runs while Warwick Hutchinson achieved his first sub 39s run with a stunning 38.71.

Class records were broken by:
Ross Rundle (Group V) who broke the previous record five times before achieving his best time of 52.22 on his final run.
 
Mike Allen (Group S) who had to contend with Steve Purdy's successes in also breaking the record before finally achieving a sub 50s run to set the record at 49.79, ready for the tussle to begin again next time.
 
David Jones (Closed sports cars up to 2000cc) who reduced Jim Peall's record of 51.67 set in 2004 to 51.29.

Terry Johns (Formula Ford) who waited until his last run to set a time of 44.41 thus snatching the record from his 'co-driver' Jack Bellotti who had broken Jamie McHugh's 1991 record with a 44.70 earlier in the day.

Brett Hayward (Formula Libre 1301-2000cc) broke this class record (previously held by Alan McConnell) on each of his three runs culminating in his 36.57, the first time a sub 37s time has been seen at Mt Cotton

Click here for photos of the presentation of trophies.

Major prizewinners were:
Tasman Building Society Perpetual Trophy for Fastest Time of Day (Queensland Hillclimb Champion) -- Brett Hayward

Glyn Scott Perpetual Trophy for fastest time by a sports car -- Bill Norman

Martin Tighe Trophy for fastest time by a Formula Ford -- Terry Johns

Vince Appleby Trophy for fastest time by a sedan -- Mark Trenoweth

Paul Aitken Trophy for Best Average Time by a motor cycle powered car -- Alan McConnell

Hamilton Trophy for Best Performance by an Historic Vehicle -- Mike Allen

John English Trophy for the fastest time by a Queenslander -- Alan McConnell

Accurate Suspension Top Total -- Peter Gumley

Click here for Split Times from both Saturday and Sunday (on separate pages)

Click here for OPR

Click photo above for a slideshow of some photos from Rebecca Allen

Photos below from Steve Johns. Click each photo for a larger view.

Photos from practice on 4th June from Gary Pitt. Click each photo for a larger view.

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