Event Updates July 2024

Provisional Results and Championship Points from Round 3 of the Trydel EZI UP and GO Victorian Hill Climb Championship.

The 2024 Trydel EZIUP Victorian Hill Climb Championship continued on Sunday 30th June, where a big field of 78 entries lined up to take on the clockwise short course at Bryant Park.

Saturday afternoons practice session gave a few competitors a chance to try some wet weather running as the heavens opened and the track became extremely slippery. As it turns out, it was good practice for Sunday.

Weather conditions started off cold and wet on Sunday, with competitors completing the reconnaissance lap on a wet surface. The track slowly dried and by the 3rd run, there was enough of a dry line that many competitors set their fastest time of the day on this particular run.

Then the rain returned, causing Run 4 to be held on a wet track, with quite a few competitors opting out of setting a time.

The next 4 runs saw competitors slowly gain more confidence as a dry line started to reappear, with most competitors threatening to, if not actually setting their best times of the day by Run 8.

Mike Barker came out firing from the start of the day, setting his best time of 35.26 on Run 3 in his Hayward 06.

2nd and 3rd was a battle of the Minahan brothers, Peter and Bruce, in their shared Hayward 07, with Peter edging out Bruce on a 38.70 on his 4th Run compared to 38.82, set on Bruce’s 3rd Run.

4th was Jordan James, who took advantage of his Evolution Lancers’ AWD grip to set a 38.97 on his 3rd Run. Zachary Hanlin rounded out the top 5 in his BMW M140i on a 39.24.

Fastest tin top was Jordan James in his Mitsubishi Evolution Lancer on a 38.97, with Zachary Hanlin 2nd on a 39.24. Jacob White was 3rd fastest in his V8 powered Nissan Skyline with a 39.81 second Run.

Christine Crombie was the fastest female around the course with a time of 46.49 in a Volkswagen Scirocco, which placed her 60th outright.

The 6th and final Round of the championship will be held in Ararat at One Tree Hill on August 10th and 11th.

Provisional results and the Championship points are attached in this update.

If anyone has any photo's or video from the weekend that they'd like to share, please let us know via the vichcpanelsec@gmail.com account.

Photo - Mike Barker on his way to victory at Round 3 of the Victorian Hill Climb Championship. Photo credit - Seven70Photography

Event Updates June 2024

Month	Date	Venue	Club	Event	Entries open
June	30/6/2024	Bryant Park	GCC	VHCC R3	Yes
August	10/8/2024	One Tree Hill	ACC	VHCC R6	Yes

Entries for Round 3 of the Trydel Victorian Hill Climb Championship at Bryant Park are NOW OPEN.

Gippsland Car Club are hosting a rescheduled Round 3, utilising the Clockwise Short layout which we last used at Round 7 last year.

Last year, Greg Ackland was fastest outright with a 31.81 run, leaving him 2 seconds clear of Alan Foley in 2nd with a best time of 33.85 and Mike Barker with a best time of 33.95.

Entries close on the 25th June with the event commencing on the 30th June.

As usual for Bryant Park, spectator entry is free, with plenty of parking and superb spectator viewing points around the majority of the course.

2024 EZIUP AND GO Victorian Hill Climb Championship

	Date	Club	Venue
Round 1	21 Jan	MG Car Club	Rob Roy
Round 2	17 Feb	Gippsland Car Club	Bryant Park
Round 4	21 April	PIARC	Bryant Park
Round 5	19 May	Mini Club of Vic	Rob Roy
Round 3	30 June	Gippsland Car Club	Bryant Park
Round 6	10 & 11 August	Ararat Car Club	One Tree Hill

Round 5 Photos from Rob Roy

Reminder for those that may have missed it in the last event update, JoJo from Seven70 Photography took some amazing photos at Rob Roy. Click the link below to see them all:

Seven70 Photography

Voluntary Commentary Notes

With the rescheduled Round 3 being our second last round, if anyone else would like to submit their commentary notes for Phil Memery to assist his commentary, it would be greatly appreciated by Phil. The notes provide extra information for Phil to talk through, which helps spectators get further information about the car they’re watching on the course.

The notes have been attached to this email and are completely voluntary for each competitor, but will only take around 10 minutes to fill out. If they could be emailed back to us at vichcpanelsec@gmail.com before the event so we can print them out that would be greatly appreciated.

Onboard Footage from Competitors

If anyone has any onboard footage they’d like to share, to assist us with promotion of events and our series via Facebook, please make contact with us either through email or send a message through the Victorian Hill Climb Championship Facebook page.