Osnabrück hill climb

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The International Osnabrücker ADAC Hill Climb is a hillclimb event , which every year on Uphöfer mountain in Borgloh , a district of Hilter in the southern district of Osnabrück takes place.

The hill climb was held for the 50th time on August 4 and 6, 2017. It is currently the only hill climb in Lower Saxony , and its hill climb route is currently the furthest north in Germany.

The route at Uphöfer Berg is 2.03 kilometers in length and has an average gradient of around 3.6 to 3.7 percent (the average gradient between the lowest point and the highest point (destination) of the route is around 3.8 percent ). The race is held under the supervision of MSC Osnabrück and is part of the German Mountain Championship for racing and touring cars, the DMSB Mountain Cup for racing and touring cars, the KW Mountain Cup, the NSU Mountain Cup , the Sports Car Mountain Cup, and the Classic Mountain -Cups, the ADAC Mountain Championship North Rhine, and the ADAC Championships Weser-Ems and Lower Saxony. Occasionally it is also rated for the Luxembourg hill climb championship.

history

The first Osnabrück hill climb was held in 1968 with 144 participants in front of around 7,000 spectators. In 1970 Heinz Brosch from Osnabrück had a fatal accident when he hit a tree. In the following years, the safety precautions around the route were improved. In 1971, Formula 3 vehicles drove for the first time on the almost two-kilometer route. At the end of the 1970s, double crash barriers were finally installed to delimit the route. In 1980 Formula 2 cars drove on the track for the first time . In the following years the field of participants became more and more attractive. Well-known racing drivers such as Roland Asch and Timo Glock started in the show program of the event, and Formula 3000 and DTM vehicles such as the Mercedes-Benz 190 were also represented.

In 2016, the Italian Christian Merli won the hill climb in his Osella FA 30 ahead of last year's winner Joel Volluz (Switzerland) and Václav Janik from the Czech Republic. Merli set a new course record with 51.232 seconds. With 51.024 seconds, Merli also won the 50th hill climb, undermining his own record from last year. This record was also broken a year later when the Frenchman Sébastien Petit won the hill climb in a Norma M20FC in 50.145 seconds .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Kuhn: Italian Merli celebrates victory and record in the hill climb. In: noz.de. August 7, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Two runs are enough for the record: Defending champion Merli triumphs in the 50th hill climb. In: noz.de. August 6, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Malte Schlaack: The fastest hill climb of all time. In: noz.de. August 5, 2018, accessed August 6, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 58.9 ″  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 16.2 ″  E