With a rather last minute decision, last weekend I went to the North-West of Switzerland to attend the annual Hemberg hillclimb which has been taking place for 11 years now near the homonymous village. This Bergrennen (which means 'hillclimb race' in German, from 'Berg' = 'Mountain' and 'rennen' = 'race') was the first round of the 2024 Swiss Hillclimb Championship (Schweizer Bergmeisterschaft) and had almost 200 registered drivers and cars.
The course is 1,758 meters long, starting from an altitude of 755 meters and ending at 912 meters above sea level, with an average slope of 8.94%. The first half is quite slow with short straights and several tight corners but after a wide U-turn the course becomes faster and more technical with a series of curves that can be driven at higher speeds.
In addition to the free practice runs (a total of 5 for each group/driver) and 3 actual race heats, there were also several show and taxi runs with all kinds of vehicles, from sportscars to the Group-4 Audi Ur-quattro of Marco Maurer, from motorcycles to 2-stroke Go Karts plus the insane creations of Hannes Roth: a motorbike-powered bobsleigh ('Swiss Bob') and his famous 'Die fahrende Badewanne', a motorized Bathtub kart!
The best time of the 2024 edition was set by Robin Faustini in his Nova Proto NP01-2 EMAP Turbo who manage to complete the 1.7 km course in 52.32 seconds, which is also the second overall best time since the Hemberg hillclimb was held for the first time in 2012.
Audi 50 (Christian Bartlome)
Audi 50 16V (Stefan Schöpfer)
Audi A4 B5 Quattro 1.8T (Dominic von Rotz)
Audi TT 8N (Martin Epp)
Audi Ur-quattro Gr. 4 (Marco Maurer)
BMW 130i (Nicolas Viva)
BMW 320i E21 2.0 16V (Manuel Santonastaso)
BMW 2002 Ti (Benjamin Nicole)
BMW 2002 16V 'Gruppe 5' (Mario Minichberger)
BMW E30 Drift Car (Marc Fleury)
BMW E30 HRT 3.0 (Tom Huwiler)
BMW E30 RPM Racing (Steven Chiquita)
BMW E36 'GTR' (Mario Bertocchi)
BMW M3 E46 'GTR' (Kyrill Graf)
BMW M3 E46 4.0 V8 (Manuel Lenherr)
Citroën Saxo Kit (Dominic Schneider)
Dallara F393 EPR-7 (Philip Egli)
Fiat X1/9 (Jean Francois Chariatte)
Ford Escort Mk2 RS 2000 (Cornel Grossmann)
Ford Escort RS Cosworth by Gabat (Romeo Nüssli)
Ford Focus ST 170 (Bernhard Mühlemann)
Ford Focus Mk3 5-Cylinder (Patrick Schrottenbaum)
Formula Arcobaleno (Anthony Gurba)
Formula BMW FB02 (Christian Müller)
Honda Civic Type-R EP3 (Mike Schwarz)
Lancia Delta S4 (Bruno Ianniello)
Lancia Delta S4 (Marco Thöny)
LobArt LA01 Helftec-Honda Turbo (Marcel Steiner)
Lotus Exige Cup 430 (Christian Nüssli)
Mazda MX-5 NB (Daniel Baumgartner)
Mercedes-Benz SLK340 Judd V8 (Reto Meisel)
McLaren 765LT
Mini 1275 GT (Valentin Dähler)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8 (Werner Schlegel)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8 J-Spec (Roger Schnellmann)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII by HPT (Thomas Kessler)
Norma M20F Honda Turbo (Jeremy Noirat)
Norma M20FC Helftec-Honda Turbo (Michel Zemp)
Nova Proto NP01-2 EMAP Turbo (Robin Faustini)
Nova Proto NP01-2 Helftec Turbo (Thomas Amweg)
Nova Proto NP03 Supercharged (Antonino Scolaro)
Opel Ascona B 16V (Urs Banz)
Opel Astra TCR (Patrick Flammer)
Opel Astra TCR (Peter Steck)
Opel Kadett C (Andreas Burri, Harry Eberle, Kurt Tschirky, René Tschirky)
Opel Kadett C 2.5 16V (Armin Banz)
Opel Kadett C E1 1.6 (Hans Peter Eller)
Opel Kadett GT/E (Marco Geering, Lukas Maurer, Sebastien Coquoz)
Opel Speedster Turbo EGMO (Hermann Bollhalder)
Osella FA30 Zytek V8 (Simon Hugentobler)
Peugeot 106 MLP (Patrick Eggimann)
Peugeot 205 E1 (Fabien Houlmann)
Peugeot 205 GTI 2.0 E1 (Patrick Hedinger)
Peugeot 206 S2000 (Sergio Kuhn)
Porsche 930 (Roman Krüsi)
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup (Jean Paul Chiquita)
Porsche 997 GT2-R (Frédéric Neff)
Renault 5 'Williams swap' (Claudio Grispino)
Renault Clio II K20 Swap (Michael Kuratli)
Renault Clio Williams (Patrick Zentner)
Subaru Impreza GC8 (Urs Kuratli)
Subaru Impreza Type R (Vanessa Zenklusen)
Tatuus F4 Evo (Joel Burgermeister)
Tatuus Formula Master Honda (Roland Bossy)
Tatuus Formula Master Renault (Christian Balmer)
Tatuus Formula Renault 2.0 Evo (Lionel Ryter)
Toyota Yaris Helftec (Mark Husistein)
VW Golf Mk1 16V (Martin Howald)
VW Golf Mk1 HPR (Arnaud Donzé)
VW Golf GTI Mk2 (Adrian Mürner, Ludovic Monnier, Patrick Vallat)
VW Golf Mk2 Turbo (Simon Wüthrich)
VW Golf Mk3 20V (Dani Fauler)
VW Golf Rallye Turbo (Danny Krieg)
VW Lupo GTI Cup (Martin Bächler)
VW Polo Mk1 16V (Andreas Helm, Jannis Jeremias)
VW Polo Mk2 16V (Beat Zimmermann)
VW Scirocco Mk1 (Christophe Oulevay)
VW Scirocco Mk1 Minichberger (Stephan Burri)
0:00 Preview
1:09 Cars heading to the start line
3:48 Hillclimb Action
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Camcorder: Canon Legria GX10 + Zoom H5, Sony FDR AX700 + Audio-Technica Microphone
Event: Bergrennen Hemberg 2024
Where: Hemberg, Switzerland
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