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Originally Posted by zac510
I disagree. Although I haven't been to all of the UK or Aus hillclimbs I wouldn't agree that UK hillclimbs have higher speeds.
One thing about each competitor you are talking about, the Gould chassis or the Aus top runners, each have tons of experience on their respective tracks thus should be expected to win there.
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I have only seen on car video of the UK hillclimbs and they have much higher terminal speeds and corner speeds than the typical OZ hillclimb. Bathurst has a max speed of around 125 mph.
Mt Cottton has a max speed of around 100 mph and the fastest corner is 50 mph.
Most of our hills are overgrown gokart tracks. The 'powers that be' would have a coronary if you could transplant the UK hills to OZ. "Too fast, no armco, etc"
Yes, of course the top runners would be expected to win in their respective countrys, just that I believe the UK cars (not drivers) would have a hard time on typical OZ hills, just as the OZ cars would on UK hills.
BTW I have driven outright cars on most OZ hills (quite a while ago) and would have loved to have had a go at the UK hills.