Salzburg, June 2-5, 2010
The Gaisberg near Salzburg can look back on a long history of hill
climbs. After the first edition in 1929 and a few more before the
war this hill climb became even part of the European Hillclimp
Championship in the 1960s. In 1968 the famous Porsche 909
Bergspyder in the hands of Gerhard Mitter set the record time of
3:41:54 minutes for the 8.6 km up the hill but several fatal
accidents during the years led to the final edition in 1969 when
the cars and bikes roared up for the last time.
2003 saw the first revival as an event for historic cars, organized
by the Salzburg Rallye Club. As with most of the other events of
this kind todays edition is a regularity event extended over several
days with not just the hill climbs but a timed round through the
“Salzkammergut” and a City GP in Salzburg.
This years edition started on Wednesday the 2nd of June when
169 classic cars mostly from Austria, Germany and Switzerland
met at the paddocks in Guggenthal. Among them were a Porsche
908 Spyder, two 904 GTS, a RSK and a 550 Spyder plus a
Porsche-Abarth 356 GTL, the later two from the factory museum.
Furthermore a bunch of 356 and 911 took up the challenge.
Ferrari was presented by three 275s (one GTS and two GTB), a
330 GTC and 330 GT 2+2, a 250 SWB s/n 3035GT, the ex-de
Portago 250 GT PF Berlinetta s/n 0415GT, a 212 Export s/n
0102E and a 250 S1 Cabriolet that was rebodied in period as
California Spyder s/n 0829GT.
On the pre-war side the field featured cars from a tiny MG to
Bentleys and a Bugatti T50 with almost 5 litre displacement.
Oldest car on the hill was a Alfa Romeo RL TF from 1924.
The scrutineering and drivers briefing was held at Schloß
Hellbrunn in pouring rain on Thursday before the cars were
escorted by the police to the city centre of Salzburg were they
were displayed at the Residenzplatz. As the weather improved
during the day the Residenzplatz was well visited as was the
course of the City GP. On a drying road the cars had to drive 5
rounds on a small rectangle course connecting two bridges over
the Salzach in a given time. Being already part of the regularity
trial the drivers and co-pilots had to be very concentrated on the
different parts of the course and the full lap but for the thousands
of spectators it was just pure fun. Although parts of the city are
blocked during the event one could see that it is very well
accepted by the locals and gave the visitors of Salzburg an
unexpected bonus to the usual tour through the historic town.
On Friday the field was divided in two parts with the first starting
at the hill in the morning and the second doing the tour through
the Salzkammergut. After the lunch break the two groups
changed so every group had two timed runs up the hill plus the
tour.
With a given time of 10 minutes one could clearly see who was
taking this regularity thing serious and who was just there to
enjoy a cordoned road up the hill. The first group showed very
competitive with several attempts within a tenth of a second on
every run, many cars parked on the Zistelalm ¾ up the hill to do
the last kilometres just in the given time. Others had their fun in
chasing the records of the past with a Chevron B16 doing the
fastest time of the day with a sporty 4:19:56 min. As the car was
very fast all the way up the record of 1968 becomes even more
impressive with an additional 40 sec faster!
The Saturday started in the morning with several rounds on the
Salzburgring. After 2 untimed laps to learn the track the third set
the pace for the following 3 laps.
The lunch break was at the Hotel Schloß Fuschl at the
Fuschlsee. This very elegant hotel is a great location to park all
the cars in front of and with just the hotel guests and the
participants around there were plenty of opportunities to take
pictures of the cars as long as the crews enjoyed their lunch.
After lunch they started for the last trial of the event, once more a
climb on the Gaisberg.
In the evening the price giving was at the famous Hangar 7 of the
flying bulls with Peter and Christian Krieglsteiner in a
Mercedes-Benz 280 SE winning overall.
Text & Images Peter Singhof
www.ClassicCarPhotography.de
Race # Make Model Year Pilot Co-Pilot Nation
1 Alfa Romeo 6 C 1750 GS 1929 - Gertraud List A
2 Austro Daimler ADM 3 Liter Sport 1927 - Peter Birngruber /
Alexander Schroll A/A
3 Bentley 4 1/2 Litre Le Mans 1928 - Bernd Dimbath / Petra
Dimbath D/D
4 Alfa Romeo 6C1500 S 1928 - Carsten Eckert / Svetlana Felkere
D/LE
5 Alvis FWD Supercharged 1928 - Fred Herzog / Christina Hainz
D/A
6 Bentley 4 1/2 L Open Tourer 1928 - Hasso Nauck / Ulla Nauck
D/D
7 Bentley 4 1/2 Open Tourer 1929 - Arnold Bahlmann / Emma
Bahlmann D/D
8 Invicta S Low Chassis 1932 - Ulf Jacoby Christian / Jacoby D/D
9 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 GTC 1932 - Andreas Kaufmann A
10 MG J2 1932 - Hannes Schrempf / Waltraud Schrempf A/A
11 Riley TT Sprite 1935 - Beat Odinga CH
12 Riley TT Sprite 1936 - Gian-Pietro Rossetti / Jörg Neef CH/CH
13 Alvis Speed Twenty SD 1936 - Hermann Tratnik / Nora Tratnik
A/A
15 BMW 328 1937 - Michael Ebner / Gerd Schneider A/A
16 Bentley Derby Sport Special 1937 - Stefan Lechner / Andrea
Kustermann D/D
17 BMW 328 1937 - Alexander Quester / Peter Spak A/A
18 BMW 328 1937 - Erich von Baumbach / Holger Wurft D/D
19 BMW 328 1938 - Antje Dauphin / Carola Hofmann D/D
20 Alvis Speed 25 1938 - Günter Krenn / Leopold Gierl D/D
21 BMW 328 1938 - Gerhard Pils / Christian Kornherr A/A
22 Alvis 12/70 Special 1939 - Berthold Dörrich / Ullrick Veerle D/B
23 BMW 328 1939 - Thomas Rupf / Alexandra Müller D/D
24 Jaguar XK 120 DHC 1953 - Charlotte Gräfin von Bismarck
25 Jaguar XK 120 DHC 1953 - Robert Steininger / Brigitte
Steininger A/A
26 Denzel 1500 1955 - Peter Denzel / Peter Schaup A/A
27 Jaguar XK 140 FHC 1955 - Georg Distler / Christiane Distler
D/D
28 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster 1955 - Jürgen Kluge /
Gabriele Kluge D/D
29 Porsche 356 Pre A Speedster 1954 - Dieter Castenow / Oliver
Brock D/D
30 AC Ace-Bristol 1955 - Clive Robertson / John Evans UK/UK
31 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL 1955 - Heinrich Kiener / Hans
Chwoyka A/A
32 Jaguar XK 140 DHC 1956 - Hermann Bürger / Danilo Bürger
D/D
33 Austin A35 1956 - Klaus Wildbolz CH
34 Jaguar XK 140 DHC 1956 - Erin Jantz / Chyleene O´Connor
USA/USA
35 Austin Helaey 100/4 M 1956 - Waldemar Jantz / Jack
O´Connor D/USA
36 Austin Healey 100/4 1956 - Beate Kaes / Friedrich Schessl
D/D
37 Ace-Bristol 1956 - Andreas Lustig / Thomas Frik A/A
38 Jaguar XK 140 S OTS 1956 - Peter Unterweger / Kurt
Hausmann A/A
39 Porsche 356 Speedster 1956 - Otmar Weise / Marlies Weise
A/A
40 Aston Martin DB 2/4 MK III 1957 - Carlo Bianchi / Thomas
Hodler I/CH
41 Lotus Super Seven 1965 - Josef Dygruber / Marietta Dygruber
A/A
42 Abarth Allemano Spyder 750 1957 - Corinna Fendt / Melanie
Mügschl D/A
43 Lancia Aurelia B24 S 1957 - Georg Geyer / Rudolf Pichler A/A
44 Austin Healey 3000 Mk1 1961 - Eberhard Hess / Lotte Hess
D/D
45 Ferrari 250 GT PF Serie1 Cabriolet s/n 0829GT 1957 rebodied
as California Spyder - Friederike Hrubesch-Mohringer Magdalena
Hrubesch D/D
46 Jaguar XK 140 DHC 1957 - Kurt Molterer A
47 Porsche 356 Speedster 1957 Schorsch Münch / Hannes
Scholz D/D
48 Porsche 356 A Coupe GT 1958 - Peter Kolling/ Susanne
Kolling D/D
49 Jaguar XK 150 FHC 1959 - Friedrich Brunner / Maria
Bauer-Brunner D/D
50 Porsche 356 A Coupe 1959 - Hans Graf / Nicola Graf A/A
51 BMW 507 1959 - Detlef Hübner / Angelika Buch D/D
52 Porsche 356 A Coupé 1959 - Franz List / Reinhard Pieber A/A
53 Lancia Flamina Zagato 1959 - Josef Panis A
54 Aston Martin DB 4 GT 1960 - Peter Breuer D
55 Sunbeam Harrington Le Mans 1962 - Christian Hartmann /
Martina Invernizzi CH/CH
56 Mercedes Benz 300 SL Roadster 1961- Guido Haarmann /
Monika Simon D/D
57 Alfa Romeo Barchetta 1961 - Gerhard Pegam / Andrea Pegam
A/A
58 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS 1961 - Gerald Schön / Susanna
Schön A/A
59 Jaguar E-Type Coupe 1961 - Otmar Wacek / Roswitha Stöllner
A/A
60 AC Aceca 1961 - Josef Weichenberger / Patricia
Weichenberger A/A
61 Porsche 356 Cabrio 1961 - Porsche / Porsche A/A
62 Jaguar E-Type Roadster 1962 - Hubert Palfinger / Petra
Palfinger A/A
63 Jaguar E-Type Roadster 1962 - Klaus Presterl / Dagmar
Kajtna A/A
64 BMW 2002 1969 - Uwe Dreyer / Michael Zeletzki D/D
65 Porsche 356 C Coupe 1963 - Heinz Dr.Schaden A
66 Jaguar E-Type Roadster 1963 - Michael Hassler / Natascha
Gleich A/A
67 MG C Roadster 1969 - Wolf Knocke / Regina Knocke D/D
68 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 s/n 10085 1967 - Michael Gross /
Christofer Gross A/A
69 Porsche 356 B Cabrio 1963 - Hermann Wallner A
70 Porsche 356 SC 1964 - Volker Corsmann / Ingrid Corsmann
D/A
71 Porsche 356 Coupe 1964 - Jürgen Gerlach / Karin Gerlach D/D
72 Elva Courier MKIII 1964 - Herbert Margreiter / Konnie
Aistleitner A/A
73 Porsche 356 SC Cabrio 1964 - Axel Wanivenhaus / Philipp
Wanivenhaus A/A
74 Ferrari 275 GTS 1965 - Frank Beelitz / Heidi Beelitz D/D
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