Salzburg, 31st of May - 2nd of June, 2018
The Gaisberg in Salzburg / Austria is the local recreation area of
the Mozart-Town and a hike up the hill to overlook the city and the
nearby Alps is one of the favourites both for locals and visitors,
Almost 90 years ago the “Gaisbergbahn”, a cog railroad up the hill
finally was replaced by a public road built in times of recession to
bring work just as at the famous Nuerburgring in the Eiffel. And
like many other passes built during this time it was immediately
used as venue for a new hill climb and therefore 1929 saw the first
storm up the hill. Hill Climbs were very popular at these days and
a lot of famous names found their way to the starting line including
Mercedes works driver Manfred von Brauschitsch who competed
in his mighty Mercedes-Benz SS who won the touring car trophy,
the race car trophy was also won by an Mercedes-Benz, the
shorter SSK in the hands of Max von Arco-Zinneberg.
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