4:35. Yes, I run out of gears, limiter is at 186 km/h. And yes, we have a performance factor where a calculation puts us in different classes. This what you're watching is six classes, plus historic cars and single-seaters. Respect for the TH-cam channel... 💪🏽
nice ive done this on a standard maz 3 mps bk. having the engine bounce was insane. (my case was a national park run late at night just south of sydney with a car club.)
And light... I drove a street-legal Integrale in the 90ies myself... the coolest car I've ever had. If you wanted to be the cool & fast kid at this time, yoe had a VW Golf GTI witn 110 HP. If you had lots of money, then the BMW 325i with 177HP was an option. And then there was Peter's Lancia: Black, no wild optics, around 200HP, 4WD, 1200kg and 5,9sec 0-100km/h... this was fun....
@@peterm.2385 Thinking back I wonder how bad our VW Transporter would do. That thing had a 1.9L diesel with 60 hp and 127 NM when it was new, but it still got 7 people and 2 weeks of provisions up the mountains. There isn't any data on that model, but the next biggest one with 68 hp needs 28.5 for 0-100
Another detail about that Lancia, it's driven by Milan Bubnič, a great and fast driver, but also local to the track, i believe he knows the track to a single centimeter and can fully unleash all the fury this car has with ease :) I remember when we went watching races there, more than 10 years ago, when his Lancia was closer to stock, he would always put on a show for the crowd, especially when returning downhill to the pits :)
hillclimb just hit different. so many insane cars. and they all sound so brutal. like 6-700 hp. some have more. btw the black and green car at 6:50 you didnt know what was, thats a Seat Leon Cupra ( Seat is spanish car manufactorer)
I thought it was a Yugo 45. I remember when I was below driving age and small sitting in one at a car show and I could reach the pedals and see out, it's such a tiny thing.
That's why hill climb is so insane and nice to watch, there are not many restrictions like Nascar, F1 etc have to keep the field as close together as possible. In hill climb you can go as far as you want to go with engine tuning, aero, suspension and tyres, you are put in a class depending on what size engine you have, how heavily modified your car is and the weight or your car is. This means you can be a class winner in a pretty standard car with minor tweaks, but you can also build a wild prototype like the little Steyr with the rear wheels sticking out so far in this video. Many of the turbo cars in this video do have engines between 2 and 2,5 liters but do have between 500 and 900hp. I believe the Mitshubishi EVO which makes the great power slide has 860hp. It would be nice if more hill climb racers could also race across the pond, having great American drivers race at the championship races in Europe and the other way around.
There has been a fantastic live stream this weekend from "Goodwood Road & Racing" Channel. It's an Historic racing event, where actual period race cars are driven against each other, It's quite mad watching a grid of Le Mans spec Ferrari's go full bore into the 1st corner after a standing start. My personal favourites are the 1960s Touring cars. Especially when a Mini is tussling with a Big Ford Falcon or Thunderbird
There are three Goodwood events: Members Meeting (racing at the airfield); Festival of Speed (hill climb through the estate); Revival (1950s/60s based racing at the airfield). All are well worth visiting! I was at Revival on Saturday - it was great if a little hot (for the UK, up to 40.5 on the tarmac).
I am Slovenian and I was at the event. Cars are absolute beasts and venue is absolute blast. Watch those guys racing uphill is absolute magic. I just have huge respect for all drivers in hill climb racing. One particular star in hill climb is Christian Merli who races in prototype class with Osella FA30. He is an absolute hill climb superstar racer. Prototypes do reach speed of 250km/h on these narrow roads what is absolutely insane.
I think that first Škoda Fabia has RS3 5 cylinder Smooth looking car is Mk2 Seat Leon. That one has VR6 Turbo engine from with over 700hp th-cam.com/video/EEN_Mf0NeGw/w-d-xo.html 7:40 I think that's Fiat 850
@friendlyreptile9931 F1 guys are crazy, which is why they have huge respect for the rally guys. Given that they drive on tarmac, gravel, mud, forests, snow & at night, well, enough said. 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
@@ned_1963 F1 drivers are the best payed race car drivers b.c. F1 is the most popular here in europe but they are not the drivers with the most skill and i just tried to say that people overrate them. To drive a rally car, you have to be a way better driver and same goes for almost every other racing series. The F1 car is a light downforce hightech monster and you need fast reactions but compare that to racing through a forest with changing roadsurfaces. Your "Even" made it sound like F1 drivers are the kings of racing. I hope you understand what i try to say b.c. my english suxx hardcore :D
Yeah,they were crazy from the 60's till the 90's when the the turbo cars ended,then they had to be crazy skilled and insane.. Senna was a great example. (watch the piece the Top Gear show did on him with Clarkson narrating it to have an understanding of what it was(this is for other peole that that watch this,you 2 obviously know)Watch that car dance all over the road and in the corners and they had to shift gears manually with 1500 hp turbo'd cars with almost none of the tech that they have now. That is all over now. Just like the crazy eara in Group B rally cars,they were even crazier than the rally drivers now. And the crowd was even more insane.. lol@@friendlyreptile9931
if you see HillClimb Monsters channel videos, they always put several information about the cars (drivers, power, weight, engine type, transmition, etc)! Amazing video by the way! congrats! :D
In 2017 i rented a car from venice airport, and drove through Slovenia into Austria to go snowboarding, the roads were incredible to drive. This competition looks amazing. ❤
Hill Climb is pretty much the bonkers nature of Group B in terms of how far they can go in tuning the cars, but done a tad safer overall. Some of the prototypes in recent years, especially the hybrid and EV cars, are on a new level of scary fast.
Ian, the one "that took off a lot faster than you would have imagined"... WAS A YUGO 45!!!!😁😂 and the road the race takes place is not really in a mountains, it's on a Karstic ridge in southwest Slovenia on a local road with aprox 14 turns of which 6 or 7 are practically serpentine... I drive on this road when traveling to the Adriatic coast and the track is a 5km long part over really beautiful Karstic landscape. there is another large hill climb in Slovenia on Gorjanci which is on the road to my hometown.. and a few other, wild hill climb raceses on public roads.... may be that's why Slovenians drive like "they just stole the car" 😁😋
@@MravacKid 😁...can't say for the "one in question" but technically, Yugo is 46, since it was presented in late 1977, but practically is morel like 43, since its full scale production and sales started in 1980 🙂
there are severel restrictions, based on homologations, engine volume, aero, drivetrain, etc., never direct power restriction. And the price, huge range from few tens of thousands to hundreds and hundreds. and yes, all is custom with hillclimbs specially to low restrictions classes, like the big evos, Lancias and Skodas you saw there
in my very first hillclimb race, i span out of the track during the first training and damaged my car quite badly (it was underivable). didn’t even attempt to try and get it fixed because it seemed it can only be done in a workshop. then other older, experienced) drivers saw me and my team not working on it before the second training, and they came to help and fixed it so that i was able to go again. there’s fierce competition, but also great camaraderie
ive been to this race. Hill climb in my opinion is the coolest motorsport out there. so many insane builds and people who drive them, are absolute gods. i was spectating from the section where that Evo lost its control. it was preety scary. Last year i attended this race aswell and at the same section i saw this Renault crash pretty badly. dude did the entire barrel roll
I've been to a hill climb once and my reaction was the exact same as when I went to a rally stage. Lunatics, the whole lot of them. It's practically the same thing, on different surfaces.
I'm from Germany - but in the 90ies I was driving a Lancia Delta Integrale. Homologation series. And one day I've been driving the road from Gorenja Vas to Lucine... the road where they have the Lucine Hilkclimb. This was fun, even if it was not under racing conditions...
Il significato della gara in salita era andare la domenica a correre con la vettura che si usava ogni giorno, con il passare degli anni il tutto si é evoluto a questi livelli, in ogni caso le auto usate da piloti come Vatanen o Loeb rientrano nella fascia piú costosa al mondo, quindi se si vuole parlare di gare in salita credo sia meglio vedere le capicitá che avevano piloti come Mauro Nesti ad esempio
The white blue Golf with the big aero kit is the fastest Golf in the world. More than 830hp, less than 970kg (2138lbs). Karl Schagerl has been a clear dominator in recent years of the International HillClimb Cup, the Central European Championships and especially the Austrian Championship, hitting more than 5 seconds difference between him and the 2nd fastest car in his category. The driver is crazy like the car is crazy. 😄👍
Lot of the cars come from the european rally an touring championships. Cars like the Porsches and the Lambos are often ex GT3, modified for hill climb. You can see cars like the Alfa Romeo 155 DTM or small prototypes like the old Fiats with superbike engines. There is every kind of thing and it's always been like that in Europe, but the prototypes rule the show: the fastest cars are the "barchettas" like the Osella. Search for an onboard camera of Christian Merli or Simone Faggioli, they got the lap record in lot of tracks of the championship. They go crazy fast.
Here's an interesting question... which would be scarier for you to drive at speed up a hill; a Lambo/supercar that cost $350k with modifications, or say a Skoda Fabia with a hundred or more hours of work gone in to making it as fast as that Lambo?
2:40 1 answer: Open exhausts. Went to a hill climbing race near Rouen (France), ended up having trouble earing for 2 days. Turned out, they were open exhaust cars. Like always, wear protection!
I would like to add that while some of these are million dollar cars, many are million hour cars (a lot of effort). Especially the older ones often have 20-30 years hillclimbing behind them with endless rebuilds. Not to mention even modern cars are sometimes crashed several times in ten years because they run so close to the edge, so they've gotten complete rebuilds where the owner often takes modifications a step further each crash.
In hillclimb event you have cars since 250hp/800kg to +900hp/1300kg, all racing for the same purpose: time attack. In some events, they have classes, like 1300cc, 1600cc, protos, etc
Lo cierto es que cuando el Peugeot 405 participó a la subida a Pikes Peak, a muchos europeos les entró la curiosidad por conocer y comprender la cultura de la competición automovilística americana....Nascar, Indi, etc. . Algo a lo que ayudó mucho el cine de EEUU con tantas películas sobre el tema. No es dificil encontrar aficionados en Europa que aman el Mustang, el GTO, el Camaro, el Viper....sin embargo es dificil encontrar aficionados americanos que conozcan tan profundamente las formulas de competición europeas, más allá de la Fórmula Uno....la mundial de turismos, el de resistencia, la subidas como esta (que por cierto, correctamente deduces que están diferenciadas por categorias, igual que los rallyes), y muchas otras divertidísimas y que personalmente me apena que no sigan. Como persona enamorada de la competición, me entristece que muchos europeos no entiendan la Nascar o la Indi, o incluso las carreras offroad como la Baja, igualmente que muchos americanos se pierdan cosas tan divertidas como estos eventos de velocidad pura y adrenalina.
Both in hill running and in rally there are several classes! These are divided according to engine volume, weight, and operation, for example 4x4 or back wheel drive or front wheel drive. It can also be model year. There are races where there are more than 14 classes.
Hey Ian, I don't know if you've noticed, but someone named Bruce Wilson on TH-cam has a Scania in the USA, maybe you can meet up with him and test drive a Scania? Would love to see a video about it. Also great Video thumps up!
EVOs should be up to 800hp. There is a PFE (performance factor). Basing on the power output of the engine, the weight has to be between certain limits. The more power, the more the car should weight.
Try this one, TOP 15 MONSTERS || Simola HillClimb KING OF THE HILL 2023, most of them over 1000 horsepower. Have a look, would love your comments about it.
The chicane made with hay bales or tire stacks are supposed to lower the average speed on the road, some little old villages have average speed limits to comply by hill climb/rally events.
You have to watch Ari Vatanen at Pikes Peak. A driving legend, coming back from injury, at times no visibility and still he's flat out! Mental. I don't think the front wheels ever face forward!
7:46 peugeot 106, i had the same car as my first one (mine was a 1996 XN spec, it had air-con and electric windows as optionals), it had a 1.1l engine, 8 valves. it wasn't fast but peppy enough, the stock suspensions were garbage, when one day i drove my mom to work she noticed how the car handled like a boat and prompted me and my dad to fix the issue. We ordered a kit of adjustable suspensions, slammed that thing to the ground and it handled like a goddamn go kart. I had to send it to scrap because it had way too many issues, but i miss that lil' car.
Luv ya vids bro, but plz plz plz, look up Georg Plaza 🙏🙏🙏 R.I.P 💔 Georg Plaza 😢 His Judd powered BMW's were insane, V8 12,000rpm 😮 his 134 was bonkers, and unfortunately the car he passed away in. Big luv to ya bro 🙌🙌🙌🙌
It's pricey to build it, but than again it depends what you want to get out of the tune up. Some of these cars are over 700HP. It's hard to estimate the price since you have tune ups for Golf Mach 1 all the way to Lambos.
Vintage hill climb is even more diverse, cars and bikes. Some have a cut off year or date but they can be any engine size and style. Worth checking out the Goodwood festival of speed too
You can check Slovakia - many times people mix our countries, because of similar Names, Similar flags even our hillclimbs are similar th-cam.com/video/JwAh5USpDeQ/w-d-xo.html Škoda Fabia RS2000 th-cam.com/video/GqbbLY1A6x8/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/Vbo631n_vwE/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/minE5fG7_qQ/w-d-xo.html
6:48 700+hp Seat Leon R32 turbo @IWrocker, lancer on 5:00 makes 850+ hp youtube top monsters hillclimb for more info on cars. 7:40 is Fiat probably with motorbike engine inside
El coche del minuto 10:25 es un Seat Leon, fabricado en España, segúramente un FR personalizado. Usan motores del VW Golf así que te puedes imaginar lo que puede salir de ahí.
You see some old Ford Escort (Mk.I,II..) - the best American car ever build! I know you guys love big V8’s, but there’s nothing like a lightweight car with a frantic 4C N/A engine to take you on an adrenaline rampage! Try and drive one, you’ll see why we love the lightweight, small displacement combination.
I used to hillclimb but my class was pretty much for standard cars with a few modifications. It was still a hell of a lot of fun though. The unlimited classes were absolutely mental. There was one always stuck in my mind though. An ex-rallycross Escort Cosworth, as light as the regulations would allow, 650bhp and RWD. A crazy machine. The big single seaters are just mind bogglingly quick though. 650bhp and 400kg approx
06:54 That's the chassis of a Seat Leon 1P, as with all VAG group products, just a VW, in this case a Golf, with different clothing. However, considering its sound, I wouldn't be waging any bets that had any of the 2.0T engines. Most probably it's some kind of frankenstein car.
7:40 that right there is an old Fiat 500/Zastava which is kind of a legendary car in this part of the world, mostly because they were cheap and everyone could afford one. Now, what people like to do with those is put motorcycle engines in the back of them (mostly Suzuki Hayabusa or Kawasaki ZX10R engines) and basically turning them into tiny, loud and super lightweight race cars. 220hp doesn't sound like a whole lot, but when the whole car weighs like 500kg it really flies. Some guys like to make them even crazier by turbocharging them and getting over 400hp from those little bumblebees.
6.54 its a Seat Leon. spanish brand owned by VW, that generation of Seat Leon was WTCC champion several times. And Seat has also been World Rally champion.
If you think these cars are fast, take a look the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race with the Peugeot 208 t16 of Sebastien Loeb. 875 kg with 875 hp. Literally a horsepower for kilogram!
I have seen some hill climb card ( BMW ) with a JUDD V8 in them, now i do not condone BMW in any way, but god damn. After Pikes peak was paved all the way, i have 0 interest in it Ari Vatanens run is still the best Pikes Peak video. th-cam.com/video/UEuZG37gFdM/w-d-xo.html Smooth looking car = Seat
I just wanna say that I usually love watching reaction videos generally, but after watching you for few months already Ive been watching your videos alot and I do enjoy it really. Videos you are choosing are really great and great reactions!
Check out Reto Meisel and his Mercedes SLK340, it has a 640 hp Judd V8 that revs to 11500 rpm, in a car the weighs 720kg. He is the master, and will wins a hell of a lot.
Regarding hillclimb car builds, there is an amazing one hour documentary on TH-cam about how Swedish rally driver Per Eklund built an 800hp twin turbo 4wd Saab 9-3 for Pikes Peak. And I really mean built, the only thing that was Saab was the body, the chassis was tube frame, the drive train came from Subaru, and I've totally forgotten what engine block it used. Basically, everyone in his home town who knew anything about cars turned up and helped build the car, so saying that Per built the car as I did is almost completely a lie! The car went on to set a Pikes peak record that I believe stood for as long as Pikes Peak was a gravel road! Also, the guy responsible for the design of the car had cancer and underwent chemotherapy several times while overseeing the build, and IIRC survived just long enough to see the car win its first Pikes Peak. Unfortunately it's in Swedish, but I noticed that there is now at least a subtitled version if you're interested, a few years ago that wasn't the case. th-cam.com/video/Wl0pbNRWUrQ/w-d-xo.html
The reason they're so fast is, while Hillclimb does have extensive regulations for the cars, the group classification is done by the so called "performance factor". And here comes the kicker: it pretty much only determines the minimum allowed weight of the car, relative to engine type and size. The power output itself isn't limited. Example: in the highest class, the minimum allowed weight for a 2.8l V6 (NA) is some 650kg. You can imagine what kind of power the usual enthusiast tuners get from such a car. In practice, you're allowed to have 400-500 hp in the tiniest car imaginable. It's insane really.😂
@@ApocGuy That's pretty much it. Except the regulation also say "oh btw you need to have a rollcage and proper brakes too". But really not much else. 🤣
I’ve always been a rally, moto go, and Formula one. And of Isle of Man Ty. Don’t understand why its called nascar. Nothing stock on them at all. Lost complete interest. So boring compared to European racing.
6:50 it´s a Seat Leon mk2. Spanish manufacturer but in fact is base on VW group car. For example you can get an Audi A3, a VW Golf and a Seat Ibiza and if you compare them from below you´ll find out those 3 are in fact the same car with diferent body panels.
4:35. Yes, I run out of gears, limiter is at 186 km/h.
And yes, we have a performance factor where a calculation puts us in different classes. This what you're watching is six classes, plus historic cars and single-seaters.
Respect for the TH-cam channel... 💪🏽
nice ive done this on a standard maz 3 mps bk. having the engine bounce was insane. (my case was a national park run late at night just south of sydney with a car club.)
So cool to hear from You!! 🎉👍 thanks for stopping by and for the explanation
@@IWrocker please watch SashaRadola on board. he drives type R like he stole it. and he is 2 years in a row group 5 champion 😁
If you have any questions or need some info, I'm happy to help anyone who promotes or has an interest in our discipline. ✌🏽😊
@SashaRadola that's what I was thinking, do you have a 5 speed sequential transmission?
Our whole country could be a race track since its so small😂.
Greetings from Slovenia!
it aint that small :P. unless you start going off road races, then yes, we're frikking small :D .
nailed it! XD
Also because of the peoples driving skills :)
That white Lancia you saw that spits flames and has a side exhaust has over 750 HP, so these things are fast!
And light... I drove a street-legal Integrale in the 90ies myself... the coolest car I've ever had.
If you wanted to be the cool & fast kid at this time, yoe had a VW Golf GTI witn 110 HP. If you had lots of money, then the BMW 325i with 177HP was an option. And then there was Peter's Lancia: Black, no wild optics, around 200HP, 4WD, 1200kg and 5,9sec 0-100km/h... this was fun....
@@peterm.2385 Thinking back I wonder how bad our VW Transporter would do.
That thing had a 1.9L diesel with 60 hp and 127 NM when it was new, but it still got 7 people and 2 weeks of provisions up the mountains. There isn't any data on that model, but the next biggest one with 68 hp needs 28.5 for 0-100
Another detail about that Lancia, it's driven by Milan Bubnič, a great and fast driver, but also local to the track, i believe he knows the track to a single centimeter and can fully unleash all the fury this car has with ease :) I remember when we went watching races there, more than 10 years ago, when his Lancia was closer to stock, he would always put on a show for the crowd, especially when returning downhill to the pits :)
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hillclimb just hit different. so many insane cars. and they all sound so brutal. like 6-700 hp. some have more.
btw the black and green car at 6:50 you didnt know what was, thats a Seat Leon Cupra ( Seat is spanish car manufactorer)
The smooth looking car at 6:50min is a SEAT Leon.
6:38 that is a yugo driven by a lady with lancia delta drivetrain (4x4) and engine about 390bhp
I thought it was a Yugo 45. I remember when I was below driving age and small sitting in one at a car show and I could reach the pedals and see out, it's such a tiny thing.
That's why hill climb is so insane and nice to watch, there are not many restrictions like Nascar, F1 etc have to keep the field as close together as possible.
In hill climb you can go as far as you want to go with engine tuning, aero, suspension and tyres, you are put in a class depending on what size engine you have, how heavily modified your car is and the weight or your car is.
This means you can be a class winner in a pretty standard car with minor tweaks, but you can also build a wild prototype like the little Steyr with the rear wheels sticking out so far in this video.
Many of the turbo cars in this video do have engines between 2 and 2,5 liters but do have between 500 and 900hp. I believe the Mitshubishi EVO which makes the great power slide has 860hp.
It would be nice if more hill climb racers could also race across the pond, having great American drivers race at the championship races in Europe and the other way around.
Also, the places sell beer for 2 euros per pint in the race area. And afterpartys are awesome.
There has been a fantastic live stream this weekend from "Goodwood Road & Racing" Channel.
It's an Historic racing event, where actual period race cars are driven against each other, It's quite mad watching a grid of Le Mans spec Ferrari's go full bore into the 1st corner after a standing start.
My personal favourites are the 1960s Touring cars. Especially when a Mini is tussling with a Big Ford Falcon or Thunderbird
There are three Goodwood events: Members Meeting (racing at the airfield); Festival of Speed (hill climb through the estate); Revival (1950s/60s based racing at the airfield). All are well worth visiting! I was at Revival on Saturday - it was great if a little hot (for the UK, up to 40.5 on the tarmac).
@@ChrisGBusby These events are weekend long, The Revival is still going on today. I'm watching the "Parade of Bikes" right now on their live stream
I am Slovenian and I was at the event. Cars are absolute beasts and venue is absolute blast. Watch those guys racing uphill is absolute magic. I just have huge respect for all drivers in hill climb racing. One particular star in hill climb is Christian Merli who races in prototype class with Osella FA30. He is an absolute hill climb superstar racer. Prototypes do reach speed of 250km/h on these narrow roads what is absolutely insane.
I think that first Škoda Fabia has RS3 5 cylinder
Smooth looking car is Mk2 Seat Leon. That one has VR6 Turbo engine from with over 700hp th-cam.com/video/EEN_Mf0NeGw/w-d-xo.html
7:40 I think that's Fiat 850
Even F1 guys have HUGE respect for these guys, they're just on a different level! 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
"Even F1 guys" I don't know why ppl think that but F1 drivers are not the crazy guys. XD
@friendlyreptile9931 F1 guys are crazy, which is why they have huge respect for the rally guys. Given that they drive on tarmac, gravel, mud, forests, snow & at night, well, enough said. 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
@@ned_1963 F1 drivers are the best payed race car drivers b.c. F1 is the most popular here in europe but they are not the drivers with the most skill and i just tried to say that people overrate them. To drive a rally car, you have to be a way better driver and same goes for almost every other racing series. The F1 car is a light downforce hightech monster and you need fast reactions but compare that to racing through a forest with changing roadsurfaces. Your "Even" made it sound like F1 drivers are the kings of racing. I hope you understand what i try to say b.c. my english suxx hardcore :D
@friendlyreptile9931 No worries, my "even" was quoting other hugely talented drivers that "hold rally drivers in awe" 👍🏁👍
Yeah,they were crazy from the 60's till the 90's when the the turbo cars ended,then they had to be crazy skilled and insane.. Senna was a great example. (watch the piece the Top Gear show did on him with Clarkson narrating it to have an understanding of what it was(this is for other peole that that watch this,you 2 obviously know)Watch that car dance all over the road and in the corners and they had to shift gears manually with 1500 hp turbo'd cars with almost none of the tech that they have now. That is all over now. Just like the crazy eara in Group B rally cars,they were even crazier than the rally drivers now. And the crowd was even more insane.. lol@@friendlyreptile9931
if you see HillClimb Monsters channel videos, they always put several information about the cars (drivers, power, weight, engine type, transmition, etc)! Amazing video by the way! congrats! :D
Amennn !!! 🙂
In 2017 i rented a car from venice airport, and drove through Slovenia into Austria to go snowboarding, the roads were incredible to drive. This competition looks amazing. ❤
Open hillclimb is amazing, we can see a lot of different type of car, old/new etc..
Hill Climb is pretty much the bonkers nature of Group B in terms of how far they can go in tuning the cars, but done a tad safer overall.
Some of the prototypes in recent years, especially the hybrid and EV cars, are on a new level of scary fast.
Ian, the one "that took off a lot faster than you would have imagined"... WAS A YUGO 45!!!!😁😂
and the road the race takes place is not really in a mountains, it's on a Karstic ridge in southwest Slovenia on a local road with aprox 14 turns of which 6 or 7 are practically serpentine... I drive on this road when traveling to the Adriatic coast and the track is a 5km long part over really beautiful Karstic landscape.
there is another large hill climb in Slovenia on Gorjanci which is on the road to my hometown.. and a few other, wild hill climb raceses on public roads.... may be that's why Slovenians drive like "they just stole the car" 😁😋
That Yugo probably hasn't been a 45 in 30 years. :)
@@MravacKid 😁...can't say for the "one in question" but technically, Yugo is 46, since it was presented in late 1977, but practically is morel like 43, since its full scale production and sales started in 1980 🙂
Yugo was the best car in the world. You needed a hammer and a screwdriver to repair it :D
@@mardziha And there's a movie that made the Yugo famous for being built for economy, not speed!
Isn't that 4x4 with Integrale engine in it?
there are severel restrictions, based on homologations, engine volume, aero, drivetrain, etc., never direct power restriction. And the price, huge range from few tens of thousands to hundreds and hundreds. and yes, all is custom with hillclimbs specially to low restrictions classes, like the big evos, Lancias and Skodas you saw there
The level of commitment in hillclimb, both from the engineers and drivers, is insane!
in my very first hillclimb race, i span out of the track during the first training and damaged my car quite badly (it was underivable). didn’t even attempt to try and get it fixed because it seemed it can only be done in a workshop. then other older, experienced) drivers saw me and my team not working on it before the second training, and they came to help and fixed it so that i was able to go again. there’s fierce competition, but also great camaraderie
@@tolstoyed 😎 true that! Competitive on the track, but friendly the rest of the day.
@@marinoporopat i just noticed your name - are you by chance croatian? (my accident occurred on učka, i think the start was in matulji)
@@tolstoyed yes I am! The guy with #CliothePig 🙌🏻
@@marinoporopat haha awesome!
ive been to this race. Hill climb in my opinion is the coolest motorsport out there. so many insane builds and people who drive them, are absolute gods. i was spectating from the section where that Evo lost its control. it was preety scary. Last year i attended this race aswell and at the same section i saw this Renault crash pretty badly. dude did the entire barrel roll
@7:44 Fiat 500 "hayabusa". And @ 7:47, there is a "small" peugeot 106 (or citroen saxo, they are identical) too ! Fun indeed !
7:44 It's a Fiat 850
watch some german hillclimbs .. personally i really love the sound of the opel kadett c coupes. just sounds soo brutal.
I've been to a hill climb once and my reaction was the exact same as when I went to a rally stage.
Lunatics, the whole lot of them.
It's practically the same thing, on different surfaces.
Slovenija :) Nice to see you reacting to race from home country
I'm from Germany - but in the 90ies I was driving a Lancia Delta Integrale. Homologation series. And one day I've been driving the road from Gorenja Vas to Lucine... the road where they have the Lucine Hilkclimb.
This was fun, even if it was not under racing conditions...
7:36 when you said "What the hell is this?!" It looks like a Fiat 850 with some monster engine grafted on the back!
Motorcycle engine.
@@bjrgjohannessen5184 Sounds like at least a 6 cylinder.
@@wordreetI would say motorcycle engine too... often Hayabusa with turbo bolted on... 6cyl would be too heavy in the back of a small car like that
@@Faceoff1984 Could be, it was deffo revving high!!!!!!!!!!
Greetings from Slovenija :) Nice videos, keep them coming :D
You really need to watch Ari Vatanen hillclimb from pikes peak! That run is pure Art!
Watch Sebastien Loeb, Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peek POV, that is insane
Il significato della gara in salita era andare la domenica a correre con la vettura che si usava ogni giorno, con il passare degli anni il tutto si é evoluto a questi livelli, in ogni caso le auto usate da piloti come Vatanen o Loeb rientrano nella fascia piú costosa al mondo, quindi se si vuole parlare di gare in salita credo sia meglio vedere le capicitá che avevano piloti come Mauro Nesti ad esempio
The white blue Golf with the big aero kit is the fastest Golf in the world. More than 830hp, less than 970kg (2138lbs).
Karl Schagerl has been a clear dominator in recent years of the International HillClimb Cup, the Central European Championships and especially the Austrian Championship, hitting more than 5 seconds difference between him and the 2nd fastest car in his category. The driver is crazy like the car is crazy. 😄👍
Yes, and the car started out as a normal street car.
@@michiel5160 yeah, from year 2010 or 2011 is the time first I saw the car. A normal looking Golf turned into a space ship 😃👍
Lot of the cars come from the european rally an touring championships. Cars like the Porsches and the Lambos are often ex GT3, modified for hill climb. You can see cars like the Alfa Romeo 155 DTM or small prototypes like the old Fiats with superbike engines. There is every kind of thing and it's always been like that in Europe, but the prototypes rule the show: the fastest cars are the "barchettas" like the Osella. Search for an onboard camera of Christian Merli or Simone Faggioli, they got the lap record in lot of tracks of the championship. They go crazy fast.
6:47 it's an Seat
Here's an interesting question... which would be scarier for you to drive at speed up a hill; a Lambo/supercar that cost $350k with modifications, or say a Skoda Fabia with a hundred or more hours of work gone in to making it as fast as that Lambo?
The day day they go all electric motorsport is dead….i coulnt watch it…hope this will never be The cause..wouldnt be much fun without The noice
2:40 1 answer: Open exhausts.
Went to a hill climbing race near Rouen (France), ended up having trouble earing for 2 days.
Turned out, they were open exhaust cars. Like always, wear protection!
smoking car is seat leon
I would like to add that while some of these are million dollar cars, many are million hour cars (a lot of effort). Especially the older ones often have 20-30 years hillclimbing behind them with endless rebuilds. Not to mention even modern cars are sometimes crashed several times in ten years because they run so close to the edge, so they've gotten complete rebuilds where the owner often takes modifications a step further each crash.
@iwrocker, the smooth looking one at 6:51 is Seat Leon MK2
The car @ 7:39 looks like a Fiat 850 heavily modified.
In hillclimb event you have cars since 250hp/800kg to +900hp/1300kg, all racing for the same purpose: time attack.
In some events, they have classes, like 1300cc, 1600cc, protos, etc
you have to watch lebanon hill climb...am big fan of it from morocco
6:51 looks like Seat Leon. I may be wrong...
6:48 that is the Seat Leon, very cool car! Also came with a fairly big engine back in the days
Slovenia is most beutiful European country
Croatia is :)
As an Italian, I have to agree.
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Lo cierto es que cuando el Peugeot 405 participó a la subida a Pikes Peak, a muchos europeos les entró la curiosidad por conocer y comprender la cultura de la competición automovilística americana....Nascar, Indi, etc. . Algo a lo que ayudó mucho el cine de EEUU con tantas películas sobre el tema. No es dificil encontrar aficionados en Europa que aman el Mustang, el GTO, el Camaro, el Viper....sin embargo es dificil encontrar aficionados americanos que conozcan tan profundamente las formulas de competición europeas, más allá de la Fórmula Uno....la mundial de turismos, el de resistencia, la subidas como esta (que por cierto, correctamente deduces que están diferenciadas por categorias, igual que los rallyes), y muchas otras divertidísimas y que personalmente me apena que no sigan.
Como persona enamorada de la competición, me entristece que muchos europeos no entiendan la Nascar o la Indi, o incluso las carreras offroad como la Baja, igualmente que muchos americanos se pierdan cosas tan divertidas como estos eventos de velocidad pura y adrenalina.
Both in hill running and in rally there are several classes! These are divided according to engine volume, weight, and operation, for example 4x4 or back wheel drive or front wheel drive. It can also be model year. There are races where there are more than 14 classes.
Bistrc metropola! Ilirska Bistrica is the best town in whole Slovenia!
Hey Ian, I don't know if you've noticed, but someone named Bruce Wilson on TH-cam has a Scania in the USA, maybe you can meet up with him and test drive a Scania? Would love to see a video about it. Also great Video thumps up!
i must say the amount of horsepowers you see in this video are insanely high and its ranging between 300hp and hiughly nearly 900hp so yeah its insane
If you liked this, you should definitely check out the Hrušica DriftClimb 2023. It's hill climb... but with drifting! I bet you'd love it!
EVOs should be up to 800hp. There is a PFE (performance factor). Basing on the power output of the engine, the weight has to be between certain limits. The more power, the more the car should weight.
Try this one, TOP 15 MONSTERS || Simola HillClimb KING OF THE HILL 2023, most of them over 1000 horsepower. Have a look, would love your comments about it.
You need to check out Top 15 hillclimb monsters. Shows the build spec and horsepower for each vehicle. It’s awesome.
06:51 Seat Leon ( V.A.G. = Volkswagen Auto Group = that is Spain made = S.E.A.T. Sociadad Espaniol Auto de Turissimo )
The chicane made with hay bales or tire stacks are supposed to lower the average speed on the road, some little old villages have average speed limits to comply by hill climb/rally events.
You have to watch Ari Vatanen at Pikes Peak. A driving legend, coming back from injury, at times no visibility and still he's flat out! Mental. I don't think the front wheels ever face forward!
These asphalt hill climb races are awesome, but do the same thing on a dirt road. Finnish rallisprint races for example... pure madness.
7:46 peugeot 106, i had the same car as my first one (mine was a 1996 XN spec, it had air-con and electric windows as optionals), it had a 1.1l engine, 8 valves. it wasn't fast but peppy enough, the stock suspensions were garbage, when one day i drove my mom to work she noticed how the car handled like a boat and prompted me and my dad to fix the issue. We ordered a kit of adjustable suspensions, slammed that thing to the ground and it handled like a goddamn go kart. I had to send it to scrap because it had way too many issues, but i miss that lil' car.
in Newcastle NSW Australia there was The Mattara Hill Climb now a thing of the past mattara by the way was a festival held each year in october
Luv ya vids bro, but plz plz plz, look up Georg Plaza 🙏🙏🙏 R.I.P 💔 Georg Plaza 😢
His Judd powered BMW's were insane, V8 12,000rpm 😮 his 134 was bonkers, and unfortunately the car he passed away in. Big luv to ya bro 🙌🙌🙌🙌
react to spanish emergency cars, please!!!!!
Really thanks
I want to put a twin charged Audi 2.0 DTM engine into a 600kg lightweight. Could be fun. 1000 hp per ton.
3:59
Supercar: "Look at me, I am a Rally car too!!!
Tire Chicane: "I'm gonna end this cars whole wannabe Rally career"
I really respect this guy! Deserves a minimum of 1 million subsribers
Cars from open category in poland are usually around 800-900hp+, wouldn't be suprised if some of cars have above 1000hp.
Hillclimb racing, the only racing series where you can find people full send a modified family hatchback.
It's pricey to build it, but than again it depends what you want to get out of the tune up. Some of these cars are over 700HP. It's hard to estimate the price since you have tune ups for Golf Mach 1 all the way to Lambos.
Vintage hill climb is even more diverse, cars and bikes. Some have a cut off year or date but they can be any engine size and style. Worth checking out the Goodwood festival of speed too
How did they get a 5cylinder in a Fabia?!
That car at 6:52 is an older SEAT model. Looks like a Leon. Or what's left of it... 😂
Obejrzyj sobie WRC rajd polski wściekle kit cary bez smyczy.. masakra.
It's a Seat 06:50
The smooth looking car was a Seat Ibiza I believe.
You can check Slovakia - many times people mix our countries, because of similar Names, Similar flags even our hillclimbs are similar
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Thank you :D We glad you like it
Best of Arctic Rally Finland 2021 | Maximum Attack, On The Limit, Action ....you should wach this
7:41
This is a Fiat 850 from 70is, with a motorcycle engine inside, probably from Hayabusa ….
Pure madness mate .
6:48 700+hp Seat Leon R32 turbo
@IWrocker, lancer on 5:00 makes 850+ hp
youtube top monsters hillclimb for more info on cars.
7:40 is Fiat probably with motorbike engine inside
Smooth looking car is. SEAT LEON CUPRA mk2 model. I drive an 1.6 liter version
El coche del minuto 10:25 es un Seat Leon, fabricado en España, segúramente un FR personalizado. Usan motores del VW Golf así que te puedes imaginar lo que puede salir de ahí.
You see some old Ford Escort (Mk.I,II..) - the best American car ever build! I know you guys love big V8’s, but there’s nothing like a lightweight car with a frantic 4C N/A engine to take you on an adrenaline rampage!
Try and drive one, you’ll see why we love the lightweight, small displacement combination.
6:53 that car is SEAT and the model is Leon MK2, Spanish brand currently under the name CUPRA
I used to hillclimb but my class was pretty much for standard cars with a few modifications. It was still a hell of a lot of fun though. The unlimited classes were absolutely mental. There was one always stuck in my mind though. An ex-rallycross Escort Cosworth, as light as the regulations would allow, 650bhp and RWD. A crazy machine.
The big single seaters are just mind bogglingly quick though. 650bhp and 400kg approx
06:54 That's the chassis of a Seat Leon 1P, as with all VAG group products, just a VW, in this case a Golf, with different clothing. However, considering its sound, I wouldn't be waging any bets that had any of the 2.0T engines. Most probably it's some kind of frankenstein car.
7:40 that right there is an old Fiat 500/Zastava which is kind of a legendary car in this part of the world, mostly because they were cheap and everyone could afford one.
Now, what people like to do with those is put motorcycle engines in the back of them (mostly Suzuki Hayabusa or Kawasaki ZX10R engines) and basically turning them into tiny, loud and super lightweight race cars.
220hp doesn't sound like a whole lot, but when the whole car weighs like 500kg it really flies.
Some guys like to make them even crazier by turbocharging them and getting over 400hp from those little bumblebees.
6.54 its a Seat Leon. spanish brand owned by VW, that generation of Seat Leon was WTCC champion several times. And Seat has also been World Rally champion.
If you think these cars are fast, take a look the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race with the Peugeot 208 t16 of Sebastien Loeb. 875 kg with 875 hp. Literally a horsepower for kilogram!
Did You recognize car after BMW comment on 6:35? A little one with number 69? YUGO, yes that YUGO... ;-)
Frst car was Skoda with audi 5 cylinder 2.8l engine with turbo 600+ hp
I have seen some hill climb card ( BMW ) with a JUDD V8 in them, now i do not condone BMW in any way, but god damn.
After Pikes peak was paved all the way, i have 0 interest in it
Ari Vatanens run is still the best Pikes Peak video. th-cam.com/video/UEuZG37gFdM/w-d-xo.html
Smooth looking car = Seat
6:50 thats a Seat León 2010/2012, spanish car, also my grandma have one!! XDD but obviously this one is a super modified version
I just wanna say that I usually love watching reaction videos generally, but after watching you for few months already Ive been watching your videos alot and I do enjoy it really.
Videos you are choosing are really great and great reactions!
You should watch Dario Konopek AUDI S2 1550hp, drag race on 402m. He is the only one who has won against Rimac Nevera.
Check out Reto Meisel and his Mercedes SLK340, it has a 640 hp Judd V8 that revs to 11500 rpm, in a car the weighs 720kg. He is the master, and will wins a hell of a lot.
Plz do a reaction video on FIA WRC EKO Rally Acropolis 2023. You are awesome man.
Regarding hillclimb car builds, there is an amazing one hour documentary on TH-cam about how Swedish rally driver Per Eklund built an 800hp twin turbo 4wd Saab 9-3 for Pikes Peak. And I really mean built, the only thing that was Saab was the body, the chassis was tube frame, the drive train came from Subaru, and I've totally forgotten what engine block it used. Basically, everyone in his home town who knew anything about cars turned up and helped build the car, so saying that Per built the car as I did is almost completely a lie! The car went on to set a Pikes peak record that I believe stood for as long as Pikes Peak was a gravel road!
Also, the guy responsible for the design of the car had cancer and underwent chemotherapy several times while overseeing the build, and IIRC survived just long enough to see the car win its first Pikes Peak.
Unfortunately it's in Swedish, but I noticed that there is now at least a subtitled version if you're interested, a few years ago that wasn't the case. th-cam.com/video/Wl0pbNRWUrQ/w-d-xo.html
The fastest hillclimbrace in Austria is in St. Agatha. Highest Speed 277km/h
The reason they're so fast is, while Hillclimb does have extensive regulations for the cars, the group classification is done by the so called "performance factor". And here comes the kicker: it pretty much only determines the minimum allowed weight of the car, relative to engine type and size. The power output itself isn't limited. Example: in the highest class, the minimum allowed weight for a 2.8l V6 (NA) is some 650kg. You can imagine what kind of power the usual enthusiast tuners get from such a car.
In practice, you're allowed to have 400-500 hp in the tiniest car imaginable. It's insane really.😂
deathtrap kart with V6 and 500 horsies :p
@@ApocGuy That's pretty much it. Except the regulation also say "oh btw you need to have a rollcage and proper brakes too". But really not much else. 🤣
Great video. Watch Hill climb race St Ursanne.
It's very fast enjoy
I’ve always been a rally, moto go, and Formula one. And of Isle of Man Ty. Don’t understand why its called nascar. Nothing stock on them at all. Lost complete interest. So boring compared to European racing.
6:50 it´s a Seat Leon mk2. Spanish manufacturer but in fact is base on VW group car. For example you can get an Audi A3, a VW Golf and a Seat Ibiza and if you compare them from below you´ll find out those 3 are in fact the same car with diferent body panels.
Thats in my country. We also have a race called GHD Godjanci, like 30mins from my house.
5:00 that evo has around 860 hp
An you must have ton of money to modify Evo like this one....only sequential gearbox costs min 12000€