FIA Hill Climb Masters

The FIA Hill Climb Masters is an FIA-run motorsport bi-annual[1] competition, created in 2014, with the goal of reuniting the world's top hill climb drivers in a single event to showcase the discipline and to celebrate national and FIA champions of the year gone by.[2]

FIA Hill Climb Masters
Categorysingle-seater cars, open-cockpit sports prototypes, and touring cars
CountryInternational
Inaugural season2014

The Masters bring together the winners of national championships, and the winners of the FIA Hill Climb Competitions. For this event, each of the drivers has to race with the same car used during the season.

There are two classifications: one Individual Classification and a Nations Cup.

FIA Hill Climb Masters Champions edit

Year Location Class Driver Car Nations Cup
2014   Eschdorf Cat. I   Yanick Bodson Porsche 997 GT3 Cup   Italy
Cat. II   Eric Berguerand Lola B99-Cosworth
Cat. III   Nicolas Schatz Norma M20 FC V8-BMW
2016[3]   Šternberk Cat. I   Lucio Peruggini Ferrari 458 Italia GT3   Slovakia
Cat. II   Simone Faggioli Norma M20FC-Zytek
Cat. III   Scott Moran Gould GR61X-NME
2018   Gubbio Cat. I   Lucio Peruggini Ferrari 458 Italia GT3   Luxembourg
Cat. II   Christian Merli Osella FA30 Evo-Zytek
Cat. III   Roger Schnellmann Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII
Cat. IV   Will Hall Force WH-Xtec
2021[4]   Braga Cat. I   Szymon Łukaszczyk Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V   France
Cat. II   Christian Merli Osella FA30-Zytek
Cat. III   Reto Maisel Mercedes-Benz SLK 340
Cat. IV   Geoffrey Schatz NP01-2 Oreca

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Les Masters de Course de Côte de la FIA (Hill Climb Masters) ne seront pas organisés en 2015 | Sport-Auto.ch". sport-auto.ch. Archived from the original on 2015-02-20.
  2. ^ "New in 2014: The FIA Hill Climb Masters". 6 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Hill Climb Masters - Gold medals for Faggioli, Moran and Peruggini". 9 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Merli wins 2021 FIA Hill Climb Masters". FIA.com. 2021-10-10. Retrieved 2021-11-02.

External links edit

  • [1] – website about Czech and European hill climbs
  • [2] – Most complete European Hill Climb Championship race results 1957–today by ing. Roman Krejčí