Never been up there before, or any other hill climb for that matter. I’d been meaning to get booked on one of the school days this year where they show you the ropes and teach you the hill, but I never got round to that, so my first time up a hill was to be in front of a huge crowd, no pressure then.
I’ve been to shelsley as a spectator many times and have watched the crazy f1 style single seaters doing 22 second runs up there, but having driven it myself now I have a whole new appreciation for them. It’s a mental place to drive a car up, so narrow with absolutely no run off at all, just armco and grass banks to crash into.
I gave it as much as I dared on my first run but didn’t find out what the time was as there were issues in the morning that meant we didn’t get any times until the third and final run, which I did with a random woman that came and asked if she could be a passenger, I said she was brave getting in a strangers car! She tried to film the run from inside but after I launched from the line she dropped her phone to grab the sides of her seat
Here’s my second run which I reckon is around a 33 second effort, I’m braking so early for bottom S I’m leaving a couple of seconds on the table there at least. My 3rd run with passenger was a 33.37, I think if I’d had a 4th run I’d have got in the 31’s which would have put me 2nd quickest car of the day. As it was I was 4th quickest, not too shabby for my first ever hill climb.
