1st International RC car Hill-Climbing Event Faistenau/Austria

Last weekend saw 1st Hill-Climbing Event for RC-cars in Faistenau (www.faistenau.at) at Hacksteiner-Hills for RC cars in the near of Salzburg/Austria!

The event was organized by Christoph Stopper and Willi Rinnerthaler who found a perfect location and have made also very simple rules! Every driver had 3 minutes for their heats (2x qualifying and 2x final – the best result in final counts) to get as high as possible at equal height or at “Full Hill” the time counts! As long the car drives the hill up (wil be checked by Willi at the hill and shown by a flag signal) the time is running – if a car stops the time will be on hold and height will be measured – after measuring the time will run again and the car has to go back to the starting line downhill where Christoph is giving the start signal also by flag!

There have be 2 competitions in this event

Hill-Climbing (by height and time)
Action + style (reviewed by three judges without RC-Car Experience on a nice leather couch)

Exact at 10:00 o’ clock in the morning the drivers meeting was held and rules where explained and every driver got a “Goodie-Bag” (see picture – absolute great). Short practice and qualification rounds (which was only used for the starting order in the final)! No “Full Hill” was made in qualifying – some drivers missed the 65 meter only by few centimeters at the very difficult last few meters of the hill!

Final rounds where started after the lunch break and the now complete dry track allowed every driver to get better results – than in qualifying! We had following Top-14 results in the Hillclimbing event after the 2 final heats:

Pichler-Connection/Austria/Durango DEX10 Special – 34.40 meter

Lorenz Leitgeb/Austria/Traxxas Slash 4×4 – 35.80 meter

Bernhard Gugganig/Austria/Reely Hummer 1:5 – 42.40 meter

Martin Stöllinger/Austria/HongNor Ultra LX (bought his car during the event!) – 43.50 meter

Rene Ruffner/Switzerland/Hobbytech STR8 EP Brushless – 45,90 meter

Elli Weidendach/Germany/HongNor X2 CRT 54.80 meter

Maximilan Hoeflmaier/Austria/HongNor Ultra RR 55.00 meter

Roland Winklhofer/Austria/FG 1:5 Beetle – 55.00 meter

Kilian Ferstl/Germany/TT-Truggy Brushless – 56.00 meter

Wolfi Janesch/Austria/Hpi Baja 1:5 – 58.00 meter

Ede Mattis/Germany/HongNor X2 CRT – Full Hill/16.8 sec

Rene Rinnerthaler/Austria/HongNor X2 CRT – Full Hill/15.2 sec

Michael Klausener sen/Austria Mugen MBX-6T – Full Hill/14.8 sec

Michael Selner/Austria Mugen MBX-6T – Full Hill/13.7 sec

The second competition in this event was the “King of Action” – this was decided by the 3 Judges Magdalena, Max and Hubert – and here got the 7 years old Lorenz Leitgeb with his TRAXXAS Slash 4×4 the Top-Spot. In second final leg Lorenz had a empty battery – so I (Michael Selner) had the idea during his run to take out a charged 3S Lipo from my EMAXX BL and borrow him for this final run – I changed the battery in Formula 1 style within few seconds – but the car of Lorenz had now so much power and it was not running normal anymore – wheelie – rolling up and down – so it was easy to find the “Action-King” for the judges!

An absolute perfect event – where really all drivers with cars from 1/16 to 1/5 – electric or gas, organizer, judges, … had big fun! The winner trophy has a weight of 14kg (28 lbs).

It looks like that in 2011 will be the 2nd Hill-Climbing event at Hacksteiner-Hills in Faistenau! I can only recommend to addend at this event – if somebody would like to come from far away it should be combined with few days of holiday in the great lake area of Salzburg/Austria! If I got more information’s for the 2nd event I will send information’s about!

More information’s (including more pictures and also some video clips) see also: www.drt-news.com/hillclimbing/

For me the coolest trailer video is following: