I spent Saturday at the Leadfoot Festival, Rod Millen's new hillclimb event. It was very well done with a magnificent property that has been purpose-developed for the hillclimb. The track was very challenging with some gnarly drop-away bumps, hairpin bends and lots of sections that took drivers by surprise by changing persona as the cars went faster - and in some cases this caught competitors out badly with a few very bent cars (fortunately no drivers were harmed in the making of this event).
Top competitors on Saturday were Andrew Hawkeswood (Evo), Emma Gilmour (in Possum Bourne's Coronet Peak Impreza), Clark Proctor in the mighty turbo V6 Escort, Phil Mauger in the ex-Hulme McLaren M23 (I didn't think those things had enough lock to get round the corners) and of course Rod Millen in the Toyota race truck - not much of Toyota left inside that fire-breathing monster.
But there were heaps of other magnificent cars there and bloody good peddlers, I thoroughly enjoyed it, but was unable to get there for the top 10 - shootout today. I hope someone else can fill in with the results, but in the meantime a few images.
More later
I don't know why this photo has come up twice and I can't get rid of it - but the driver was a woman, she was very good and gave it a good thrashing.