Prescott Hillclimb Drivers School

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Sun 5 Jun 2005 00:58
Prescott Hillclimb Drivers School - former farmer
A week ago I had a text message from BMW offering a free day?s driving tuition at Prescott Hill, for Wednesday 3 rd June, using one?s own car.

As I live less than half an hour from Prescott it seemed too good an offer to miss.

Unfortunately Wednesday turned out to be a wet day on the hill but none the less was a very enjoyable day.

There about 12 of us on the course with a variety of cars mainly BMW, my 320d was probably the lowest powered of them all!! Following an introduction and talk about safety and the correct racing line through the corners we were allowed to give it a full blast ourselves. Whilst we were doing our runs, about eight each as we were a smallish class, they were videoing our lines through some tricky corners.

The video was shown after the lunch break. This was the source of both mirth and embarrassment !!

In the afternoon we had 6 or 8 more runs each. Also in the afternoon we all had ride with the instructor Russ Ward in a bog standard Cavalier?.. truly unbelievable. Superb car control and to keep a car on the limit of adhesion through out shows the standard of class winners for events at hill climbs.

Again the runs were all videoed but this time everyone in the class was getting closer to a correct line.

All I would say is if anyone offers you a days tuition at any of the hill climbs in the country it is well worth rearranging the work schedule for a day !!
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Sun 5 Jun 2005 01:21
Prescott Hillclimb Drivers School - WhiteTruckMan
Sounds interesting and jolly good fun too, but the only thing that puzzled me is that hillclimbing brings to mind an image of 2 people in a car climbing up a muddy track with both bouncing like good 'uns trying to keep the traction up.

Tell the truth, I also had an image of cars trying to negotiate the muddy north face of John Prescott, a formidable obstacle if ever I saw one:)

WTM
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Sun 5 Jun 2005 09:33
Prescott Hillclimb Drivers School - teabelly
John Prescott being run over repeatedly... aaah there's a pleasant thought for a Sunday morning :-)
teabelly
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Sun 5 Jun 2005 10:59
Prescott Hillclimb Drivers School - SlidingPillar
Hillclimbing is more fully described as Speed Hillclimbing. The oldest form of motorsport in the UK which originaly started on public roads, but moved to non public highway roads in the 1920's

Bouncy passengers and off road courses, the sport is Trialing. Either in purpose made machinery, or in the case of Classic Trailing, in fairly ordinary and usually older machinery.

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Mon 6 Jun 2005 13:51
Prescott Hillclimb Drivers School - tr7v8
My late father & I used to spectate at Hillclimbs all over the country. Brilliant if you're into motor racing. Purpose built single seaters with either F1 or F2 engines, all very friendly and chatty. Cars ranged from shopping tin tops right up to full blown stuff. Russ Ward is one of the top drivers as are people like Roy Lane who is past retirement age and still B quick.
James Thompson in Touring Cars is the son of James Thompson Senior who hill climbed through the 70/80s.
If you get the chance go an see it.

Jim
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