Craigantlet Hillclimb, a speed event organised by the
Ulster Automobile Club
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, was first held in 1913. It is the only such venue in
Northern Ireland
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to host a round (latterly two rounds) of the
British Hill Climb Championship
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, which started in 1947.
The current course is 1,460 yards (1335 metres) in length, and unlike hillclimbs in the rest of the UK is laid out on closed public roads. Sections of the course are named for past winners, in order of ascent:
Howe
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* Howe (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (1788–1845), Irish peer and colonial governor
Titles
* Earl Howe, two titles, an ext ...
, Hall, Hadley,
Mays Cross,
Allard,
Wharton Straight, Pringle.
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Tragedy struck at Craigantlet in 1995 when Mark Colton
Mark Colton (17 March 1961 – 5 August 1995) was a British racing driver and software author.
He was killed in practice for Craigantlet Hillclimb speed event in Northern Ireland after his Pilbeam's front wing failed and he hit a telegraph pole.
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was killed in practice for the event. The meeting was abandoned.
The hill record currently stands at 39.63 seconds, set by Scott Moran
Scott Moran (born 1976
) is a British hillclimb driver, based in Ludlow, Shropshire. Scott Moran has won the British Hill Climb Championship six times (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016) driving the Gould GR61X he shares with his father, ...
on 2 August 2008, driving a Gould
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* Gould, West Virginia, a ...
GR61.[ ]
Craigantlet Hillclimb past winners
Key: R = Course Record; FTD = Fastest Time of the Day.
Footnotes
External links
Ulster Automobile Club
* Top 12 Run Of
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