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Mont Ventoux Hill Climb

Mont Ventoux Hill Climb

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Mont Ventoux Hill Climb is a car and motorcycle hillclimbing race course near Avignon in France. The course, up Mont Ventoux, starts from the village of Bédoin and rises 5,289 feet (1,612 m) for 13.4 miles (21.6 km),[1] to the observatory at the summit, for an average gradient of 7.4%.

In 1970: "Andre Willem of Belgium was killed June 20 in practice for the Mont Ventoux Hill Climb near Carpentras. His Lotus Formula 3 car slid off the road and struck a tree."[2]

A shortened version of the course was used in 1976. A revival meeting called "Ronde du Ventoux" was held in 2009.

Winners of the Mont Ventoux Hill Climb

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Key: R = Course Record.

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Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Road & Track, January 2010, Page 90.
  2. [2]
    Oregonian, June 30, 1970, Page 42.
  3. [3]
    For 1905-1907 see: International Motor Cyclopaedia, Year Book-March 1908 to March 1909, Pages 110-111, Publisher: E.E. Schwarzkopf, New York.
  4. [4]
    Road & Track, January 2010, Page 90.
  5. [5]
    Cyril Posthumus, The Roaring Twenties, An Album of Early Motor Racing, Page 42, Blandford Press, 1980.
  6. [6]
    For list of previous winners see: Motor Sport, October 1933, Page 572.
  7. [7]
    Motor Sport, December 1936, Page 29.
  8. [8]
    Motor Sport, November 1948, Page 467.
  9. [9]
    Motor Sport, December 1950, Page 616.
  10. [10]
    Motor Sport, January 1953, Page 11.
  11. [11]
    Motor Sport, January 1957, Page 15.
  12. [12]
    Motor Sport, January 1958, Page 22.
  13. [13]
    Motor Sport, January 1959, Page 31.
  14. [14]
    Motor Sport, January 1960, Page 20.
  15. [15]
    Motor Sport, January 1961, Page 19.
  16. [16]
    Automobile Year, No. 9, 1961-1962, Page 212.
  17. [17]
    Automobile Year, No. 10, 1962-1963, Page 241. Scarfiotti was European Hill Climb Champion in 1962.
  18. [18]
    Motor Sport, February 1964, Page 92.
  19. [19]
    Motor Sport, August 1964, Page 812. Edgar Barth won the Championship class in a Porsche Prototype Flat 8.
  20. [20]
    Motor Sport, September 1965, Page 748.
  21. [21]
    The Autocar, July 1, 1966, Page 51; Motor Sport, January 1967, Page 37.
  22. [22]
    Motor Sport, January 1968, Page 31.
  23. [23]
    Motor Sport, January 1969, Page 34.
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