The Bergrennen is now a regular event on the Oldspeed Calendar and last years event was as good as ever, the Oldtimer Oldspeed Club had there own tuning HQ on the mountain this time.
Last year saw the first female to race up the mountain, not only did she drive like a demon but took some fantastic photo's too, big respect to Solveig....
There was also a guest appearance of a Saab 92B, but after a thrashing on the gravel road leading to OOC HQ the fuel pump became faulty, so it never got a full run at the Mountain.
All the usual suspects were in attendance, with some guests from Sweden, there was once again some big hp racing so the race organisers decided to make it the closest times from 2 runs to make it a more even playing field. Yet again Danne would take the honours for the OOC, this time running an original Pepco on his 30hp motor.
The mountain nearly killed the little 2 stroke Saab and we managed to limp it back to Oslo with failing brakes, but fear not after some OOC treatment it will be back to assult the mountain....
As always we had a fantastic time and a BIG thank you to all involved in organising and taking part in the Bergrennen and see you all again this year.
Rättvik Hill climb
While in Sweden this summer we took part in the Rättvik hill climb, turning up for technical control with a very casual attitude we started to realise that nearly all the cars were appendix K for historic rallyes and all had gravel tyres.
It was not until the next morning when we arrived at the hill did we realise what we had let ourselves in for.....
The hill was steep, 3/4 or it on gravel and we didn't have gravel tyres unlike the local guys!
As there were many vehicles with different amounts of horsepower, the rules were that it wasn't the fastest up the hill.
Every competitor got two runs up the hill and the one with the closest times over the two runs was the winner.
Danne did fantastic in his Zwitter with a 30hp motor and came 3rd.
We plan to return with the correct tyres, watch this space....
We did actually acquire a soft spot for SAAB's and there are now three in the Oldtimer Oldspeed Club, there is some two stroke tuning on the horizon, but that's a future feature.......
