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The Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race, also known as the Climb to the Clouds, is a timed hillclimb auto race up the Mount Washington Auto Road to the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. [1] It is one of the oldest auto races in the country, first run on July 11 and 12, 1904, predating the Indianapolis 500 and the Pikes Peak Hill Climb.
VSC built several record-winning cars for the Mount Washington Hill Climb, a 7.6-mile sprint to the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. VSC entered Travis Pastrana at the wheel of the Airslayer STI, the car utilized in the Gymkhana 2020 video with Pastrana, at the 2021 Mt. Washington Hillclimb.
The Climb to the Clouds hillclimb on the 7.4-mile (11.9 km) course up the Mount Washington Auto Road on Mount Washington, New Hampshire is one of the oldest motorsports events in North America, first run in 1904. However, this climb has been held only sporadically since 1961.
In August of each year, up to six hundred riders take part in the race which centers around a 7.6 mile (12.2 km) climb to the top of New Hampshire's Mount Washington—the highest peak in New England. [1] The Mount Washington Auto Road has an average gradient of 12% and reaches gradients of up to 22%. [1]
Harkness was an avid race car driver, and won the first Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race.One of his more famous races was against Henry Ford.Harkness led a group of investors who bought the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, a thoroughbred horse racing facility they converted to use as an auto racing track.
According to a Deschutes National Forest report, many others attempted the 7,795-foot Mount Washington climb including the famed alpinists of Portland’s Mazamas, who stopped 70 feet short of the ...
He also helped restart the Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race in 1990 and served as Chief Steward of the hillclimb from 1990 to 2000, again in 2011 and again in 2017. [ 2 ] Since the late 1980s, Buffum has owned and managed Libra Racing based in Colchester, Vermont .
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