Category | single-seater cars, open-cockpit sports prototypes, and touring cars |
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Country | International |
Inaugural season | 2014 |
The FIA Hill Climb Masters is an FIA-run motorsport bi-annual [1] competition, created in 2014, with the goal of reuniting the world's top hill climb drivers in a single event to showcase the discipline and to celebrate national and FIA champions of the year gone by. [2]
The Masters bring together the winners of national championships, and the winners of the FIA Hill Climb Competitions. For this event, each of the drivers has to race with the same car used during the season.
There are two classifications: one Individual Classification and a Nations Cup.
Year | Location | Class | Driver | Car | Nations Cup |
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2014 | Eschdorf | Cat. I | Yanick Bodson | Porsche 997 GT3 Cup | Italy |
Cat. II | Eric Berguerand | Lola B99-Cosworth | |||
Cat. III | Nicolas Schatz | Norma M20 FC V8-BMW | |||
2016 [3] | Šternberk | Cat. I | Lucio Peruggini | Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 | Slovakia |
Cat. II | Simone Faggioli | Norma M20FC-Zytek | |||
Cat. III | Scott Moran | Gould GR61X-NME | |||
2018 | Gubbio | Cat. I | Lucio Peruggini | Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 | Luxembourg |
Cat. II | Christian Merli | Osella FA30 Evo-Zytek | |||
Cat. III | Roger Schnellmann | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | |||
Cat. IV | Will Hall | Force WH-Xtec | |||
2021 [4] | Braga | Cat. I | Szymon Łukaszczyk | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V | France |
Cat. II | Christian Merli | Osella FA30-Zytek | |||
Cat. III | Reto Maisel | Mercedes-Benz SLK 340 | |||
Cat. IV | Geoffrey Schatz | NP01-2 Oreca | |||
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