The Southern District Motorsports Association Inc. (SDMA) extends a very warm welcome to you. On competition days, you can see cars on the track from 9am - 3pm.
Entry is off Sutton Road, next to the Driver Training Centre. There is spectator seating and food available.
So come along and check out some local motorsport.
The Canberra Hillclimb is located within the Fairbairn Park Motorsport complex. Access is off Sutton Road, which runs off Pialligo Avenue between Queanbeyan and the Canberra Airport.
The approximately one-kilometre long asphalt track is a Q shape that loops back to allow hillclimbs to be run over one or two laps. The circuit was purpose-built in the 1970's, and thanks to the dedication and hard work of club members, is regarded as one of the best hillclimb venues in NSW/ACT.
Drivers enjoy a personal race against the clock and also compete against other drivers in cars of similar performance who are also eager to get around the Hill in the fastest time! The ultimate achievement at each event is to establish the Fastest Time of the Day ‘FTD’.
Hillclimb cars range from street registered cars to purpose built racing cars. They are split into Types according to the vehicle and its modifications and then into Classes according to engine capacity.
The pinnacle of hillclimbing machinery is the unlimited capacity racing cars (Formula Libre). These cars have a variety of engines, some are from motorcycles, also supercharged and turbo engines, turbo rotaries and naturally aspirated V8's, all with huge amounts of horsepower! Wide soft slick tyres transfer the power onto the race track.
Open wheel racing cars, Mitsubishi Evo's, Mazda RX7's and even a Kart have achieved FTD at our events. Skill and courage are essential to pilot one of the big horsepower racers up the Hill.
The track is a high quality bitumen surface (Bathurst mix). At the Start Line there is a short length concrete pad where the drivers can spin the driving wheels in order to clean off dust and gravel and put some heat into the tyres. The cars breaks a light beam at the Start and Finish lines in order to start and stop the digital timing equipment.
Cars are timed to the nearest one-hundredth of a second (0.01sec), which may seem like a tiny amount, but is one which often decides a class win.
The challenge of Hillclimb racing lies in each driver's battle against the clock as they attempt to cover the course in the shortest possible time. Similar cars may compete against each other, with entries divided into Types and Classes. FTD is for a single run of the track, not an average of all runs completed on the day.
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