MOTOR SPORT
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EARLY entries for the 2012 Bathurst Real Estate Australian Hillclimb Championship to be run in November by the Bathurst Light Car Club at Mount Panorama, suggests the event should reach its target of 150 starters.
Canberra’s Michele Guyer has won the race to be the first official entry to the event, as she entered her March 87B open wheel racing car just one hour and 28 minutes after Supplementary Regulations were distributed.
In the first week since the distribution of the regulations, 50 entries were received and information sought by intending competitors at an all time high.
Guyer’s March is a 3800cc Formula Holden, a category of car that has held outright records at most race circuits in Australia.
Guyer’s example has a Larry Perkins built engine and was first raced in Australia.
An IT Specialist away from the race track, Guyer is relatively new to motor sport, having obtained her licence in late 2006.
She cut her teeth hillclimb racing where she has taken the boys on and beaten them on numerous occasions, her first outright win coming in 2009 at Canberra’s Fairbairn Park in the March.
Mount Panorama’s Mountain Straight course where this year’s national championship will be conducted for the first time, should suit the Guyer March.
She admits it is a little bit too big and heavy for hillclimbing, but the 1.7 kilometre fast and wide open Mountain Straight will be different.
There it should ensure that 48-year-old Guyer is one of the drivers going for outright honours and looking to win back the title of Fastest Lady that she won at the 2008 Australian Hillclimb Championship on Mount Panorama’s Esses course and the Haunted Hills in Victoria the previous year.
She is no stranger to Mount Panorama, having competed at several NSW and Australian Hillclimb Championship eve-nts.
Guyer also competes regularly in the Formula Motor Racing Association meetings.