Dean Amos wins opening rounds of NSW Hillclimb Championship at Bathurst

Amos finished ahead of Greg Ackland and Dean Tighe in second and third respectively in the Esses event on Saturday, after he produced the best time of 22 minutes and 25 seconds, well over a minute better than second place.

Amos then finished first in the Mountain Straight event on Sunday, with Ron Hay taking the runners-up position this time, with Tighe coming in third again, while Ackland did not compete. Amos won the day two event in a time of 37 minutes and five seconds.

Competition secretary Bob Lundie-Jenkins said entries were at capacity for the two day event, with two standby drivers getting their chance on Saturday after some later withdrawals.

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"Our permit number for the amount of entries we were allowed to have under the Motorsport Australia rules was 90 and we had 92 entries at the close," he said.

"There were two reserves and those reserves actually got a run because we had a couple of late withdrawals on the Saturday morning.

"We had 90 competitors at the start of the first day, but we didn't have 90 at the start of the second day due to cars breaking down and stuff like that."

Lundie-Jenkins described the weekend as a success, thanks partially to great weather and strong contingent of volunteers, which he said was more than those at the Bathurst 500 on March 5-7.

"Weather was kind to us on both days and the overall response from competitors was that it was a great weekend," he said.

"We had a couple of little hiccups with our timing. We actually had a car run into the finish line, which cleaned up the sensor at the finish line. We had a bit of delayed in that being fixed.

"Overall we got four runs in over both days. To get four runs on Mountain Straight particularly is a bit of a success story. We actually finished racing on 5.30pm and we had half an hour to get the track back open, which we did. It was down to the wire.

"From the Bathurst Light Car Club perspective, it was a resounding success. We owe it all to the volunteers who put their hands up that helped us out on the weekend.

"We actually had more volunteers at this event then what Supercars had at the 500, in terms of numbers of people on flag points and things like that. Mind you, they close the entire track, we only close certain sections of it."

For a complete list of results from both the Esses and Mountain Straight events on the weekend, visit the Bathurst Light Car Club's website at www.bathurstlightcarclub.com.au.

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