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Aran Cook in his FL class Arco X10 The Leavitt Machinery Knox Mountain Hillclimb is run annually on Knox Mountain Park Road, in the City of Kelowna, British Columbia. The Western Canadian road, while paved, is narrow with off-camber corners, and steep grades; a nice Sunday drive for sure, but hardly a race track. It is 2.2 miles (3.5km) long, and climbs approximately 800 feet (245 meters) in elevation for an average grade of 6.7%. It is a true challenge to drivers who come from many States as wll as other Canadian Provinces. The 62nd annual Leavitt Machinery Knox Mountain hill climb had a stacked field in 2018 with an incredible thirteen drivers in five different classes making it up the hill under the magical two-minute mark. The top three drivers produced runs that would rank in the top ten fastest times ever on Knox Mountain and that was impressive indeed! The Knox Mountain hill climb is the longest 20
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running sealed surface hill climb in North America. Having run in the Okanagan Valley of BC since 1958. It is also the last Confederation of Autosport Car Clubs recognised hill climb in Canada. The overall record has been held since 2007 by John Haftner in his highly modified turbo-charged TUI SuperVee single seater. No one has ever really come close to his time of 1:37.065. The next nearest time having been run by Joe Cheng back in 2002 with a 1:43.834. Any time under two minutes is incredibly fast, to achieve a sub two minute racers have to average more than 66-miles per hour up the 2.2 mile course with three hairpin turns which many cars negotiate in first gear. This year saw a few returning Kings of the Hill, including two notable GT cars. Wouter Bouman was back this year with his incredible triple rotor 1993 Mazda RX7. Bouman from Nanaimo, BC was King of the Hill in 2015, 2016 and again in 2017 with his incredible GTO classed car. He has owned
