Drivers warm up their tyres before racing up Coronet Hill against the clock on Saturday. See page 3 for more photographs.
Stu Weeber, of Christchurch, at the starting line of the Fuchs Coronet Peak Hill Climb, near Queenstown, on Saturday. The Subaru won the 1995 Monte Carlo Rally with former world champion Carlos Sainz at the wheel, climb organisers said.
Queenstown's own Tony Coulter navigates a chicane in a Datsun 1200 SSS.
Queenstown Car Club president Julian Ford tears up the hill in his Toyota Starlet.
Dan Barlow, of Queenstown, rides a Ford Capri. Photos by James Beech.
The earsplitting roar of finely tuned engines and the smell of exhaust and warm rubber confirmed without question where the Fuchs Coronet Peak Hill Climb was being held on Saturday.
Motor sport fans watched almost 50 rally cars as they raced against the clock on the access road to the skifield on Saturday, then on a private unsealed track for the Tucker's Beach Gravel Hill Climb yesterday.
The events were hosted by the Queenstown Car Club in association with Motorsport New Zealand.
