European motorsport includes several styles of racing that are popular on the continent that are a bit more obscure on this side of the pond. Among these are hillclimbing and truck racing, both of which enjoy full calendars in countries all over Europe. So it’s only natural, one supposes, that there is a mash-up of the two genres in the form of Egon Allgauer’s 1,200-horsepower MAN hillclimb truck. But that’s not even what’s great about Allgauer’s truck; the best part is that a cigar distributor sponsors Allgauer and he accordingly has a massive cigar prop mounted behind the tractor’s cab. Big, smoky cigar truck? Yes, please.
Egon Allgauer is a veteran truck racer from Austria who has raced in several iterations of the European truck series. While he also races sports cars in the VLN series at Nurburgring and occasionally in other GT3 series, Allgauer has rolled the MAN out for the last two Glasbach Bergrennen hill climbs in the central German state of Thuringia. The Glasbach climb is one of the shorter ones on the FIA European Hill Climb Championshiop at 5.5 kilometers, but in a 10,000-pound rig, it’s surely a demanding one without any long straightaways to give a moment’s breath.
Could have been a dildo producer? 🙂
Maybe this year? Glasbach Rennen is in two weeks.
Naaaah mon, that’s the Jamaican Hill Climb Team’s mobile spliff support vehicle on an urgent mission to give them the courage to unleash their Top Fuel Hill
Climb Dragster on a new down-hill brakeless speed record….