David Hauser back in the GP2 13.04.2016: Good news for his numerous fans all over Europe: David Hauser will turn back

Good news for his numerous fans all over Europe: David Hauser will turn back from the Wolf GB08F1 to the cockpit of the Dallara GP2 this year: “After having sold our car, we’ve been discussing for a long time which racecar we should choose.


But as there might be some fundamental rule changes in the international hill climb championships coming up in 2018, we found the moment wasn’t opportune to invest lots of money in a new car which might not be competitive medium to long term.


 And on the other hand, our fans kept on imploring us to bring back the GP2 to hillraces.”


Racing Experience eventually chose this last mentioned option, but decided to run the GP2 in the original configuration with the 4 liters Mecachrome-V8 engine which is also used in GP2 circuit races:


“Our former 3 liters engine which we used in our GP2 during the 2012 and 2013 seasons is no longer available, and the conception of the car is too complicated to make it possible to fix a foreign engine, for example the one from a formula 3000.


That’s also why we can’t compete in European Hill Climb Championship this year, as there the single-seater’s displacement is still limited to 3 liters”, explains team manager Christian Hauser.


“But we will take part in several races of Luxembourg’s hill climb championship to try to qualify for the second edition of the FIA Masters which will be held at Sternberk/Ecce Homo (Czech Republic) at the end of the season.


There, David can run the GP2 in category 3 “Open”, as well as the UK-drivers with their very specific single-seaters and the French top drivers with their CN+ sportscars with 4 liters engine.”


Much to the delight of the hill climb fans, which meanwhile have been over a million to view David Hauser’s onboard-video driving his GP2 up the St Ursanne/Les Rangiers hill (Switzerland) in 2013 on youtube.





Hill Climb races (David Hauser):


22nd-24th April : Abreschviller (F)

6th-8th May : Eschdorf (L)

24th-26th June : La Broque/Schirmeck (F)

15th-17th July : Homburg (D)

5th-7th August : Osnabrück (D)

19th-21th August : St Ursanne/Les Rangiers (CH)

2nd-4th September : Turckheim/Trois-Epis (F)

7th-9th October : FIA Hill Climb Masters Ecce Homo/Sternberk (CZ)



- Patrick Weber - photo Racing Experience