The annual three day event in the outskirt hills of Simola lead up to the coveted King of the Hill finals. The Sunday session has the pitlane filled with purpose built machinery and rapid single seaters, all seeking the illustrious title for arguably the best event on the local motorsport calendar.
After the downpour from the preceding days, the weather had yielded moderate temperatures with blue skies above, dappled with the odd cloud lurking in the distance. This means that the three morning qualifying sessions enabled the competitors of the King of the Hill finals to perform clean runs with a relatively dry track, save for the odd few wet patches from water furrows at their underground capacity. 
The first record to be broken was done by Ciro de Siena in the all-electric BMW i4 M50 which claimed the EV title at the Simola Hillclimb while triumphing against the pair of front-wheel driven VW e-Golfs. While the silent Bavarian managed 49.307 sec up the track, all eyes were on the purpose built single seaters which were as powerful as they were deafening. 
Andre Bezuidenhout, in the purpose built 2009 Gould GR55 hill climb single seater may not have improved on his record from last year in the class finals but the Top 10 Shootout proved otherwise. He managed to complete the final dash up the 1,9 km mountain in a record time of 34.161 sec, which is just under a second faster than his record from 2021. By doing so, his average speed from a standing start registered at 201,18 kmh.
As with all motorsport, some of the hillclimb challengers suffered mechanical issues when it really counted. Reghard Roets suffered technical issues in his run up the hill with his Nissan GT-R and as a result could not lament a challenge to Franco Scribante in his easily recognisable GT-R equipped with wings galore. Scribante managed a 39.382 sec. Technical problems also occurred at an inopportune time with Aldo Scribante in his worked 2011 Audi S4 and he only managed to take third in class.
Considering this has been the first event to take place with spectators since motoring events were disrupted by Covid-19, the turount of approximately 3000 people for the King of the Hill finals added to the atmosphere with formalities hopefully returning to normal in the 2023 edition.
