Didn’t want to break it any further than it already was.” “We were still having issues,” Moreck said of his plans for Sunday, “so we just decided to close it up. In fact, he didn’t plan to run at all Sunday after his Koenigsegg FTF Norma P1 developed some motor problems Saturday. Moreck wasn’t one of those last-second scramblers. “Some of the guys, they were trying to get out there – it was only drizzling at that point – but they were a second slow.” With more rain predicted throughout the day, the amount of work it would take to clean up the course and facing an expecting lengthy delay while waiting for the course to become dry enough to give competitors a safe try, Giants Despair officials called off the remainder of the event at approximately 11:15 a.m. Pools of water slowed traffic to a near stall just down from the course on Northampton Street while the storm littered sections of the windy one-mile course of Laurel Run Road with mud, rocks and other debris pulled down from the mountains by fast-flowing water run-off.
Turned out, those flash flood warnings were real. “I just got in the starting gate, ready to go and it started to rain,” said Danko, a past president of the Giants Despair Hillclimb Board and a current board member. With Jack Danko all geared up in his 2008 Radical, a severe thunderstorm that brought torrents of rain, lightning and thunder quickly followed. Only a handful of drivers had a chance to take a crack at Day 2 of the hill climb before raindrops began falling just after 10 a.m Sunday. The grand finale of the two-day event didn’t turn out so well, as it stopped just as it was getting started. One run was all Moreck really needed to win the iconic Giants Despair Hillclimb, as his initial run of 40.167 the previous day stood up through Sunday’s rain-shorted finish and broke a two-decade drought between victories for the seven-time course champion. LAUREL RUN - A speedy start propelled Ron Moreck to the front of the field. Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.
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