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HOW A SUMMERS DREAM BECAME REALITY

Hillclimbing has always been a hotbed of design innovation, and a whole industry has grown around the construction of low-volume single-seater racing cars.

Current British Hillclimb Championship contender Alex Summers has now joined the select band of drivers who have built their own car and it has taken seven years of effort, frustration and tears. Yet the P4t is not currently destined to be a BHC challenger.

Seven years after the initial sketches, the car ran for the first time at Loton Park in late March. Those years were an emotional rollercoaster for 2015 British Hillclimb champion Summers and his family, but

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