Course de côte de Trier, Hill climbing race course in Trier-Saarburg, Germany
The Course de côte de Trier is a hill climbing race course in the Trier-Saarburg region. The route follows a road between the towns of Fell and Thomm with several tight turns along the ascent.
The Trierer Bergrennen was held from 1971 to 2011, organised by Racing Team Trier e.V. on the K82 road between Fell and Thomm. It counted towards the European Hillclimb Championship from 1991, and from 2002 to 2015 its route was also driven in the opposite direction by the Rallye Deutschland. After 2011 the European round passed to the Glasbachrennen in the Thuringian Forest.
The event was organised by Racing Team Trier e.V., and the course ran on Kreisstraße 82 from Fell to Thomm. From 2002 to 2015 the same road was driven in the opposite direction as a stage of the Rallye Deutschland. In May and June 2026 the route hosted hillclimb slaloms and the Historisches Bergrennen Moseltal, with about 140 drivers from Germany, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
The course runs along Kreisstraße 82 from Fell to Thomm, climbing 233 metres over 3,715 km at an average gradient of 6.3 percent through five hairpins. The road was resurfaced and its crash barriers renewed before the 2026 events, when hillclimb slaloms and the Historisches Bergrennen Moseltal returned to the route.
Simone Faggioli set the absolute record in 2010 with a time of 1:29.786 minutes, an average speed of 148.954 km/h. The touring car record belongs to Georg Plasa, who in 2011 drove a BMW E82 with a Judd V8 engine up the course in 1:38.783 minutes. Karl Jordan is the only three-time winner, though only in purely national championships.
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