The King of the Mountains is dead. Mauro Nesti, 78, winner of eight European Hill Climb Championships—six of them in succession from 1983-1988—and 17 Italian titles in the same branch of the sport, died at his home in Bardalone, Italy in November after a long illness.
Nesti won the same number of European hillclimb titles as his more famous predecessors Rudolf Caracciola, Hans Stuck, Lodovico Scarfiotti and Wolfgang von Trips put together. And he was the runner-up in 1973, 1974, 1978 and 1979. Almost all in a Lola T296 BMW and an Osella PA9 BMW.
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