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Ananda de Alwis in 48th year at Mahagastota Speed Hill Climb

HILL CLIMB: Seventy three year-old Ananda de Alwis could be the proud owner of a world record and there is a possibility of getting his name in the Guiness Book of World Records when he participated for the 48th successive year at the 77th Mahagastota Speed Hill Climb 2011 organised by the Ceylon Motor Sports Club and worked off at Mahagastota Group in Nanu Oya in April this year.

Yes, he participated at this oldest hill climb in South Asia for 48 years in-a-row which speaks volumes about his dedication and love for this highly competitive sport which many consider as dangerous and a slight failurs of the reflexes or lack in concentration could result in disaster as speed is the main factor in sector racing and if you do not stop on the gas with skills you could end up a cropper.

At the age of 73, Ananda de Alwis who is a retired planter and consultant, has not had any mishaps which is another record.

Ananda de Alwis who is from Colombo came upcountry in 1964 to take up appointment as a young trainee planter in the "Nuwara Eliya District in 1964. Like duck taking to water, he took part at the Mahagastota Hill Climb the same year in an old Austin and since then he has been participating every year in different vehicles till he acquired the 1978 model Ford Mexico in 1978 and since then he has been using this machine at every race whether hill climb, circuit race (both tarmac and gravel) and rallies.

Ananda de Alwis said that driving the same vehicle for 33 years in a row could be also a record.

This machine though a standard model is race prepared and is used only for races and on other days it lies idle in his Estate at Nittambuwa.

At 73 he is an epitome of fitness and the age defies his physical fitness, stamina and endurance with which he is gifted.

 

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