On 26 July 2026, Swiss driver Robin Faustini won the 48th Ayent-Anzère hillclimb in the canton of Valais. The weather didn’t cooperate. Faustini won anyway, stretching his streak in the Swiss Hillclimb Championship to 19 consecutive rounds.
In hillclimb racing, drivers don’t race each other. They race the clock. Cars start one at a time, at set intervals, and the climb time decides everything. So a streak of 19 straight wins isn’t about grabbing a good starting slot – it means being fastest, round after round, whatever the weather throws at you and whoever else turns up. The Swiss Hillclimb Championship runs several of these rounds a year on closed mountain roads across the country, and every round’s points feed into the season standings. Get the tyre choice wrong, or catch one extra drop of rain on the tarmac, and a driver can lose their spot. Nineteen wins in a row means driver, car and setup lining up correctly, again and again, without a single off day.
Second place in the overall classification went to Joël Volluz, with Victor Darbellay third. Organizers logged 222 entrants – a strong field for a national championship round, and one that pulled drivers from well outside Valais.
This year marked the 48th running of Ayent-Anzère – a history long enough that the race has been drawing both overall and regional contenders for decades.
Swiss hillclimb racing runs several classifications inside one round: the overall table compares every entrant’s time regardless of equipment, while the regional classification ranks the same round separately. Same track, same weekend, two different stories: a commanding lead up top, and a knife-edge fight one level down.
A day earlier, on 25 July, the regional category came down to thousandths of a second. Mattia Stacchi beat Patrick Jakober by just 0.004 seconds, with Michael Meneghel third. Hillclimb timing runs to the thousandth for exactly this reason – margins that small sit right at the edge of what a stopwatch can even measure. Next to Faustini’s streak, which looks close to unbeatable, this result is a reminder of how thin the gap between first and second can be, on the same track, the same weekend. Four thousandths of a second. That’s the kind of number hillclimb fans track closely – not just who won, but by how much. Rolling Slots players know that instinct too, watching bonus terms and payout rates just as closely and rollingslots-swiss.com has built a following among motorsport fans and betting regulars over the past few seasons.
Nineteen wins in a row is a strong case against coincidence. To break a run like that, rivals need more than one good lap. They need Faustini himself to slip for several rounds running, and there’s no sign of that yet. Every race left this season is really just another test of whether the streak holds one more round.
The 0.004-second gap between Stacchi and Jakober was one of the tightest finishes of the Ayent-Anzère weekend. It’s exactly this kind of result that keeps the discipline gripping even when the overall table looks like a foregone conclusion: trackside fans already know who tops the standings, but they have no idea who’ll win the fight next door, settled by a margin measured in fractions of a second.
