Mont Ventoux Hill Climb

Mont Ventoux Hill Climb is a car and motorcycle hillclimbing race course near Avignon in France. The course, up Mont Ventoux, starts from the village of Bédoin and rises for , to the observatory at the summit, for an average gradient of 7.4%.
In 1970: "Andre Willem of Belgium was killed June 20 in practice for the Mont Ventoux Hill Climb near Carpentras. His Lotus Formula 3 car slid off the road and struck a tree." 
A shortened version of the course was used in 1976. A revival meeting called "Ronde du Ventoux" was held in 2009.
Winners of the Mont Ventoux Hill Climb.
Key: R = Course Record.