JCB Photography was at Croft Circuit along with most of the official Teams and Driver entries for the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship 2025 on Wednesday 2nd April for the second day of the official TOCA test days.

Both of the two days testing at Croft would be under some nice spring sunshine, making a change from last years rain.

Young rookie Max Hall had set the festest time on Tuesday. Max driving his Un-Limited Motorsport Cupra time remained unbeaten until reigning Jack Sears Trophy Champion, Mikey Doble driving the Motor Parts Direct with Power Maxed Racing’s, Vauxhall Astra finaly beat the time set by Max in the final hour of testing.

The 2025 competitive season will kick off on 26th and 27th April at Donington Park Circuit using the National circuit for Rounds 1, 2 and 3.

The BTCC will return to Croft on 2nd and 3rd August for Rounds 16, 17 and 18 with the season rounded off at Brands Hatch (using the Grand Prix circuit) for Round 28, 29 and 30 on 4th and 5th October.

Full timings for both test days at Croft Circuit can be found below:

https://www.tsl-timing.com/file/?f=TOCA/2025/251441trg.pdf

JCB Photography was at Cadwell Park Circuit for the Cadwell Sprint on Saturday 23rd March 2024. The event was organised by BARC Midlands Centre.

The Sprint was attended by several clubs including Hillclimb and Sprint Association (HSA), BARC, Lotus Cup, MG Car Club, TR Register, Nottingham Sports Car Club and Morgan Sports Car Club, all competitors competing in different Speed Championships.

The event got under way around nine o’clock with the Practice run, followed by three timed runs. With the sun out for some of the morning the rest of the day was dry but with a very icy strong wind.

The Sprint start was just outside the Hospitality building and not at the race track start-line and the finish was near the pedestrian bridge, so the competitors did not get to go up the famous The Mountain climb, part of the race track. The Sprint Course is 3.15km in length.

In the National event Peter Goulding driving a Mygale FF200 set the Best Time of Day , while in the Inter-club event Anthony Middleton driving his Westfield SEi set the Best Time of the Day.

National Results:

https://www.barc-midlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BARC-Midlands-Cadwell-Park-Sprint-Event-Results-National-29-03-2025.pdf

Inter-club Results:

https://www.barc-midlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BARC-Midlands-Cadwell-Park-Sprint-Event-Results-Interclub-29-03-2025.pdf

JCB Photography was at Harewood Hill for the BARC Yorkshire Centre 2025 season opener, which got underway on Sunday 23rd March, with the Practice Day Hillclimb meeting.

With a full entry list of eighty Competitors, a number of new drivers and cars.

The organisers have been busy during the closed season with new armco installed on the on both sides of the straight, from Clark’s all the way down to the Esses. Then a single section at Chippy’s. This will be a Save Pull off Place, which can be used to store a broken-down car prior to be recovered at a later time in the proceedings.

Harewood Hill is the longest speed hillclimb venue in the UK, with a truly spectacular setting looking over the valley of the Wharfedale valley.

The event got underway at 9:00, with a couple of puddles in the lower half of the track but was damp throughout the entire length of the track after rain on Saturday afternoon and overnight. It did start raining again during the early morning runs, so competitors would have some slippy conditions until the rain stopped and it would be up to this breeze to dry the track out, as the sun didn’t really come out. In the distant it always looked misty. So, it took until the afternoon runs before the single seaters fitted slick tyres from the morning's wets.

Mark Hemingway driving his Force TA set the Fastest Time of the Day. Also driving a Force TA was Simon Jenks who set the second fastest time and John Prickett driving his Radical set the third. These three were the only drivers to get under sixty seconds during the day.

Practice Day Run Times can be found here:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_86a994a487174717aca3d445a61450b3.pdf

The 2025 BARC Yorkshire Centre’s, first Championship meeting for the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship is on 13th April for the Spring National Hillclimb.

Many thanks to BARC Yorkshire centre for the opportunity to be track-side and not forgetting all the Marshals, Medical and Rescue teams including Darlington Motor Club Rescue without which the event could not take place.

JCB Photography was at Donington Park Circuit for the TEGIWA Dukeries Rally on Sunday 16th March 2025.

The event is organized by the Dukeries Motor Club and was a round of the 2024/25 Protyre Circuit Rally Championship along with several Regional Association Stage Rally Championships including Dukeries Motor Club’s own rally championship.

This was the 65th running of the event and entries included Ford Fiesta R5‘s along with a number of other classes R5 cars from different manufacturers together with many popular clubman cars, such as the Ford Escort’s, Nissan Micra’s, Mazda MX5 along with a variety of BMW's, and Peugeot's.

Using the Donington Park Circuit, with around 50 stages miles over seven Special Stages all within the confines of the Circuit but also using some of the access roads around the track and off-road sections on the infield.

The crews would have to complete a couple of laps of the track with chicanes and would also include a number of merges and split points along the route, this could result in two rally cars been on the same part of the track at the same time, which is quite unusual for rally crews in the open forestry commission stages.

The winners of the 2025 TEGIWA Dukeries Rally held at Donington Circuit were John Griffiths and co-driver Emma Morrison driving a Skoda Fabia R5

2nd Michael Igoe and co-driver Will Atkins driving a Citroen C3 Rally 2

3rd Chris West and co-driver Keith Hounslow driving a Peugeot 306 Maxi Kit Car

Full Results for the Donington Stages Rally can be found here:

https://www.rallies.info/res?e=629

JCB Photography was at the East Riding Stages Rally on Sunday 23rd February 2025. For Special Stages 5 & 6 at Westwood Super Special in the market town of Beverley in East Yorkshire. The event was organized by the Beverley & District Motor Club.

The event is only one of five closed road rallies in the country. Which means that the club use closed public roads which are then used as special stages for the event. Competitors use other public roads to get to each stage, so the cars have to be road legal and obey the highway code.

With five stages, each run twice and a ceremonial start and finish in Beverley’s Saturday Market Place. The first of approximately 170 competitors were flagged away at 9 o’clock.

The rally featured some challenging stages across East Yorkshire’s roads, attracting some of the best competitors from across the UK and Ireland. A large number of competitors were driving Ford Fiesta’s of different specs, from WRC to R5 and R2’s. Along with a number of competitors driving Rally 2 machines from Toyota GR Yaris, Hyundai I20 N, Skoda Fabia to Citroen C3’s. The grass roots clubman was out in Ford Escort’s, Subaru Impreza’s and Mitsubishi Evo’s, along with a number of Clio’s and BMW Mini’s.

With many thousands of rally fans, lining the stage at Westwood Super Special, despite the forecast for strong winds and rain. The rain started just before the action got underway for the start of SS5. Which would at the very least mean a very greasy surface for competitors.

Special Stage 5 got under way then only fifteen minutes later, Special Stage 6 got under way. So, for the spectators this meant that several cars could be on the stage at the same time, so a Rally car would come into view every 30 seconds. As later cars starting SS5 would also be setting off as well as cars starting SS6.

A number of competitors hit trouble in the first couple of stages, including last year's winner Mark Kelly with co-driver Will Atkins in the VW Polo.

East Riding Stages Rally Top 3.

1st William Creighton driving the Toyota Yaris Rally 2 Car#3, with co-driver Liam Regan

2nd Keith Cronin driving the Citroen C3 Rally 2 Car#2, with co-driver Mikie Galvin

3rd James Williams driving the Hyundai I20N Rally2 Car#4, with co-driver Ross Whittock

Full Results from the event can be found here:

2025 events taking place at Harewood Hillclimb. These dates included meetings for the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship but also include two meetings of the British Hillclimb Championship and a meeting organised for the Vintage Sports Car Club.

Harewood Speed Hillclimb 2025 Events:

23rd March. Practice Day. Harewood Speed Hillclimb. (Non Championship Event)

13th April Spring National Hillclimb. Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship

10th May Harewood Open Hillclimb. Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship

11th May British Championship Hillclimb. (Non Harewood Championship event)

7th June Classic and Vintage Hillclimb. (Non Harewood Championship event)

8th June Jim Thomson Hillclimb. Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship

5th & 6th July British Hillclimb Championship. (Non Harewood Championship event)

2nd August Yorkshire Speed Hillclimb. Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship

3rd August Montague Burton Hillclimb. Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship

24th August Summer Championship Hillclimb. Including M/Cycles. Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship

20th September Greenwood Cup Hillclimb. Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship

21st September Mike Wilson Hillclimb. Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship

Greenwood Cup and Mike Wilson Hillclimb.

JCB Photography was at Harewood Hill over the weekend of 21st and 22nd September 2024 for the Greenwood Cup and Mike Wilson Hillclimb which were rounds seven and eight. This was the final weekend of the 2024 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship season.

Greenwood Cup Hillclimb

Also joining in on the action on the Saturday were a number of competitors from the Pre War Austin Seven Club. Along with competitors from the TR Register and MG Car Club, who were on track both days.

Saturday’s weather turned out to be the better of the two days even though it was overcast. The sun did come out just after the lunch-break with a light breeze.

A number of competitors set new class records:

Class 19 B for Pre war Austin 7 Club track cars. Stuart Blackham driving the Austin 7 Pigsty Special.

Class 1A Road cars up to and including 1400cc. Adam Riley driving the VW UP.

Class 2A Road cars Specialist Production Kit cars. Henry Moorhouse driving the Honda powered Westfield.

Fastest Time of the Day was set by Morgan Jenkins driving the Pilbeam MP97 with Mark Hemingway driving a Force TA taking second and Jake Bellerby driving his OMS 2000M setting the third fastest time.

Full Results from the Greenwood Cup Hillclimb can be found here:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_7bbf20d4a0f749c3a2f0956a3f369923.pdf

Mike Wilson Hillclimb

One class record was broken, Class 1 A, Road Cars Series Production up to and including 1400cc. The Class record had only stood for less than twenty four hours and was again set by Adam Riley in the VW UP. He managed to shave another tenth of a second off the record.

Harewood Hillclimb Championship.

Adam Riley yet again retains the Harewood Hillclimb Championship crown after leading from the first event of the season and also setting several new class records for Class 1A, Road Cars series Production up to and including 1400cc in the front wheel drive VW UP. Adam first broke the class record in only his second meeting in the new car at Harewood. This was the Jim Thomson Hillclimb, in June. He then broke his own record in the Rescheduled Spring Championship event in August and on both meetings this weekend.

Adam is now a quadruple Harewood Champion, having won the Championship in 2023 driving Karl Jackson’s rear wheel drive Honda S2000 and in 2022 and 2021 driving his own Honda S2000. Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec finished in second place and Henry Moorhouse driving the Honda powered Westfield in third place.

Henry Moorhouse and Simon Green have both been pushing Adam since the first meeting of the season back in May and have set their own Class records throughout the season.

Fast Time of the Day Award Series (FTD Award Series)

David Tatham has lead the series since the Yorkshire Speed Hillclimb meeting at the beginning of August. He had been driving his DJ Firehawk but due to engine issues he has had to swap to the McLaren M12C. He won the Montague Burton Hillclimb but since the Rescheduled Spring Championship meeting he has been driving the McLaren.

However after dropped points are taken into account, Jake Bellerby wins the Harewood FTD Award Series driving his OMS 2000M, from Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec, and David Tatham driving the McLaren M12C falls down to third place.

Fastest Time of the Day was set by Mark Hemingway driving a Force TA.

Full Results from the Mike Wilson Hillclimb can be found here:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_d4adfca33d1f485b968b9aac715f873b.pdf

Final Harewood Championship Standings 2024 Results:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_912af9d43b0149b58cc184f9808418bd.pdf

Final Harewood FTD Award Series 2024 Results:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_64aee11bfdff4efabae251e61aa4e8a7.pdf

Many thanks to BARC Yorkshire centre for the opportunity to be track side in 2024. Also not forgetting all the Marshals, Medical and the Extractor Rescue team, along with all the back office staff without which the events at Harewood Hill could not take place.

The 2025 season will kick off with Practice Day in March.

Full Harewood Hill events 2025.

Key. Dates in Blue are Non Harewood Championship events.

13th April. Spring Championship

10th May. Harewood Open

11th May. May British Hillclimb Championship

7th June. Classic & Vintage

8th June. Jim Thomson

5th-6th July. July British Hillclimb Championship

2nd August. Yorkshire speed

3rd August. Montague Burton

24th August. Summer Championship

20th September. Greenwood Cup

21st September. Mike Wilson

Competitors of the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship were competing at Harewood Hill over the weekend of 24th and 25th August for the Spring and Summer Championship Hillclimb meeting along with two and three wheeled competitors joining in on the action on the Sunday.

Spring Championship Hillclimb

This event was postponed back in April due to the very wet spring, leavening the Paddock and car parking areas unusable around the famous Yorkshire hill.

The events were Round’s five and six of the 2024 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship, organised by the BARC Yorkshire Centre.

With two practice runs and a timed run completed before the lunch break, followed by two timed runs in the afternoon and a total start entry of 116 cars.

Saturday’s weather turned out to be the better of the two days even though it was overcast with a breeze, which resulted in perfect track conditions, for a number of competitors to set new class records:

Fastest Time of the Day was set by Mark Hemingway driving a Force TA car.

Full Results from the Spring Championship Hillclimb can be found here:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_efdd937df29846e89bdb0680da12137d.pdf

Summer Championship Hillclimb

On Sunday the Summer Championship Hillclimb had a total start entry of 105 cars and 21 motorbikes, including five sidecar entries.

Also joining in on the track side action were a large group of competitors from the road and race classes of the Paul Matty Lotus Championship.

Sunday morning was overcast and with a much stronger wind, than yesterday, keeping the temperatures down both on and off the track.

Competition got underway with the first practice run, which was completed in about 50 minutes. Second Practice run was completed in about an hour and a quarter. So, the competitors got in a timed run before the lunch break.

A second timed run was fully completed after the lunch break. It was during the third timed run that a competitor left a large amount of oil on the track leading into The Esses all the way up to Farmhouse, covering nearly half of the track.

The Harewood Orange Army (Marshals) did spend a fair amount of time dressing the oil and a couple of cars did go up the hill but a tuff decision, was made to abandon the meeting on safety grounds, by the Clerk of the Course and officials.

The fastest bike up the Yorkshire hill was set by Paul Jarrett ridding a KTM bike and the fastest sidecar was Aaron Hall and Garth Rawlings riding a Poole Trike.

In the Harewood Championship Adam Riley driving the VW UP still leads the Championship from Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec and Henry Moorhouse driving the Honda powered Westfield in third place.

The Fast Time of the Day was again set by Mark Hemingway driving a Force TA.

After the Summer Championship Hillclimb David Tatham driving the McLaren M12C leads the Harewood FTD Award Series from Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec in second place with Dave Banner driving the Westfield Megabusa now moving up to third place.

Full Results from the Summer Championship Hillclimb can be found here:
https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_356362555a544a51b1daaaf04c24629a.pdf

Harewood Championship Standings:
https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_34ea4862102a46eb9cf119dba65e85df.pdf

Harewood FTD Award Series:
https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_3eb0b13a19554c17bc7819f7988b3d9d.pdf

Many thanks to BARC Yorkshire centre for the opportunity to be track side. Also not forgetting all the Marshals, Medical and the Extractor Rescue team, along with all the back office staff without which the events at Harewood Hill could not take place.

The final two rounds of the 2024 Harewood Hillclimb Championship is over the weekend of the 21st and 22nd September for the Greenwood Cup and Mike Wilson Hillclimb.

JCB Photography was at Harewood Hill over the weekend of 3rd and 4th August for the Yorkshire Speed and Montague Burton Hillclimb along with competitors of the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship, who were finally back on the famous Yorkshire Hill. Most of the regular competitors had not been at Harewood since early June.

This means that this month and next month will see six rounds of the Harewood Championship taking place in the next eight weekends. All are double headers, one round on each of the days.

Yorkshire Speed Hillclimb

Joining the Harewood regulars were a large group of competitors from the Northampton Motorsport Caterham and Lotus 7 Club Speed Championship.

With just the two practice runs completed before the lunch break followed by three timed runs in the afternoon.

Saturday’s weather turned out to be the better of the two days with sunny intervals and also the better of the track conditions. With three new class records being set.

Full Results from the Yorkshire Speed Hillclimb can be found here:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_1d5820c366c541f0817bf02bd1f2b924.pdf

Montague Burton Hillclimb

With some drizzle to start the first practice run, making the track very greasy for the first of the Sunday morning competitors. The grey clouds would stay with us for the rest of the day, however it did stay dry and was a little chilly for August with a slight breeze. This breeze would keep temperatures down both on and off the track. One class record was broken, 1C for Road Cars Production over 2000cc and 2 wheel drive, by Richard Andrews driving the Porsche 718 GT4.

A timed run as well as the two Practice runs were completed before a late lunch break with two further timed runs before the end of the meeting.

In the Harewood Championship Adam Riley still leads the Championship from Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec with Henry Moorhouse driving the Honda powered Westfield in third place.

The Fast Time of the Day was again set by David Tatham driving the DJ Firehawk with Stephen Owen driving his OMS 28, and Jake Bellerby in third, driving his OMS 2000M.

After the Montague Burton Hillclimb David Tatham driving the DJ Firehawk, now leads the Harewood FTD Award Series from Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec in joint second place with Stephen Owen driving his OMS 28 and Dave Banner driving the Westfield Megabusa.

Full Results from the Montague Burton Hillclimb can be found here:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_52e961bb95de4eaca802b0fc6f5814e5.pdf

Harewood Championship Standings:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_ae572ef3bab945eeb17e947a0408ae04.pdf

Harewood FTD Award Series:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_4022470ac92c4f84abe44c6fe8f0d3f8.pdf

Many thanks to BARC Yorkshire centre for the opportunity to be track side. Also not forgetting all the Marshals, Medical and the Darlington and District Rescue team, along with all the back office staff without which the events at Harewood Hill could not take place.

Junior Euan Bruce, 14 years old, takes to the longest Hillclimb in the UK. Euan was competing in a MG ZR over the weekend of 6th and 7th July at Harewood Hill, along with the cream of the British Hillclimb Championship contenders.

The junior series has been set-up to encourage new young blood to get involved in Motorsport at Sprints and Hillclimb level. Juniors have to first complete three Sprint events before they can move onto the hillclimb's. The junior competitor must be on track by him or herself.

The car has to be a standard production car with a maximum of 110bhp, Post 2000 year, with a minimum of 5000 cars produced in standard spec and on road tyres. Only safety modifications i.e. roll cage, harness and seat.

He shares the car with his dad John, who is an ex-Scottish Hillclimb Road car Champion. John had competed at Harewood 30 or so years ago. Euan and John along with his mum Julia form the Bruce Racing Team. Euan had been involved with servicing and maintenance of the car including rebuilding of the 1400cc engine after a failure at Kames earlier in the 2024 season.

For 2024 he is competing in the Scottish Sprint and Hillclimb Championship. Euan Bruce was the first junior and youngest ever driver at a British Hillclimb Championship event in England. Both he and his dad John are looking forward to coming back again next year to Harewood Speed Hillclimb.

To find out more information about becoming a young racer in UK motorsport head over to the Motorsport UK website where all of the information you will need to start racing can be found.

To see my photo report on the PistonClick website:

https://www.pistonclick.com/euan-bruce

Many thanks to Julia Bruce for all the background information.

JCB Photography joined Competitors from The British Hillclimb Championship’s return to Harewood Hill for rounds 13 and 14 of the British Hillclimb Championship.

The event was not a round of the Harewood Hillclimb Championship, but a number of regulars did take part against the cream of the British Hillclimb Championship contenders, making the event a full entry of 150 competitors.

Also joining in this weekend would be competitors from the Porsche Club Speed Championship for two rounds of its championship.

Two Practices runs and up to three timed runs were completed on the Saturday for the Inter-club classes. Along with two Practice runs for the BHC competitors and a couple of timed runs. However, these timed runs did not count for any points in the Championship. It was during the timed run after lunch that it started raining, though it was nothing like the rain that was forecast for Sunday. We can all hope that the forecast and weather apps are wrong.

Sunday

Alex Summers driving the DJ Firestorm comes to Harewood leading the Championship by 16 points from Will Hall and Matt Ryder. The weather or rather the rain, would have a very large impact on the event, which it seems to have managed at some of the other rounds of the British Hillclimb Championship (BHC) in 2024 as well. With a number of downpours throughout the day.

After one of the downpours, which was so heavy it resulted in standing water at Willow corner. Once this was cleared by the Marshals and inspected by the Clerk of the Course. The track was still wet but no standing water. The next issue was that a number of single seaters, who had left the paddock when it was nice and dry were now waiting on the start line area all on slick tyres. These drivers were given the all clear to very carefully drive back up to the paddock area to change onto wets.

The fastest twelve would have a run-off for British Hillclimb Championship points, though only the top ten would be awarded points from ten down to one point for tenth place. This would then be repeated for the next round of the Championship.

When the run-off for BHC points takes place, only one car is on the track at a time, once the competitor has past the finish line, will post twenty, located after the finish and reports on the radio that the car has cleared the finish and is in the paddock, will the time keepers set the timing for the next competitor and the start line marshals signal to the driver to watch for the green light.

After the Practice runs and the first of the timed runs for all competitors. The all important run-offs for Round 13 of the BHC and Round 1 of the Tin Top Ten Challenge were completed.

Top 3 in the First Run-Off Round 13.

1st Matthew Ryder driving a Gould GR59J

2nd Wallace Menzies driving a Gould GR59

3rd Will Hall driving a Gould GR59 Judd

David Tatham driving his DJ Firehawk Car# 108 was the only one of the Harewood regulars competing to make it into both run-offs. Though Ben Hamer driving a OMS28 Car #803 also managed to get into the first run-off.

Then after a very late lunch break, the second of the time runs were completed with another downpour during this timed run. The all important second run-offs were completed on a wet to damp and drying track. Which was when the three fastest times of the day were set, some 4 seconds off the hill record set by Matthew Ryder.

Top 3 in the Second Run-Off Round 14.

1st Matthew Ryder driving a Gould GR59J

2nd Alex Summers driving a DJ Firestorm

3rd Jack Cottrill driving a Dallara

Alex Summers still leads the BHC leaving Harewood, with Matthew Ryder moving up to second after his two wins this weekend. While Will Hall drops to third place and Trevor Willis is still in fourth place, now 22 points behind Will.

The next rounds of the 2024 British Hillclimb Championship is due to take place at Bouley Bay, Jersey on Wednesday 17th July followed by Val Des Terres, Guernsey on 20th July. Both these events are organised by The Jersey Motorcycle and Light Car Club.

Tin Top Ten Challenge.

This weekend was also the opening round of the British Hillclimb Championship (BHC) Tin Top-Top Ten Challenge. This Challenge has been expanded to ten rounds for the 2024 season. Reigning 2023 BHC Tin Top Challenge Champion, Damien Bradley along with runner up Steve Darley, who shares the Subaru Legacy with Damien. Former BHC Champion Roger Moran was driving his Skoda Fabia R5 also in a Skoda Fabia R5 was Eynon Price. Eynon a former BHC single seater driver and rally driver was taking part for the first time in the Tin Top Challenge.

The fastest ten would have a run-off for Championship points, from ten down to one point for tenth place. This was then repeated after the second timed runs for round two of the Championship.

Top 3 of the Tintop Challenge. Round 1:

1st Roger Moran driving a Skoda Fabia R5

2nd Damien Bradley driving a Subaru Legacy GL

3rd Eynon Price driving a Skoda Fabia R5

Full Results of the Top 10 Tintop Challenge Round 1:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_addb00e7e19342b983528ba848448e46.pdf

Top 3 of the Tintop Challenge. Round 2:

1st Simon Bainbridge driving a Crono V8

2nd Damien Bradley driving a Subaru Legacy GL

3rd Steven Darley driving a Subaru Legacy GL

Full Results of the Top 10 Tintop Challenge Round 2:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_bd4e146b656b4682b72324665bde7824.pdf

Damien Bradley leads the Tin Top Ten Challenge after taking two 2nd places in the run-offs. His co-driver Steven Darley also qualified for the first of the BHC top 12 run-off for Round 13 and also scored points in that championship.

Full timings and Results for Sunday:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_9596211d632c4a88813e922b2d703a3f.pdf

The next month is very busy for the competitors of the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship with the Yorkshire Speed Hillclimb on Saturday 3rd August then on the Sunday, the Montague Burton. Followed just three weeks later by the rescheduled, from 14th April, the Spring National event on Saturday 24th August and then the Summer Championship on the Sunday.

Many thanks to BARC Yorkshire centre for the opportunity to be track side. Also not forgetting all the Marshals, Medical and the Darlington and District Rescue team, along with all the back office staff without which the events at Harewood Hill could not take place.

The BARC Yorkshire Centre organised over the weekend of 8th and 9th June 2024, two every different days of action on the famous Yorkshire hill, located on the edge of Yorkshire’s beautiful Wharfedale valley.

With cars competing from the very start of motoring on the Saturday and on the Sunday much more modern-day cars. Both days would have a full entry list, though a handful of cars did not make the start.

Joining the VSCC were a number of competitors from the Morgan Sports Car Club, Austin Healey Cars, Classic Marques Speed Challenge and a number of Harewood regulars, who’s cars fitted in any of the Classic classes for early 70’s Saloon, Sports and Racing cars.

With only the two Practice runs completed before the lunch break and two-timed runs in the afternoon.

A number of new Class Records were set including William Marsh driving an Austin 7 Ulster, car #85 in Class V1 for Standard and Modified Sports and Saloon Cars up to 750cc.

Nigel Dowding driving a Riley Brooklands, car #96 set a new class record for Class V2, Standard and Modified Sports and Saloon Cars 751 to 1100cc un-supercharged and up to 750cc supercharged.

Jonathan Giles driving a Morgan GN ‘Salome’, car#169, set a new class record for Class V13, Pre 1941 Racing Cars up to 1100cc.

The fastest Vintage car up the hill was Michael James driving a Riley 12/4 Cotton Special, car #146.

The fastest Classic car was Harewood regular David Tatham driving a McLaren M12C. David also broke the Class Record in C21 for Classic Racing and Sports Racing cars built up to and including 1975. The record was set all the way back to 8th June 2008.

Full Results from the Classic and Vintage Hillclimb can be found here:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_61f943d58fc947f2ab1e710908a80b58.pdf

Fast Time of the Day and Top 4 in Class:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_0343b73d56b04ca5bb83b06c16533d7a.pdf

The next main competitive event, for the VSCC competitors is the Seaman Trophy Race meeting at Cadwell Park Circuit in Lincolnshire.

Jim Thomson Hillclimb

On Sunday the Jim Thomson Hillclimb took to the hill, which is Round Two of the 2024 Harewood Championship.

Joining the Harewood regulars where competitors from the Morgan Sports Car Club, Austin Healey Cars, Aston Martin Owners Club Speed Series and Classic Marques Speed Challenge.

Adam Riley driving the VW UP, car #97 currently leads the Harewood Championship from Henry Moorhouse driving his Honda powered Westfield, car #142 and Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec is third place, car #176. Adam set a new class record in only his second meeting in the new car, during his second timed run and then lowered the record again in his third timed run.

In the Fastest Time of the Day Championship (FTD) only David Tatham, who started in eighth place was at Harewood Hillclimb. All of the other competitors in the top ten, are regular competitors from the British Hillclimb Championship.

After the Jim Thomson event Stephen Owen driving his OMS 28, car #191 is now joint leader of the Harewood FTD Championship with Will Hall. Trevor Willis is joint third with Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec is third place, car #176. Will and Trevor are British Hillclimb Championship competitors.

The drivers that posted the fastest times of the day up the hill on Sunday Stephen Owen driving his OMS28 car#191, from Simon Green driving his Westfield Duratec, car #176 and Anthony Middleton driving his Westfield, car #174.

Full Results from the Jim Thomson Hillclimb can be found here:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_f03c63531135420792ae79d1ce1bc655.pdf

Harewood Championship Standings:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_7054488735ef4caeb383c7318fa6a5d6.pdf

FTD Championship Standings:

Many thanks to BARC Yorkshire centre for the opportunity to be track side. Also not forgetting all the Marshals, Medical and the Darlington and District Rescue team, along with all the back-office staff without which the events at Harewood Hill could not take place.

Next events at Harewood Hill will see the second visit of the 2024 season for British Hillclimb Championship over the weekend of 6th and 7th July.

The next meeting for the Harewood Hillclimb Championship is over the weekend of the 3rd and 4th August for the Yorkshire Speed and Montague Burton Hillclimb.