JCB Photography was at Harewood Hill over the weekend of 2nd and 3rd August 2025 for the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship. This time it was the Yorkshire Speed Hillclimb on the Saturday and Montague Burton Hillclimb on the Sunday. Joining the Harewood Championship competitors were a large group of Caterham competitors taking part in the Northampton Motorsport Caterham and Lotus 7 Club Speed Championship and Round 5 of the FASSI Classic Championship.

2024 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Champion, Adam Riley beat his own class record in 1A for Series Production Road Cars up to and including 1400cc.

In Class 1 D for Series Production Road Cars over 2000cc and 4 wheel drive, James Hudson driving his Subura Impreza. This class record had stood since September 2018 and was previously set by Jonathan Mounsey driving a Mitsubishi Evo 6.

In Class 2A Road Cars, Specialist Production Kit, Replica and Space-framed cars up to and including 1700cc. Henry Moorhouse driving his Honda power Westfield, also beat his own class record.

Adam Riley driving his VW Up is still leading the 2025 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship. Second is Henry Moorhouse driving his Honda powered Westfield and third is Mark Teale driving his Suzuki Swift

In the FTD Award Series Mark Hemingway driving his Force TA leads from Dave Tatham driving his DJ Firehawk in second place and John Prickett driving his Radical RP6 is in third place.

The next event at Harewood Hill will be Summer Championship Hillclimb event on 24th August 2025 when not only will it be Harewood competitors in four wheels but two and three wheels, with the motorcycles and sidecars.

JCB Photography was at Harewood Hill over the weekend of the 5th and 6th July for the second visit of the 2025 season, British Hillclimb Championship competitors visit to the famous Yorkshire hill. Organised by the Yorkshire Centre of the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC).

This would be rounds fifteen and sixteen of a 30 round British Hillclimb Championship (BHC). Since leaving Harewood back in May the Championship has visited Gurston Down, Shelsley Walsh and Doune.

Matt Ryder driving a Gould GR59J still leads the Championship from Wallace Menzies driving a Gould GR59-M, with Will Hall in third place also driving a Gould GR59J.

Joining the BHC competitors would be a large group of Porsche cars from the Porsche Club GB, taking part in the Porsche Club Speed Championship. (Saturday only)

Also joining in the competition would be competitors from the BARC Inter club and BARC Connaught classes and on both days was both practice and timed runs.

​However for BHC entrants it was practice on Saturday and practice, competitive runs and championship run offs on Sunday.

The next BHC event takes place at Bouley Bay in Jersey on 15th July.

The next event at Harewood Hill will be back to the Harewood Championship over the weekend of 2nd and 3rd August for the Yorkshire Speed Hillclimb and Montague Burton Hillclimb.

The British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) Yorkshire Centre organised two very different events over the weekend of the 7th and 8th June 2025. This weekend would see the largest difference in classes of cars from the dawn of motoring on the Saturday right through to the modern hot hatches of today, on the Sunday.

The first was for the Vintage Sports-Car Club (VSCC), founded in 1934 for owners and competitors to enjoy pre-war cars both competitively and socially. The club is active in most forms of motoring and motorsport for these pre-war cars. With events such as Racing, Sprints, Road Rallies, Trails, driving tests and the event on Saturday a hillclimb at Harewood Hill. Also joining members of the VSCC on the Saturday, included the following invited clubs Austin Healey Club, Classic Marques Sports Car Club.

Saturday was cloudy and we had a couple of heavy showers but still managed to get in both practice runs and a timed run before the lunch break. The track conditions in the afternoon improved.

A couple of Class records were set during the meeting.

In Class V1 for Standard and Modified Sports Cars and Saloons, up to 750cc non supercharged. This record had stood since 4th June 2011 and was set by William Marsh driving an Austin 7 Ulster.

Class V11 for Special Sports Cars and Saloon Cars over 3000cc non supercharged and over 2250cc supercharged. Again this record had stood since 4th June 2011 and was set by Wilfred Cawley driving a GN Ford Piglet.

Class C19 for Classic Saloon Cars built up to and including 1972. This record had stood since 1st June 2019 and was set by Paul Bewsher driving a Mini Mk3.

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

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_dff807c36cde4d289c5f1b628d4280dc.pdf

Fast Time of the Day (FTD) and Top 4 in Class:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_efaeb68423b541448a0eb1da5878b972.pdf

Jim Thomson Hillclimb took part on Sunday this event was part of the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship along with competitors from the Aston Martin Owners Club joining in with the Morgan Sports Car Club and again competitors from the Austin Healey Club and Classic Marques Sports Car Club.

Sunday was very windy with a couple of showers but the track did dry out.

Only the two practice runs were completed before the lunch break, after a number of red flags due to a number of competitors getting a wheel or two onto the grass. This included the VW UP of Harewood Championship leader Adam Riley. Adam shares the car with Doug Mitchell. It was Doug who was driving, during his third timed run he went on to the grass, hit the tyres and Armco coming out of Farmhouse bend. He was assisted by the Marshals and Adam didn’t take his third timed run but still manages to hold onto the Championship lead.

Henry Moorhouse driving his Honda powered Westfield, went straight on going into the Esse’s and onto the large grass area during his first timed run but still manages to hold on to second.

Meanwhile James Hudson driving his Subaru Impreza now moves up to third place, with less than half a point separating him and Mark Teale driving a Suzuki Swift in fourth place.

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

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_ec74a37c0fff4138bbf633bc5fa48a36.pdf

Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship Standings:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_bfd1131f6b994cb3847c0502ddda87bd.pdf

In the Fastest Time of the Day (FTD) was taken by Mark Hemingway driving a Force TA, with John Prickett driving his Radical PR6 taking second and Stephen Owen driving a Westfield 7 taking 3rd.

Wallace Menzies still leads the FTD Award Series with John Prickett in second and Matt Ryder in joint third place with Mark Hemingway.

Harewood FTD Award Series:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_6b4f6dc66e52442d8439b5e0feedbe5e.pdf

Joining the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship competitors would be members from the Ferrari Owners Club taking part in the Ferrari Hillclimb Championship for rounds four and five. Also joining the Harewood regulars were some of the competitors from the British Hillclimb Championship, who would be using the event as extra practice for Sunday's championship event. Saturday’s event had 150 competitors ready to take to the track at the nine o’clock start time under some nice sunshine, which lasted all day.

The day just didn’t seem to flow due to a number of incidents that kept the poor marshals and recovery crews busy including a car which had an issue and left oil on the track. This made for some interesting photos when the cars restarted after the red flag. Therefore, only the practice runs were completed before the lunch break followed by two timed runs in the afternoon.

Another new class record was set in class 1A by 2024 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Champion Adam Riley. Adam still leads the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship.

Second in the 2025 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship is now Henry Moorhouse driving his Honda powered Westfield. Wallace Menzies in his Gould GR59 is now third but will be concentrating on the British Hillclimb Championship and James Hudson driving the Subaru Impreza drops down to fourth.

The Fastest Time of the Day (FTD) was set by Wallace Menzies in his Gould GR59

Full Results from the Harewood Open Championship Hillclimb can be found here:
https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_867ca23044c84bd1b323f91852eb592d.pdf

Harewood Championship Standings: https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_db2e6e4acc864fd4a142c946216ac147.pdf

Harewood FTD Award Series: https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_e468797271314fb4ba1f62020724fd1a.pdf

Sunday British Hillclimb Championship.

Website for the British Hillclimb Championship:

https://www.britishhillclimb.co.uk/

The championship is organised and run by the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) of which the Yorkshire Centre runs the Harewood Hillclimb Championship at Harewood Hill, along with four rounds of the British Hillclimb Championship in 2025.

Matt Ryder returned to Harewood Hill and will again be driving the Judd engined Gould GR59, that he shares with chassis constructor Sean Gould in 2025.

Matt came to Harewood Hill with a three point lead over Will and Wallace who were in joint second position going into these next two rounds at Harewood Hill.

The Championship will return to Harewood Hill on 5th and 6th July.

Sunday morning again was nice and sunny, so conditions looked right for the possibility of the hill record to fall as the competition had been very close at the earlier rounds.

After the two timed runs the top twelve competitors would be timed against the clock for championship points, though only the top ten would be awarded points from 10 down to one point for tenth.

Round Five

1st Wallace Menzies Gould GR59

2nd Matt Ryder Gould GR59J

3rd Sean Gould GR59J

Round Six

1st Matt Ryder Gould GR59J

2nd Wallace Menzies Gould GR59

3rd Trevor Willis OMS 28

Though Wallace Menzies set the overall Fastest Time of the Day (FTD) on Sunday it is Matt Ryder that leaves Harewood Hill with a three point championship lead over Wallace Menzies, with Will Hall still managing to hold on to third, though now twelve points down Trevor Willis is in fourth.

FTD and Top 4 Classes https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_8b91c34f15e443a380c919d23dc06d07.pdf

Full Results from the British Hillclimb Championship can be found here: https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_3cb95d4eb4734b7fa14c934873daf36b.pdf

British Hillclimb Championship Standings after Harewood can be found here: https://www.britishhillclimb.co.uk/_files/ugd/e0b92f_53f08d59188d4e589726db95c46739e0.pdf

The Championship now visits Gurston Down on 24th and 25th May, Shelsley Walsh on 7th and 8th June, then crosses over the Scottish border to Doune before returning to Harewood Hill over the weekend of 5th and 6th July.

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 next event at Harewood Hill takes place over the weekend of 7th and 8th June. Saturday is part of the Harewood Championship, with the Jim Thomson Hillclimb and the Vintage and Classic Car Club Hillclimb meeting follows on the Sunday.

JCB Photography was at Harewood Hill on Sunday 13th April 2025 for the BARC Yorkshire Centre’s Spring Championship Hillclimb meeting.

Joining the Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship competitors would be members from the MG Car Club, Jaguar Drivers Club and a number of drivers from the British Hillclimb Championship.

The morning started off nice and sunny but with a cool breeze, though the cloud would roll in along with a strengthening wind, which would keep the track temperatures down, especially for the third timed runs.

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

With a new class record set by 2024 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Champion Adam Riley in class 1A.

Second in the 2025 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship is Richard Andrews driving the Porsche 718 GT4 and James Hudson driving the Subaru Impreza is in third.

The Fast Time of the Day (FTD was set by Wallace Menzies in his Gould GR59. Harry Pick was second driving his OMS 28XD and third was Stephen Owen driving the works OMS 28RPE.

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

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_1c659d25e7a94a1eaa77617ac0cd0459.pdf

Harewood Championship Standings after Round 1:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_82bf229cc87e4ae69bf8ecc0f8c3a25e.pdf

FTD Awards Series:

https://www.harewoodhill.com/_files/ugd/882d72_764bb4c6c8b84bb8a6b364ef5ce3195d.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.

The next event at Harewood Hill takes place over the weekend of 10th and 11th May. Saturday is part of the Harewood Championship, with the Harewood Open meeting followed on the Sunday with the British Hillclimb Championship.

JCB Photography was again at Cadwell Park Circuit, this time for the single venue stage rally, the Alan Healy Memorial Rally on Sunday 6th April 2025.

The event is organized by the Border Motor Club and was round eight of the 2024/25 Protyre Circuit Rally Championship along with several other Stage Rally Championships including the Autoshop, MG3 Rally Challenge 2025.

Using the Cadwell Park Circuit and some of the access and service roads, with around 44 stages miles over nine Special Stages all within the confines of the Circuit but also using some of the access roads around the track.

With a real mix bag of competing clubman rally cars such as the Ford Fiesta, Ford Escort MkII’s, Nissan Micra’s, Mazda MX5, Mitsubishi Evo’s, Subaru Impreza’s and a variety of BMW's, and Peugeot's. With 97 entries, car number one Michael Igoe driving his Citroen C3 Rally 2 with Will Atkins sitting in the co-driver's seat took to the first special stage at 9 o’clock.

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 several 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.

Out of the 97 entries only 63 cars were classified as finishers, almost a third of the field did not see the finish. We did see two cars go off into the armco but managed to carry on, however two competitors did roll again in-front of the camera and many more had mechanical issues.

The winners of the 2025 Alan Healy Memorial Rally held at Cadwell Park Circuit were Michael Igoe and co-driver Will Atkins driving a Citroen C3 Rally 2. John Griffiths and co-driver Emma Morrison driving a Skoda Fabia R5, were 2nd and 3rd was Chris West and co-driver Keith Hounslow driving a Peugeot 306 Maxi Kit Car.

Full Results and stage times for the Alan Healy Memorial Rally can be found here:

https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/91782-alan-healy-memorial-rally-2025/

The final round of the 2024/25 Protyre Circuit Rally Championship will be the Altratech SMC Stages at Anglesey Circuit on Sunday 13th April.

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