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