The British Hill Climb Championship (BHCC) is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain.

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has a rich history, for example, the hillclimb held at

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, in Worcestershire, England is the world's oldest continuously staged motorsport event still staged on its original course, having been first run in 1905. The British Hill Climb Championship was held every year from 1947 to 2019, and resumed in 2021. The 2020 season was cancelled due to the

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pandemic. All British Champions have been

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. The most successful driver in terms of individual victories is

Scott Moran Scott Moran (born 1976 ) is a British hillclimb driver, based in Ludlow, Shropshire. Scott Moran has won the British Hill Climb Championship six times (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016) driving the Gould GR61X he shares with his father, ...

, with 163, followed by

Martin Groves Martin Groves is a British hillclimb driver, who won the British Hill Climb Championship in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010. With older cars he had won five rounds of the BHCC between 2001 and 2004, but in 2005 he was exceptionally quick in his new Gou ...

(104) and

Roy Lane Roy Lane (c. 1935 – 14 October 2009) was a British racing driver. He is best known for his great success in hillclimbing, having won the British Hillclimb Championship on four occasions (1975, 1976, 1992, and 1996) in a career spanning more th ...

(91). Moran and Tony Marsh jointly hold the record for the most championships, with six apiece.

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is the only driver to win four consecutive titles, while Marsh uniquely scored two hat-tricks in 1955-1957 and 1965–1967.

British Championship Hillclimb venues

The following tracks (listed in alphabetical order) are used in the BHCC. As mentioned below, each day's hillclimbing contains two rounds of the Championship.

Two-day events (used twice)

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Gurston Down The Gurston Down Speed Hill Climb is a Hillclimbing, hillclimb in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England, organised by the South Western Centre of the British Automobile Racing Club. The first practice meeting was held on 25 June 1967, when Patsy Burt ...

* Harewood *

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* Prescott *

Two-day events (used once)

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One-day events (used once)

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* Bouley Bay * Craigantlet * Val des Terres A number of other venues have featured in the championship over the years including

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, Great Auclum, Lhergy Frissel, Longleat, Pontypool Park, Rest and Be Thankful,

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, Tholt-y-Will and Westbrook Hay.

Format

A major hillclimb may have an entry of more than 150 drivers, but the event is usually a qualifying round of more than one competition, and some drivers (especially drivers of less powerful cars) will not be entered for the British Championship itself. Those who are, and who record a time in the top twelve of all those eligible, compete in a "run-off" at the end of each set of class run (there are two such sets of class runs at each event). In a run-off, drivers tackle the hill in reverse order of their qualifying times, although where two drivers share a car, the slower qualifier competes at the start of the run-off session. The person who sets the fastest time receives 10 British Championship points, the second-fastest driver nine, and so on down to the tenth-placed driver, who gets one. The 11th and 12th-placed drivers, and any who fail to complete the course, receive no points. An extra point is given to any driver in the run-off who breaks the outright hill record ''as it stood at the beginning of the day''. There are usually 34 such run-offs (i.e. 17 hillclimbs with two run-offs at each), but drivers can only count their 28 best results towards their final points total. In 2004,

Adam Fleetwood Adam Fleetwood is a British racing driver. He won the British Hillclimb Championship in both 2003 and 2004 driving a Gould GR55, and in the latter year won an unprecedented 28 of the 34 rounds of the series. In the process he broke all but one ou ...

achieved the unprecedented feat of winning 28 rounds, and so had to drop all his non-win points. Even so, he won the championship by a huge margin: before taking account of his dropped scores, he had racked up 318 points, with the runner-up, 1997 champion

Roger Moran Roger Moran is a British hillclimb driver, who won the British Hillclimb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship (BHCC) is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich hi ...

, a long way behind on 176 points.

History

The early days

The first climb of the inaugural series was staged at

, near

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on 17 May 1947. It was one of five events in that year's championship, the other climbs being held at Bouley Bay, Craigantlet, Prescott and Shelsley Walsh. All but Bo'ness still host rounds of the BHCC. The inaugural championship, as well as the 1948 title, went to

Raymond Mays Thomas Raymond Mays (1 August 1899 – 6 January 1980) was an auto racing driver and entrepreneur from Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. He attended Oundle School, where he met Amherst Villiers, leaving at the end of 1917. After army service in ...

, who proved he was still the force to be reckoned with that he had been before

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Sydney Allard Sydney Herbert Allard (19 June 1910 – 12 April 1966) was the founder of the Allard car company and a successful rally driver and hillclimb driver in cars of his own manufacture. Trials, hillclimbs, rallies, and road racing Born in London, E ...

won the title in 1949 in the self-built Steyr-Allard.

The 1950s

Although the 1950 championship went to

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driver

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, from then on every title of the decade was to be won by a driver who had spent most or all of the year behind the wheel of a

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with a

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engine.

started the trend, and became the only man to win four successive BHCC titles. In the mid-Fifties there were three successive titles for the near-legendary Tony Marsh, a man who would still be competing at the highest level of hillclimbing as the 20th century closed. And finally, another

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of championships went to

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. The decade was also touched by tragedy, when Bill Sleeman was killed at Bouley Bay,

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in 1955. The final round of the decade was held at

on 11 October 1959, an event won by David Good in a Cooper-J.A.P. 1,100 c.c.

The 1960s

Although the 1960s opened as the Fifties had ended, with Boshier-Jones taking the honours in his Cooper-JAP, the decade was to see a marked change in hillclimbing. One notable feature of 1960s climbing was the appearance of

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, with several of the decade's championships being won by drivers in such cars, including two for

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. Mike Gray became the second driver to be killed at a BHCC round when he died at Barbon in 1964.

The 1970s

The Seventies saw two notable firsts:

's maiden championship in 1975, and the first of 18 titles in the space of 22 years for Pilbeam drivers when Alister Douglas-Osborn took the honours in 1977.

The 1980s

This decade also saw the first championship to be won by a

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driver, when Chris Cramer took the title in 1985. However, it was to be the late 1990s before the Pilbeam near-stranglehold on the BHCC would be broken for any length of time.

The 1990s

The 1990s continued and even intensified Pilbeam's dominance of the sport, with the first eight championships of the decade being won by a driver in one of the marque's cars. By the time

clinched the title in 1997, Pilbeam drivers had won 18 of the 22 championships since 1977, a dominance rivalled only by the

years of the 1950s and early 1960s. However, change was afoot, and the 1998 championship went to a Gould driver,

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. The future

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stamped his authority on the championship with a hat-trick of titles as the 20th century closed. As of 2004, every champion since had been behind the wheel of a Gould. The hillclimb world was shocked in 1995 by the death of one of its leading lights, when

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was killed in practice at Craigantlet. He thus became only the third driver to lose his life in the history of the BHCC.

A new century

The start of the 21st century saw a "changing of the guard" in the BHCC, as young drivers in lightweight cars made their presence felt at the highest level.

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dominated in 2001, and in June he broke the outright record at

that had stood for nine years. Almost a year later he became the first driver to break the 25-second barrier at the track, winning a prize of £1,000. The 2001 season was severely disrupted by the foot and mouth crisis that year, which caused the postponement of some rounds of the series, though only one climb - at Barbon - was actually cancelled entirely, and co-operation between event organisers and local landowners meant that spectators continued to be admitted to the meetings, albeit with precautions such as the disinfecting of cars entering the car parks. A little later in the decade, once

had proved that he could translate his exploits in smaller cars to the top class, Wight Jr began to come under intense pressure, and by 2004 Fleetwood usually had the better of their battles. That season's championship was robbed of a classic battle for the title when Wight Jr pulled out in June to wait for the arrival of a new car - this had still not been driven in anger by the end of the year. However, crowds around the country could console themselves by watching a true master of the hills at work. Fleetwood won all but six of the year's 34 BHCC rounds, breaking hill records for fun - and in turn became the first person to climb Shelsley in under ''24'' seconds. Fleetwood's announcement in April 2005 that other commitments would prevent his defending his title meant once again that the two most successful drivers of the 2000s would not go head-to-head, and the stage seemed set for Wight Jr to regain his crown, although his new V10 Predator proved unreliable, allowing the impressive

to open up a lead at the top of the points table; Groves had the championship wrapped up by early August. With Wight Jr still nowhere to be seen, Groves retained the title in 2006, although he had to wait a month longer than in the previous year thanks to a spirited challenge from

. Groves again held off Moran's charge in 2007 to complete a hat-trick of titles, but in 2008 Moran took his first championship win, retaining his title in 2009. Moran has since won a further five titles, and his Gould GR61X (by far the most successful car in the history of the championship, with over 170 run-off wins) has won a total of seven. After several seasons in a supercharged

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-engined DJ Firehawk, Alex Summers co-drove the GR61X with Moran and became champion in it at his first attempt.

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developed a new tyre for British hillclimbing in 2019, giving Avon its first rival in the 21st century. (Avon responded by introducing its new Hillclimb GT Super Soft Compound tyre on 4 June 2020.) Several drivers made the switch, including that year's Champion Wallace Menzies. Driving a Gould GR59 with a 3.3-litre V8 engine derived from the

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XD, Menzies made it mathematically impossible for anyone to catch him after Round 27 (of 34) at

on 25 August 2019. He became only the second Scottish driver to win the title after Graeme Wight Jr. Since 1998, the only non-Gould driver to win the championship has been Trevor Willis, who did so in 2012 with his OMS 25, a less powerful but lighter car with a V8 engine derived from two Hayabusa units, and again in 2017 and 2018 with a similar but updated OMS 28.

2020 cancellation

Restrictions brought into force during the

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made it impossible to run events in the early part of 2020. Attempts were then made to organise a 'foreshortened' championship with rounds at five venues held over seven weekends starting in August. On 12 June, however, the Bugatti Owners' Club announced that, while it intended to reintroduce events at Prescott, it would not host a British championship event that season. This prompted the cancellation of the 2020 championship and an announcement that the organisers would now focus on the 2021 season.

2021 season

The 2021 British Hillclimb Championship presented by

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was won by 2019 (and reigning) Champion Wallace Menzies.

Champions

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Footnotes

External links

Uphill Racers
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