Harewood speed Hillclimb explained

Harewood
Time:	GMT
Location:	Harewood, Yorkshire, England
Opened:	1962
Events:	British Hill Climb Championship
Length Yds:	1,584
Record Time:	46.39
Record Driver:	Matthew Ryder
Record Year:	2022
Record Class:	British Hill Climb Championship

Harewood speed Hillclimb (the form with italics and a lower-case s is used officially) is a hillclimb near the village of Harewood, West Yorkshire, England. The track can be found on the A659 between Harewood village and Collingham, north of Leeds. In addition to national events, it hosts rounds of the British Hill Climb Championship, a Classic & Historic Hillclimb and an event that includes bikes. Around 11 meetings are organised between April and September each year by the British Automobile Racing Club Yorkshire Centre.

The first event on the track took place on 16 September 1962, and Best Time of the Day was set at 51.61s by Tony Lanfranchi driving an Elva Mk VI. This was on the original 'Short Course'. The first R.A.C. Hill Climb Championship event was held in September, 1964.^[1] In the mid 1990s the track was extended to 1,584 yards (1,448 m). As of 2023, the outright hill record holder was Matt Ryder, whose time of 46.39 seconds was set on 3 July 2022 in that day's 2nd Top 12 Runoff.

Harewood Hill Climb past winners

Year	Driver	Vehicle	Time	Notes
1963	Keith Schellenberg	Lister-Jaguar	49.79 sec	^[2] 21 April.
1964	I.C. Batty	Lotus 7-Ford	50.746 sec	^[3] 12 July. Novices Meeting.
	Peter Westbury	Ferguson-Climax 4-w-d	44.45 sec R	^[4] 13 Sep.
1965	Peter Meldrum	Lotus 22-Allard Dragon		^[5] 12 Sep.
1966	P.H. Meldrum	Lotus-Allard special	45.99 sec	^[6] 11 Sep.
1967	Round 12 : Tony Marsh	Marsh-Buick Special 4,200 c.c.	42.94 sec R	^[7] 10 Sep.
1972	R. Scott-Moncrieff	Kincraft-Chevrolet 5.0-litre	44.15 sec	^[8] 23 July. Novices Meeting.
1976	Roy Lane	McRae GM1-Chevrolet 5.0-litre	38.77 sec	^[9]
2006	Round 17 : Scott Moran	Gould-NME GR61 3.5-litre	49.19 sec R	^[10] 2 July.
	Round 18 : Martin Groves	Gould-NME GR55 3.5-litre	49.92 sec
2010	Round 3 : Scott Moran	Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre	49.31 sec FTD	^[11] 9 May.
	Round 4 : Martin Groves	Gould-NME GR55 3.5-litre	49.52 sec

Key: R = Course Record.

External links

• British Automobile Racing Club - Harewood Hill near Leeds

53.9049°N -1.4902°W

Notes and References

1. BARC Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 30 November 1964.
2. Autosport, 3 May 1963, Page 622.
3. Autosport, 24 July 1964, Page 158.
4. Motor Sport, October, 1964, Page 800; See also: Motor, 16 September 1967, Page 48.
5. BARC Report and Accounts for the Year Ended 30 November 1965.
6. Motor, 17 September 1966.
7. Motor, 16 September 1967, Page 48.
8. Autosport, 3 August 1972, Page 41.
9. Autosport, 5 August, Page 47.
10. Autosport, 6 July 2006, Page 107.
11. Autosport, 13 May 2010, Page 113.