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.