Event Report
Scott Moran won both rounds of the British Hillclimb Championship at Harewood on Sunday, ahead of the reigning champion Martin Groves, extending his championship lead to 13 points. Former British Champion Roger Moran, secured third spot in each round.
The first round of the championship was played out on a virtually dry track after earlier rain in the first qualifying session. Scott posted a 50.25 second run in his 3.5 litre Gould race car, almost a second ahead of Martin Groves’ similar car, with father Roger Moran just another 0.3 seconds adrift. Fast charging Trevor Willis took a superb fourth place in his 2.6 litre OMS, just pipping Basil Pitt’s Gould in to fifth spot by one hundredth of a second.
The second round of the championship saw the same drivers take the same top three places. This time both Scott Moran and Martin Groves made sub 50 second runs, with Scott showing his mastery of this challenging hill some 0.4 seconds clear of Groves with a 49.43 second run, just over two tenths off his own hill record.
Four class records were broken at the meeting. OMS driver, James Blackmore slashed over sixth tenths of a second off the up to 1600cc race car class record, which was enough to get him in the second British Championship run off amongst the much more powerful contenders and in to the top 10 fastest times of the day. Whilst it is not uncommon for the smaller bike engined cars to mix it with the larger machines in the wet, it was an astonishing achievement in the dry. Brodie Branch showed that not only could he drive a Caterham very fast, but that he had also made a very successful transition to single seaters. Brodie knocked four tenths of a second off the class record set in 2003, in his 999cc Force race car. Ed Hollier took just under three tenths of a second off the class record he set last year in his OMS sports car, lowering the up to 2 litre record to 54.35 seconds. The fourth record fell to Paul Haimes’ Dallara when he shaved three hundredths of a second off the up to 2 litre race car class record on his final run.
Fastest Times of the Day
1st Scott Moran, Gould GR61, 49.43
2nd Martin Groves, Gould GR55, 49.82
3rd Roger Moran, Gould GR61, 50.46
British Championship round 17
1st Scott Moran, Gould GR61, 50.25
2nd Martin Groves, Gould GR55, 51.16
3rd Roger Moran, Gould GR61, 51.49
British Championship round 18
1st Scott Moran, Gould GR61, 49.43
2nd Martin Groves, Gould GR55, 49.82
3rd Roger Moran, Gould GR61, 50.46
Class wins
Eric Morrey, Clan Crusader, 67.40
Michael Walsh, Mitsubishi EVO6, 66.23 (based on handicap)
Andrew Henson, Swift SC93, 62.19
Peter Herbert, Westfield SE, 60.28
Ben Johnson, Lotus 7, 61.89
Keith Edwards, Audi Quattro, 60.76
Ashley Ward, Mallock Mk20x, 58.58
Les Procter, OMS SC4CF, 58.75
Ed Hollier, OMS SC1, 54.34 ®
Adam Steel, Marlet DM8, 58.04
Brodie Branch, Force, 53.95 ®
James Blackmore, OMS CF04, 52.34 ®
Paul Haimes, Dallara F301, 52.56 ®
Martin Groves, Gould GR55, 50.30
® denotes new class record
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