Harewood speed Hillclimb - the home of motorsport and motor racing in Yorkshire and the North of England
BARC Harewood Motor Racing hill climb - the UK's longest motor racing hill climb
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You should find all the information you need about Harewood speed Hillclimb on this website,
pages are being added and modified regularly so please check back regularly and let us know what you think.
On 13 August 2009 there is a special Ladies Driving School day at Harewood where all proceeds will go to Marie Curie Cancer Care.
All parties are giving their services free to ensure that all income will go to Marie Curie.
Click here for full details
The Harewood Marketing Team is looking for videos to use as part of the publicity for 2008.
Do you have any videos that we could use? These may be in-car, action on the track, paddock activity, start/finish, incidents, spectators, in fact anything that gives an interesting image of what we do.
We are looking to select ‘footage’ from a variety of Harewood meetings to compile a calendar of events for 2008 to inform people and whet their appetite to visit us.
If you have any video clips please contact Dale as soon as possible - email Dale
We have some video clips on the website (see here), but would like other footage, particularly in high resolution.
Scott Moran powering over the finish line at Harewood to set a new hill record of 49.19 seconds on July 2nd 2006 - a record which still stands.
Photograph © www.whatnonegatives.com
BARC Yorkshire Centre - Harewood speed Hillclimb organise 9 hillclimb events based at Stockton Farm, Harewood, Leeds each year, but in 2007 this has been increased to 10 events due to a special Classic and Vintage Hillclimb on 2 June to celebrate 45 years of motor racing at Harewood.
In addition, we organise driving school days - see the links above for full details.
Harewood has been used as a hillclimb since 1962 when the track started at the lower part of the course just after Chippy's corner (see map). The surface then was tar and chippings. The fastest time set for this short course was just over 51 seconds (see records page). Then in mid 1963 the track was upgraded to a tarmacadam surface. In 1992 the track was extended back from Chippy's to the new start, making it the longest permanent hillclimb course on the UK mainland.
Please click on the links above to see the latest news about Harewood
For an event weather forecast have a look here
Willem Toet was the first person to complete the hillclimb course in under 50 seconds
Photo © Full Frame Photographic
In 2007 the Harewood speed Hillclimb Championship is sponsored by:
Official timed runs start at approximately 12.30pm.