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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After a successful 2007 season BARC Yorkshire is pleased to announce that sponsorship for the 2008 Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship has been secured. Harrogate Audi, which is part of the Sytner Group (a member of the Penske Automotive Group), has agreed to be title sponsor for the 2008 Championship.
Harrogate Audi, which is based at St James Business Park in Knaresborough, will be contesting an Audi in the Championship throughout the year. It will also be displaying a selection of cars at some of the race events, which is likely to include the fabulous R8 supercar. Rob Scaife, Harrogate Audi’s Head of Business said “We are delighted to support Harewood Speed Hillclimb in 2008. This underlines Audi’s sporting heritage and our involvement in local organisations. We will be working with BARC Yorkshire to help increase awareness of Harewood Hillclimb and our business and using the race days to entertain our clients and staff. ”
BARC Yorkshire are also pleased to announce that the 2007 Championship sponsor, the Cubicle Centre, will continue to support motor sport at Harewood Hillclimb in 2008. Cubicle Centre will sponsor the two British Championship weekends in May and July when top competitors from throughout the British Isles converge on the Yorkshire race track.
This support is vital to the Club to help it maintain and develop the venue and to keep Harewood in the top league of British hill climbing.
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.
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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.