The long-running British Hillclimb Championship can proudly boast to pre-date every other British motor sport title. It first ran back in 1947 and this year will be its 77th season, with only the 2020 Covid pandemic stopping an unbroken run. It started before British Formula 3, British Touring Cars and the British Rally Championship and remains as fiercely competitive as ever.
Remarkably, there are very few rules for top-flight hillclimbing where 420kg, 700bhp projectiles teeming with electronics create an incredible spectacle on the 10 hills visited during the British Hillclimb Championship.
Aside from some basic rules about the overall dimensions of the cars, there is little to hinder engineering ingenuity and driver talent. There are no pitstop penalties, no DRS, no success ballast and no driver grading. This is driver and machine against the clock in its purest form and the spectacle is amazing.
Standing firmly at the top of the hillclimbing tree are the over 2-litre singleseaters that usually set the pace in the British championship. However, that is just the tip of the iceberg for this branch of the sport and hillclimbing is truly a broad church with competition to suit all tastes and pockets. Beneath the over 2-litre cars are single-seater
