Motorsport UK British Hillclimb Championship

The British Hillclimb championship is ready to tear-up hillclimb venues across the British Isles this season with a busy, packed calendar organised in conjunction with the British Automobile Racing Club.

The art of hillclimbing is very different to that of circuit racing. Rather than racing each other on track, drivers fight each other on the time sheets across picturesque and challenging hillclimb venues of about a mile or so in length.

Competitors only get a handful of practice runs before official timed runs – which provides and ranks the top 12 runners for a reverse order shootout from slowest to quickest. The top 12 run-offs are an exhilarating, nail biting affair with the order expected to get faster and faster – mounting the pressure on every driver for every run. One run, one shot and one small mistake could be the difference between coming home with a win and a hill record or just a handful of points. Hillclimbing at the top end can only be described as Formula One up a garden path.

2025 will welcome trips to England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands with the season starting in April at Prescott and ending at Loton Park in September.

The championship is also home to road going saloons, modified production, Sports Libre as well the state of the art – bristling with technology single-seaters form small bike engined powered machines to the over 2000cc category. The top 12 run-off is normally dominated by the large engined single seaters – but depending on the hill, weather and driver at the wheel – expect to see the odd smaller engined car sneaking into the run-off order.

All eyes will once again be on the top category in 2025. Watch out for names such as Matt Ryder, Wallace Menzies, Scott Moran,Trevor Willis and Alex Summers and many more in cars from Gould, OMS, DJ and AFS battling it out at the top of the timesheets – fighting for the converted number one on the car for the following year.

The 2025 season for the British Hillclimb Championship in partnership with the British Automobile Racing Club gets underway at Prescott in Gloucestershire on the weekend of the 26th/27th April.

Family, friends and motorsport fans will be able to watch some of season’s hillclimbing action on the Hillclimb.TV YouTube channel – with a comprehensive day of racing coverage planned from Shelseley Walsh and Prescott rounds at the very least.

2025 British Hillclimb Championship Calendar
Event 1 – 26th/27th April – Prescott
Event 2 – 3rd May – Craigantlet
Event 3 – 11th May – Harewood
Event 4 – 24th/25th May – Gurston Down
Event 5 – 7th/8th June – Shelsley Walsh
Event 6 – 21st/22nd June – Doune
Event 7 – 5th/6th July – Harewood
Event 8 – 15th July – Bouley Bay
Event 9 – 19th July – Val des Terres
Event 10 – 26th/27th July – Wiscombe Park
Event 11 – 9th/10th August – Shelsley Walsh
Event 12 – 6th/7th September – Prescott
Event 13 – 20th/21st September – Doune
Event 14 – 27/28 September – Loton Park