Uphill Racers: The History of British Speed Hill Climbing

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The car has recently undergone re-build from the chassis up. The chassis has been re jigged & powder coated and fitted with a new floor pan and bulkhead. fitting a Peter Burgess gasflowed and polished cylinder head with bigger valves, and a Kent 719SP camshaft High Down force lightweight front wing (over 600g lighter than Carbon fibre alternatives), secondary planes adjustable.

It is fitted with Mistral 1400 Hyabusa engine with big valves last rebuilt mid 2015. It has an SBD ECU and loom with their latest dash display.Chassis number MP53 -04 was a double Hillclimb Championship winner with many FTD’s in the hands of Martyn Griffiths and Max Harvey. The Hart engine was subsequently developed and turbocharged in line with current F1 practice. The car continued to compete successfully in the hands of Martyn Griffiths, and in turbo form finished second overall in 1988 British Hillclimb Championship, narrowly missing out on an overall win. Tim Thompson then ran the car in 1989, finishing third overall in British Championship and winning the Harewood Championship. It had a complete refurbishment in 2018 with latest owner, new bodywork, and has run successfully in the Sports 2000 Championship. It is also eligible for the OSS and other Sports Car championships and could be used in Hillclimbs and Sprints as a Libre car. Fitted with a Richardson FVA which has competed in only two events since rebuild and fully race prepared to a very high standard. Ideal for the HSCC and Peter Auto F2 championships and the Derek Bell series, the Chevron would also be very competitive in Classic Hillclimbs.

This very successful and well developed Radical Prosport has an excellent specification and a current MSA vehicle passport.Built to highest standard by Tony Pashley in 1997 and as shown in his book on how to build motorcycle-engined single seaters (copy included!). Body designed by Williams GP Engineering. Carbon wings and body top. In excellent condition. Inspection essential! It is a “Shelsley Special”. Easy to drive but also successful. Complete with 5 spare ratios, running spares, MSA log-book and a detailed history file reflecting the significant sums spent on converting and maintaining this lovely example. Great value for money. New while in UK: Plugs, Weber air filters, rear brake shoes, clutch slave, rear hub seals, Aeroquip front and rear brake lines.

Midget/Sprite FR06 EYE, 1973 the well known Hillclimb & Sprint car “ Kermit “ WINNER of the HEALEYSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP in 2018. In Great Britain, the format is different from that in other parts of Europe, with courses being much shorter. Cairncastle is Great Britain's longest hillclimb at 1.65 miles (2904 yards). These short courses are more akin to uphill sprints – and almost always take under one minute for the fastest drivers to complete. For this reason, cars and drivers do not generally cross between the British and continental European championships. The most famous Italian drivers, who won a lot even in Europe, are Ludovico Scarfiotti (famous Ferrari driver who won the F1 race in Monza 1966), " Noris" (he won almost every race in Italy until 1972, when he died), Domenico Scola (who runs a Sport Prototype even now at the age of 80), Mauro Nesti (over 20 championships between Italy and Europe, from the 1970s to the 1990s), Ezio Baribbi (three times Italian champion), Fabio Danti (1994 Italian champion, 1995-96 European champion, died in 2000), Pasquale Irlando (Italian champion in the early 1990s and European champion in the last 1990s, the one who turned the Osella PA20), Franz Tschager (three times European champion in the early 2000s), Simone Faggioli (the real Italian champion of the 2000s) and Denny Zardo (Italian champion in 2005 and 2008, European champion in 2003) Plus lots of class wins and in 4 years of British Sprint Championship events, the car achieved over 30 “V8 kills”. V5 in my name car has been on SORN'd for a good while but I see no reason why you could not get an MOT for road use or a different hillclimb class.This superb Historic F2 has a fully documented history and is in immaculate race ready condition having been professionally prepared and run to numerous class wins in recent years.