It’s all about a numbers game

One of the targets for any competitor in the British Hillclimb Championship is to ‘get a number’. Finish in the top 10 points this year and that’s the number your car will carry throughout next season.

At the top of the pecking order in

2023 will be Menzies,

Summers, Moran and Willis before rising star Matt Ryder slots firmly into the big league with number five. Dave Uren retains number six for a second season.

Despite ending his year with a highspeed off at Loton Park, Richard Spedding will carry number seven on his GWR Raptor as the best of the under twolitre cars, while Paul Haimes and David Warburton forged their smaller-engined Gould GR59s into eighth and ninth. Finally, Stuart Sugden did enough in a part-season, capped by a mighty third in a Prescott rain shower, to grab number 10 in his GWR.