Bouley Bay Hill Climb
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Bouley Bay is a speed Hill Climb venue in Trinity
, Jersey
, organised by The Jersey Motor Cycle and Light Car Club. The course on Les Charrières du Boulay was "first used for competition in 1921" and since 1947 has hosted a round (latterly two rounds) of the British Hill Climb Championship
. Bouley Bay and Val des Terres
hill climb in Guernsey
are normally held in July and provide a two-stop tour for UK drivers contesting the series.
Of the 1947 event Raymond Mays
said: "My E.R.A.'s time counted as a record because, although it was slower than the figure set the previous year by Bainbridge's 1½-litre E.R.A., the 1947 climb was run for the first time from a standing start."
The 2008 meeting included rounds 17 and 18 of the British Hill Climb Championship, both being won by Scott Moran
.
Key: R = Course Record; FTD = Fastest Time of the Day.
Trinity, Jersey
Trinity is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is in the north east of the island.Trinity has the reputation of being the most rural of Jersey's parishes, being the third-largest parish by surface area with the third-smallest population. The parish covers 6,817 vergées...
, Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
, organised by The Jersey Motor Cycle and Light Car Club. The course on Les Charrières du Boulay was "first used for competition in 1921" and since 1947 has hosted a round (latterly two rounds) of the British Hill Climb Championship
British Hill Climb Championship
The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British...
. Bouley Bay and Val des Terres
Val des Terres Hill Climb
The Val des Terres Hill Climb is a hillclimbing competition held in St Peter Port, Guernsey. The course is 850 yards in length. The track has hosted a round of the British Hill Climb Championship....
hill climb in Guernsey
Guernsey
Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...
are normally held in July and provide a two-stop tour for UK drivers contesting the series.
Of the 1947 event Raymond Mays
Raymond Mays
Thomas Raymond Mays CBE was an auto racing driver and entrepreneur from Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.He attended Oundle School, where he met Amherst Villiers, leaving at the end of 1917. After army service in the Grenadier Guards in France, he attended Christ's College, Cambridge...
said: "My E.R.A.'s time counted as a record because, although it was slower than the figure set the previous year by Bainbridge's 1½-litre E.R.A., the 1947 climb was run for the first time from a standing start."
The 2008 meeting included rounds 17 and 18 of the British Hill Climb Championship, both being won by Scott Moran
Scott Moran
Scott Moran is a British hillclimb driver, based in Ludlow, Shropshire,. He is the reigning British Hill Climb Champion. Scott has won the British Hill Climb Championship three times driving the Gould GR61X he shares with his father, 1997 British Champion Roger Moran...
.
Bouley Bay Hill Climb past winners
Year | Driver | Vehicle | Time | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1946 | G. Bainbridge | E.R.A. | 55.9 sec | |
1947 | Raymond Mays Raymond Mays Thomas Raymond Mays CBE was an auto racing driver and entrepreneur from Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.He attended Oundle School, where he met Amherst Villiers, leaving at the end of 1917. After army service in the Grenadier Guards in France, he attended Christ's College, Cambridge... |
E.R.A. | 59.8 sec R | 24 July. |
1948 | Joe Fry Joe Fry Joe Fry was a British racing driver and distant member of the Fry's Chocolate family.... |
Freikaiserwagen | 59.2 sec | 15 July, joint fastest. |
Dennis Poore Dennis Poore Roger Dennistoun "Dennis" Poore was a British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver,. Poore used his personal weath to bankroll the founding, in 1950, of the motor racing journal Autosport. He himself was a keen motor sport participant, and competed in two Formula One World... |
Alfa Romeo | |||
1949 | Sydney Allard Sydney Allard Sydney Herbert Allard was the founder of the Allard car company and a successful racing motorist. He was remarkable in that he achieved sporting success in cars of his own manufacture.... |
Steyr-Allard | 55.6 sec | 21 July. Course reduced 50 yards. |
1950 | Ken Wharton Ken Wharton Kenneth Wharton was a British racing driver from England. He began competing in the new National 500cc Formula in his own special, later acquiring a Cooper. Ken participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1952 and scored a total of 3 championship points... |
Cooper 998 c.c. | 55.4 sec | |
1951 | Ken Wharton | Cooper 998 c.c. s/c | 54.2 sec R | 26 July. |
1952 | Ken Wharton | Cooper 998 c.c. s/c | 55.4 sec | |
1953 | Ken Wharton | Cooper-J.A.P. | 52.8 sec R | 23 July. |
1954 | Ken Wharton | Cooper 996 s/c | 53.6 sec | Thurs 22 July. |
1955 | Ken Wharton | Cooper 996 s/c | 53.0 sec | 21 July; 1,011 yards. |
1956 | Ken Wharton | Cooper 1,100 c.c. | 52.6 sec R | |
1957 | Tony Marsh Tony Marsh (racing driver) Anthony Ernest "Tony" Marsh was a British racing driver from England. His Formula One career was short and unsuccessful, but he enjoyed great success in hillclimbing, winning the British Hill Climb Championship on a record six occasions.Having begun his hillclimbing career in 1953 with a... |
Cooper-J.A.P. 1,098 c.c. | 53.3 sec | |
1958 | David Boshier-Jones David Boshier-Jones David Boshier-Jones is a British racing driver, whose career ran from 1952 until his retirement in 1961. He competed both in circuit racing and in hillclimbs, achieving success in both disciplines but particularly on the hills, where he claimed three successive British Hill Climb Championships, in... |
Cooper-J.A.P. | 53.82 sec | |
1959 | David Boshier-Jones | Cooper-J.A.P. | 51.00 sec | |
1960 | David Boshier-Jones | Cooper 1,098 c.c. | 50.84 sec R | Rain led to abandonment. |
1961 | Mac Daghorn | Cooper-J.A.P. | 51.75 sec | Oil on course led to abandonment. |
1962 | Tico Martini Martini (cars) Martini Cars is a constructor of Formula racing cars from France, founded by Renato "Tico" Martini in 1965, when Martini and partner Bill Knight founded the Winfield Racing School at the Magny-Cours circuit... |
Martini-Special 650 c.c. | 50.63 sec R | 26 July. |
1963 | 25 July. | |||
1964 | 23 July. | |||
1965 | Tony Marsh | Marsh-Special | R | 22 July. |
1966 | Tony Marsh | Marsh-GM | 50.21 sec | |
1967 | Round 7 British Hill Climb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British... :Tony Marsh |
Marsh Special | 45.26 sec | |
1968 | ||||
1969 | Mike MacDowel Mike MacDowel Michael George Hartwell MacDowel is a former racing driver from England. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1957 French Grand Prix on 7 July 1957, sharing his car with Jack Brabham... |
Brabham BT30X-Climax V8 | 45.61 sec | |
1970 | David Hepworth David Hepworth (racing driver) David Hepworth was a British racing driver, who won the British Hill Climb Championship twice, in 1969 and 1971.In the early-mid 1960s Hepworth drove an Austin-Healey 3000 fitted with a Chevrolet engine in both rallies and circuit racing, but by 1968 he was driving a Hepworth-Oldsmobile; in this he... |
Hepworth FF | FTD | Oct. Postponed due to dock strike. |
1971 | ||||
1972 | Sir N. Williamson | March 712S-Hart 2.0-litre | 43.15 sec R | |
1973 | Mike MacDowel | Brabham BT36X-Repco 5-litre | 43.09 sec R | |
1974 | Chris Cramer | |||
1975 | Roy Lane | |||
1976 | Sir Nicholas Williamson | March 741 DFV 3.0-litre | 42.12 sec R | |
1977 | Alister Douglas-Osborn | Pilbeam R22 3.0-litre | 42.48 sec | |
1987 | Round 9 British Hill Climb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British... : Martyn Griffiths Martyn Griffiths Martyn Griffiths is a British racing driver, whose greatest success has been in hillclimbing. He has won the British Hill Climb Championship on five occasions .-References:... |
Pilbeam MP53-Hart 2.8-litre | 40.30 sec | 23 July. |
1995 | Round 10 British Hill Climb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British... : Andy Priaulx Andy Priaulx Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE is a British racing driver from Guernsey. He is a European Touring Car Championship champion, three times World Touring Car Championship champion and the only FIA Touring Car champion to win an International level championship for four consecutive years... |
Pilbeam MP58/03-Ford DFL 4-litre | 38.65 sec R | |
1996 | Round 10 British Hill Climb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British... : Roger Moran Roger Moran Roger Moran is a British hillclimb driver, who won the British Hillclimb Championship in 1997. In recent years he has shared a car with his son Scott.-References:... |
Pilbeam MP72/3-Judd EV 3.5-litre | 39.64 sec | 18 July. |
2008 2008 British Hill Climb Championship season The 2008 Nicholson McLaren Engines British Hill Climb Championship season was the 62nd British Hill Climb Championship season. It was the last year in which Nicholson McLaren sponsored the championship, as MCL Motorhomes took over the championship sponsorship for 2009. The series was contested... |
Round 17 British Hill Climb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British... : Scott Moran Scott Moran Scott Moran is a British hillclimb driver, based in Ludlow, Shropshire,. He is the reigning British Hill Climb Champion. Scott has won the British Hill Climb Championship three times driving the Gould GR61X he shares with his father, 1997 British Champion Roger Moran... |
Gould Gould Racing Gould Racing is a British motorsport company, specialising in racing car manufacture and engineering. The company is run by David Gould, and is based in Newbury, Berkshire, England.... -GR61 |
38.82 sec | 17 July. |
Round 18 British Hill Climb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British... : Scott Moran |
Gould-GR61 | 38.77 sec | ||
2009 | Round 19 British Hill Climb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British... : Roger Moran |
Gould Gould Racing Gould Racing is a British motorsport company, specialising in racing car manufacture and engineering. The company is run by David Gould, and is based in Newbury, Berkshire, England.... -NME GR61X 3.5-litre |
38.37 sec | 16 July. |
Round 20 British Hill Climb Championship The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British... : Scott Moran |
Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre | 39.44 sec |
Key: R = Course Record; FTD = Fastest Time of the Day.
External links
- Top 12 Run Off http://www.top12runoff.co.uk/