Rest and Be Thankful Hill Climb is a defunct hillclimbing

Hillclimbing in the British Isles

Hillclimbing in the British Isles differs from the style of hillclimb events staged in many other parts of the world, in that courses are generally short — mostly under one mile in length — and this means that cars and drivers do not generally cross between British events and the...

 course in Glen Croe

Glen Croe

Glen Croe is a glen in the heart of the Arrochar Alps surrounded by large and rugged mountains characterised by huge boulders.-Geography:Glen Croe is located to the north west of Loch Lomond and Loch Long, draining into the latter. At the head of the glen is the pass leading to Glen Kinglas...

, Argyll, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. The first known use of the road for a hillclimb was in 1906. The event used to run as a National counter in 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...

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In 1952 Motor Sport described the course: "The three danger spots on this course which is 1,425 yards long, and rises over 400 feet, are Stone Bridge, Cobblers Corner and the hairpin bend at the finish and of course there is always the occasional sheep that has to be driven off the road."

On July 1, 1961 Jackie Stewart

Jackie Stewart

Sir John Young Stewart, OBE , better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish former racing driver and team owner. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am...

 drove a Ford 105E-engined Marcos

Marcos (automobile)

Marcos was a British sports car manufacturer. The name was a combination of founders Jem Marsh and Frank Costin.-History:Marcos was founded in Luton, in Bedfordshire, England, in 1959 by Jem Marsh and Frank Costin. Frank Costin had earlier worked on the De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bombers and...

 at an event here. He said: "it's a special place for me, the cradle of my life in motor racing."

In 1970 Motor wrote:

"The Rest, the famous Scottish Rest and Be
Thankful Hill climb, will be used for the last
time this year. Like many long established
venues, time has overtaken it from the safety
angle. A lot of money needs to be spent on
barriers and banks and the Royal Scottish
Automobile Club who run the National
Open Hill Climb there say it will cost far too
much; so this year it will only be used by
clubs for restricted events and then no more."

The venue has also been used for rally special stages and classic car events. The "Friends of the Rest" are working to revive the course (2009).

Rest and Be Thankful Hill Climb past winners

Year	Driver	Vehicle	Time	Notes
1906	Broome White	Mercedes 60 h.p.	2m 19sec	Distance about 1 mile.
1949	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.	68.00 sec	July 9; 1,800 yards.
1950	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 #65	57.60 sec	July 1.
1951	Dennis Poore	Alfa Romeo	56.32 sec	July 7; 1,425 yards; wet.
1952	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	54.23 sec R	July 5; 1,425 yards; fine.
1953	Michael Christie	Cooper-J.A.P. 1,100 c.c.	55.81 sec	July 4.
1954	Michael Christie	Cooper 1,098 c.c. s/c	63.87 sec	July 3; 1,425 yards; wet.
1955	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 #96	56.12 sec
1956	Tony Marsh	Cooper 1,100 c.c.	53.75 sec R
1957	Tony Marsh	Cooper-J.A.P.	56.31 sec	Showers.
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.	55.45 sec	July 4.
1960	David Boshier-Jones	Cooper-J.A.P.	52.05 sec	July 1.
1961	Tony Marsh	Lotus-Climax 1,500 c.c.	54.04 sec	July 1, wet to sunny.
1962	A.E. Marsh	Marsh Special	52.52 sec
1963	Peter Westbury Peter Westbury Peter Westbury is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, scoring no championship points. In 1969 he raced a Formula 2 Brabham-Cosworth, driving in his first Grand Prix in the 1969 German Grand Prix. He finished ninth on the...	Felday-Daimler 2.6-litre s/c		June 29.
1964				June 27.
1965	Peter Meldrum	Lotus 20-Allard s/c
1966	Peter Boshier-Jones	Lotus-Climax 1,200 c.c.	50.88 sec	July 2.
1967	Tony Marsh	Marsh Special		July 2.
1968	Martin Brain	Cooper T81B F1-1-67-Chrysler V8 7.2-litre		June 29.
1969	D. 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 Traco FF Chevrolet 4.5-litre	53.07 sec

Key: R = Course Record.

See also

• Bo'ness Hill Climb
  Bo'ness Hill Climb
  Bo'ness Hill Climb is a hillclimbing course near Bo'ness, Scotland, sometimes referred to as Kinneil Hill Climb. In March 1947 Motor Sport reported: "Kinneil hill at Bo'ness will provide an 880-yard course, having been lengthened by 140 yds." The first round of the inaugural series of the British...
  
  
• Doune Hillclimb
  Doune Hillclimb
  Doune Hillclimb, Carse of Cambus, near Doune in the district of Stirling, Scotland, is the home of the only round of the British Hill Climb Championship to be held in Scotland,...
  
  
• Fintray Hillclimb
  Fintray hillclimb
  Fintray House Hillclimb is a speed motorsport event held near Hatton of Fintray, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Each event is a separate round of the Scottish Hillclimb Championship. The venue is a working farm for the majority of the year but Grampian Automobile Club stage two, two-day events each...
  
  
• Forrestburn Hillclimb
  Forrestburn Hillclimb
  Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb track near Kirk o' Shotts in North Lanarkshire, central Scotland. The track opened in 1993, and was the first purpose-built hillclimb track in the United Kingdom to be completed since Brooklands in the 1930s...
  
  

External links

• Friends of the Rest: http://www.friendsoftherest.co.uk/