The good weather continued through the weekend

Rob Samuels put in an incredible performance on the Sunday

Richard Preece continues to find pace with the F430

Brian Jackson put in a strong performance with the Portofino

Peter Rogerson's 360 shows Ferraris don't have to be red to be pretty

A touch of early hill mist greeted drivers on Sunday, but once again Dave Snelson was ever consistent with another string of runs in the 63’s a 63.51/63.66 – the timekeepers will have wished the class record from the day before was written in pencil, as Dave lowered it again to 63.47. Meanwhile, Rob Samuels, was extracting everything from the Speciale with a best time of 64.62, taking chunks of time out over the day, which Dave Snelson declared was the “highlight performance of the weekend a massive improvement and hard to achieve”, showing the camaraderie in the paddock where everyone wants each other to keep improving.

John Kennedy was spectacular again, a lurid moment on the grass at Quarry denting his times but not the California. Down the order times were improving with Richard Preece lowering his best to a 69.02 taking almost a second off his first run of the day and acclimatising well to the new car since its Curborough debut, with all drivers saving their best drives for competitive runs 1 and 2 over the two earlier practice runs as the sun burnt through. Pauline Goodwin declared she had her race head on for Sundays runs and duly set her best time of the weekend on run 1. All cars finished all runs apart from Peter Rogerson who retired his 360 on the final run with an ailing gearbox.

Other notable drives, Iwan Attwood chipping away in the ‘very expensive’ Dino starting weekend in the 88 seconds and finishing the final Sunday run with in 81.30 , finding almost 7 seconds as he got to grips with the car ‘and the tyres!’ With Tony also improving to end up less than 2 seconds shy of Iwan’s time.

It was great to also see some ex-competitors in the paddock over the weekend too:

It was lovely to be back at Harewood on such a sunny day, I last competed at Harewood some 15 or more years ago and have visited to spectate a few times since. It was so nice to catch up with some of my old race friends as well as meeting one or two newer competitors. Harewood is still full of the warm and friendly crowd I remember and a relaxed atmosphere it always was.

There were some pretty quick times today, especially from David Snelson. Wow, his time was quick.

~ Nick Frost

Hillclimb TV were streaming live coverage on Youtube for those wanting to see the action.

Fastest times are below – which are known as ‘scratch times’

Sunday 1. D Snelson 63.47 2. R Samuels 64.62 3. B. Jackson 68.77

The Championship runs a Performance Equaliser Percentage (PEP) format which balances the cars of differing age and performance with a percentage per tipo either added to or taken off the fastest time to create the Championship position.

Thanks to all drivers for taking part and to CSA Service Group for their title sponsorship along with Ferrari Financial Services, Woodford Trailers, Iconic Auctioneers and Meguiar’s for their support.