Gurston Down Speed Hill Climb

Description

In 1967, BARC South West, the club that runs Gurston Down, staged it’s first speed hill climb here at Gurston Down.

Gurston Down is now a multi award winning speed hill climb venue and one of the fastest in Britain. We have held over 300 meetings at the hill and stage nine events a year including two for the MSA British Hill Climb Championship.

The course record produced an average speed of just over 85 mph and the fastest recorded speed over the finish is 159 mph. The course starts down-hill, dropping down to Hollow, where the fastest cars around doing around 120+ mph, round a sweeping left hander of Little Hollow and Hollow Bend, braking very hard in to the sharp and steep uphill section of Karousel. Speeds though Karousel are down to 25 mph. After the second right hand part of Karousel there is a short straight with a bump, Deer Leep where cars and bikes can get a little air, before the hard left hand corner of Ashes.. After Ashes, it’s up-hill again to the finish.

This is a very fast hill climb and it provides much entertainment for both drivers and spectators.