Basis of the Gurston Down Championship.

The Gurston Down Hillclimb Championship, now generously sponsored by Turbo Dynamics, comprises of twenty rounds, two at each of the ten events being part of the Championship. The events are held in April (four), June (two), July (two) and August (two). There are two chances to score points in every event, so every timed run counts!

Regulations and Target Times for 2024

The Sunday August meeting points will be doubled.

Here are the full regulations – 2024 Championship and Challenge Regulations

The brief SUMMARY of the rules are as follows:

All cars wishing to score points must carry the Turbo Dynamics / Online Cleaning Technologies sponsor stickers, available in the office at sign-on. If the sponsors sticker is not on the car, points will NOT be awarded.

Entry to the championship and challenge will NOT be accepted after the closing date in May and points cannot be awarded retrospectively.

i) Points will be scored according to Target Time, taking into account only registered contenders.

All cars wishing to score points must carry the Turbo Dynamics and Online Cleaning Technologies sponsor sticker, available in the office at sign-on. If the sponsors sticker is not on the car, points will NOT be awarded.

Entry to the championship and challenge will NOT be accepted after the closing date in May and points cannot be awarded retrospectively.

Basis of the Top Ten Challenge.

Running in parallel with the Gurston Down Hillclimb Championship, and at the same meetings, The Online Cleaning Technologies Top Ten Challenge sees the ten fastest registered competitors at each meeting take an addition run, in the Top Ten Run-Off, irrespective of which class they compete in. You must have the sponsor’s sticker attached to the car.

Ten points go to the fastest contender, down to one point for the 10th fastest.

So, as you might expect, the Challenge tends to be dominated by the larger capacity single-seater racing cars running at the end of the entry, though it is by no means impossible for the Supersports or Sports Libre cars to get amongst the points, or indeed the smaller capacity racing cars.

And should Mother Nature decide to interfere by raining part way through the meeting, then the whole Challenge is thrown wide open.

The remarkably rapid smaller single-seaters, particularly the bike-engined cars, often spring surprises, especially if conditions are less than perfect, when their nimble handling can overcome the power deficit to the bigger engined cars.