Please don’t arrive before 13:00 on Friday as we will be cleaning and sorting the hill for the weekends competition.
The restaurant will be open on Friday night for dinner as will the bar. We will be serving hot and cold drinks, breakfast and lunch and an evening meal on Friday and Saturday.
See you at the weekend.
Our spectator ticket price has been held for another year at £12.50 per adult in advance or £15.00 on the gate.
You can get advanced tickets for the April meetings using our exclusive online ticket supplier, TicketSource.
Tickets will be available on the gate at every meeting. We are able to accept most credit and debit cards too.
The April meeting details are here:
Final Instructions – Sat 26 Sun 27 April 2025
Here are the details of the entries for our Test Day.
Test Day Final Instructions 13 April 2025
Please make sure you have read all the documents, particularly the Final Instructions, and remember you will be required to bring your MSUK Licence for inspection.
Notice is hereby given of BARC South West Centre’s Annual General Meeting to be held at the Restaurant at Gurston Down on Tuesday 6th May 2025 at 18:30. All BARC South West Centre members are welcome.
Here is the agenda.
Agenda for the 2025 Annual General Meeting
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The 2025 Supplementary Regulations, Championship Regulations and MX5 Class Regulations have been published.
2025 Supplementary Regulations
2025 Mazda MX5 Class Regulations
2025 Turbo Dynamics Championship and Online Cleaning Technologies Challenge Regulations
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Advanced Spectator Tickets are available now for all of the 2025 Events at Gurston Down.
Advance Ticket prices have been held at £12.50 per day, per adult and “on the gate” ticket prices also remain unchanged at £15.00.
Our exclusive online ticket store is run by TicketSource:
Note: Our 400th Meeting will be on Saturday 2nd August 2025 – look out for more on that soon.
We are pleased to announce that you may enter our 2025 events NOW.
We have maintained our event entry prices for another year at £130 per day. We haven’t raised prices for more than five years and have been working hard to maintain them at the present level.
Get your entries in, some events already have 30% of spaces sold!
Our 2025 Event Dates will be:
Sunday 13th April 2025 – Test Day
Weekend – 26th and 27th April 2025
British Hill Climb Championship Meeting – 24th and 25th May 2025
Weekend – 14th and 15th June 2025
Weekend – 5th and 6th July 2025
Weekend – 2nd and 3rd August 2025 – August 2nd is our 400th meeting
Champioship and Challenge Finale – 23rd and 24th August 2025
Drivers School dates are not yet finalised.
The 2024 Turbo Dynamics Gurston Down Championship finished on a high after our August meetings.
Our overall champion was confirmed as James Moore. James had a great season finishing second in the Online Cleaning Technologies Top Ten Challenge and winning his class championship too, quite an achievement.
Here are the class results in the Turbo Dynamics Gurston Down Championship.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Andrew Ward | Mazda Roadster RS |
232.03 |
|
2 |
John Hammock | Mazda Roadster RS |
205.71 |
Andrew Ward has had a very positive year, consistency has awarded Andrew with a class championship win.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
John Davey | MG Midget / Renault R8 |
302.20 |
|
2 |
David Nutland | Mini |
284.04 |
|
3 |
Andrew Till | Ford Feista |
243.18 |
John’s season started quite badly, the MG Midget’s engine wasn’t ready and his Renault R8 just didn’t cut the mustard. This left John behind for all of the season until the final weekend. David Nutland was in such a great position before then. John’s sub-40 second runs made the class championship his.He also finished fifth overall.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Russell Davies | Honda Civic Type R |
311.92 |
|
2 |
James Wills | Renault Clio |
286.45 |
|
3 |
Will Haimes | Renault Clio |
220.50 |
Russell Davies has had another fantastic season. He had won the class championship and finished second in the overall championship. The second and third place men, James and Will, share James’ Renault Clio. Will had a great first season too.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Steve Cox | VW Golf R |
272.51 |
|
2 |
Simon Neve | Mitsubishi Evo |
197.41 |
Steve Cox in the VW Golf R has had another great season, not just winning the class but he qualified for a few Top Ten Run-offs too. Steve and the Golf really have come together in 2024, building on his success in 2023.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Clive Skipper | Caterham |
282.39 |
|
2 |
Rob Brodie | Fisher Fury |
159.85 |
Clive Skipper had a good season, keeping Rob Brodie at bay. Rob missed a few rounds because he was competing in the British Hill Climb Cup. Rob’s Fisher Fury seems to getting better and better.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Graham Beale | Ginetta G33 |
298.21 |
|
2 |
Paul Slade | Jaguar XKE |
182.26 |
Graham Beale in the Ginetta G33 had another great season. He also qualifying for multiple Top Ten run-offs and scored point there too. Graham takes the class championship and seventh overall. Paul Slade didn’t compete in all of the events but it was great to see the Jaguar E Type on the hill.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Neil Turner | Mini |
307.56 |
|
2 |
James White | Mini |
224.61 |
|
3 |
David Bean | Mini |
195.35 |
Neil Turn and that super fast Mini takes a great class win. James White in Bright Eyes, another super fast Mini, finished second. A very consistent performance from Neil gave him the class win and fourth in the overall championship.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Luke Chard-Maple | Renault Clio |
275.34 |
|
2 |
Steve Jackman | MGF |
197.31 |
Luke Chard-Maple in the Renault Clio supported by Bridgewater and Taunton College has had a superb first season. At one stage Luke was leading the championship but issues with the car caused the team to miss a number of rounds, taking the overall championship out of reach. We hope that Luke and the BTC team will be back next season as they will be one to watch..
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Geoff Chalke | Subaru Impreza |
177.58 |
|
2 |
Stephen Moore | Mitsubishi Evo |
102.32 |
Geoff Chalke is one of our Drivers School success stories. Geoff attended an early Drivers School and had a few rather lucky escapes. But these didn’t stop him. A few weeks later after getting his car looked at by the scrutineers he came back and has had such a great season in his Subaru.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Martin Watson | Westfield |
229.93 |
|
2 |
Steve Holland | Caterham |
106.18 |
Martin Watson has had a good season. The bar is very high in this class after Steve Holland’s 2023 performances. The class record being in the mid 30 second mark, which is a good run for some of the single seaters, Martin was always going to struggle to challenge for the Overall Championship. He has qualified for a number of Top Ten Challenges too.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Fyrth Cross | Dempster Ensign LNF3 |
291.52 |
|
2 |
Mike Broome | Alexis Mk17 |
249.40 |
Fyrth Crosse and his Dempster Ensign LNF3 has had another great season full of consistent performances and finishes giving him the class title.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Tim Pitfield | DJ Firecat |
103.64 |
Tim Pitfield and his DJ Firecat started the season well. But Tim had others plans. Tim and his son, Ben, have been competing in Tim’s Formula Ford for the second half of the season, so no additional points for Tim here.
Class 15b – Sports Libre Over 2000cc
PICTURE NIC MANN
Nic in the amazing Manic Beattie, had a pretty sound season. The car behaving most of the time gave him a number of Top Ten Challenge wins and fifth in the Online Cleaning Technologies Top Ten Challenge.
Class 19 – 601cc to 1100cc Racing Car Class
PICTURE JAMES MOORE
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
James Moore | Empire Evo |
312.40 |
|
2 |
Mark Crookall | OMS PT |
300.19 |
|
3 |
Ben Bonfield | Jedi MK4 |
281.93 |
James Moore and the Empire Evo has had an almost perfect season. James has taken this class, which is very competitive, the Championship Overall and was second behind Paul Haimes, in the Top Ten Challenge. Mark Crookall in his OMS PT has had a great season, third in the Top Ten Challenge and sixth overall in the Championship. Sadly, Ben Bonfield’s season was very tough, he has had issues with cars and engines. This class is ever popular and there were many great performances.
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Andrew Mathis | OMS |
244.21 |
| Position | Driver | Car |
Points |
|
1 |
Paul Haimes | Gould GR59 |
309.87 |
Paul Haimes and the turbo-charged Gould GR59 season has be almost perfect. Paul has had some issues with the car but they haven’t stopped him from winning the Online Cleaning Technologies Top Ten Challenge and third in the overall championship. Paul is also have a good season in the British Hill Climb Champion.
Paul Crute in the lovely OMS28 Jaguar is on his own in this class.
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