There are three or four championships being run at Gurston Down in addition to those that are invited. Invited championships are visitors and use the Gurston venue but manage their own championship to their own rules, these include the British Hillclimb Championship, Ferarri,, Bugatti, Triumph and the Connaught Championships
Gurston Downs Championships are
Gurston Down Championship which comprises
- Overall Championship
- Class awards
Top Ten Runoff Championship
and we’re trialing the Performance and Conditions Adjusted Championship PaCAC as an unofficial competition in 2026
In order to be included in the Gurston Championship, Top Ten Runoff and PaCAC, the competitors must be registered in the championship for their nominated class of competition.
Gurston Overall and Class Championship
This is the main competition at Gurston Down. Each car is competing in a class of cars. Each class has a best time achieved in the last few years. Each competitors run is compared against that best time achieve in all the rounds up to , but excluding the current one back two prior competitive years. If the competitor achieves that time, they get 20 points, if they are a second slower they are awareded 19 points, likewise if they exceed it by a second they are awarded 21 points.
Each competitors best pair of rounds from the Sunday in on the first competitive weekend of the year and last weekend of the year are doubled – only one days point are doubled if they compete in both
This equalises achievement. Competitors within a class are awarded end of event trophies, and end of season trophies based on those that get the best points score across the season.
All the competitors are also tallied into the Gurston Overall Championship..
Top Ten RunOff
The twelve fastest runners of the day that are registered in the Gurston Championships and TopTen RunOff are invited to run once more at the end of the day. From that one run, the fastest runner is awarded 10 points, next 9 points, all the way to 1 point for 10th place, no points are awarded for 11th and 12th. The points are tallied over the season, each competitors top 7 scores are counted towards the championship, As with the main championship their best score from either the Sunday in the First and last weekend of competition is doubled.
Performance and Condition Adjusted Championship
We are trialling a scoring system which is intended to equalise performance of cars and competitors abilities, promoting ongoing improvemen
The Performance and Conditions Adjusted Championship, PaCAC, is being trialled and trophies are being awarded at events and end of year.
Current Standings
Scores for all championships are available here (this is updated shortly after each round/event)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VsXNHeJcOSmDzBIZlfM3JSp99LGzAfe56VuJQk5gZCE/edit?usp=sharing