Loton Park Hill Climb

Loton Park

The downhill run to Triangle
Location	Loton Park, Shropshire, England
Time zone	GMT
Major Events	British Hill Climb Championship
Hill Length	0.838 miles (1,475 yd)
Hill Record	43.52 (Scott Moran, 2012, British Hill Climb Championship)

Loton Park Hill Climb is a hillclimb held in part of the Loton Park deer park in Shropshire, England. The track was originally constructed by the members of The Severn Valley Motor Club based in Shrewsbury, in the mid-1950s. The first ever winner was Peter Foulkes in a Cooper Climax. The track was threatened with closure in 1969 ^[1] and since then events have been organised by the Hagley & District Light Car Club, who obtained the lease on the land from owner Sir Michael Leighton in 1970, in which year the first National A hillclimb was staged.

The course is 1475 yards (1349 metres) in length, making it the third longest course used in the British Hill Climb Championship. It contains an unusual downhill section fairly early in its layout. As of June 2009, the hill record of 44.42 seconds stands to Scott Moran, who set the mark in the second run-off of the 13 April 2009 meeting. Martin Groves had previously beaten his own previous record (44.53s) with 44.46s in the first run-off.^[2]

Loton Park Hill Climb past winners

Year	Driver	Vehicle	Time	Notes
1960				Sept 3.
1961	M. Hatton	Cooper 1,100 c.c.	35.68 sec	[3]
	M. Hatton	Cooper	33.95 sec R	[4] July 22.
1963	Round 1 : Tony Marsh	Marsh-Climax 1½-litre S/C [5]	37.03 sec	[6] April 27, lengthened 900-yard course.
1964	Round 1 : Peter Westbury	Ferguson-Climax P99 2½-litre	35.56 sec	[7] April 25/26.
1965	Round 1 : Tony Marsh	Marsh-Special Oldsmobile		[8]
1967	Round 1 : Bryan Eccles	Brabham BT18-Oldsmobile V8		[9]
1968				Sept 1.
1969	Round 1 : David Hepworth	Hepworth FF		[10]
1973	Round 1 : Sir Nicholas Williamson	Marlyn 712-DFV		[11]
	Roy Lane	McLaren M14D	54.72 sec R	[12]
1979	Martyn Griffiths	Pilbeam MP40 2.2-litre	50.81 sec R	[13] July 1.
2006	Round 1 : Scott Moran	Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre	46.54 sec	[14] April 7.
	Round 2 : Roger Moran	Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre	46.34 sec
	Round 13 : Scott Moran	Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre	45.94 sec	[15] June 11.
	Round 14 : Martin Groves	Gould-NME GR55	45.45 sec
2009	Round 13 : Scott Moran	Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre	44.72 sec	[16] June 13–14.
	Round 14 : Scott Moran	Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre	44.78 sec
2010	Round 9 : Roger Moran	Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre	45.36 sec	[17] June 13.
	Round 10 : Trevor Willis	OMS-Powertec 2.8-litre	58.72 sec
	Round 33 : Scott Moran	Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre	44.62 sec FTD	[18] Sept 26.
	Round 34 : Martin Groves	Gould-NME GR55B 3.5-litre	44.73 sec

Key: R = Course Record; FTD = Fastest Time of the Day; S/C = Supercharged.

References

1. Motor, May 24, 1969, Page 68.
3. Autosport, May 19, 1961, Page 659; C.A.N. May, Speed Hill-Climb, G.T. Foulis & Co LTD, 1962, Page 166.
4. C.A.N. May, Speed Hill-Climb, G.T. Foulis & Co LTD, 1962, Page 176.
5. For a description of the Marsh-Climax see Autosport, March 29, 1963, Page 423.
6. Autosport, May 3, 1963, Page 617; Motor Sport, June 1963, Page 397.
7. Autosport, May 1, 1964, Page 619; Motor Sport, June 1964, Page 476.
8. Motor Sport, September 1965, Page 745.
9. Motor Sport, August 1967, Page 702.
10. Motor, May 10, 1969.
11. Motor, August 18, 1973, Pages 24-25.
12. Autosport, Aug 16, 1973, Page 54.
13. Autosport, July 12, 1979, Page 42.
14. Autosport, April 20, 2006, Page 101.
15. Autosport, June 15, 2006, Page 105.
16. Autosport, June 18, 2009, Page 117.
17. Autosport, June 17, 2010, Page 81.
18. Speedscene, Issue 161, December 2010, Pages 17-19.

External links

• Loton Park Speed Hillclimb at Hagley & District Light Car Club website

Coordinates: 52°43′23.71″N 2°57′0.11″W / 52.7232528°N 2.9500306°W