Harewood Hill Climb 2023

Yorkshire Post

Harewood Hill Climb competitor, Peter Herbert, chats to Yorkshire Post photographer, James Hardisty about his involvement in this year's Harewood Hill Climb 2023 The 61st year of the Harewood Hillclimb - BARC Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championships sponsored by Nimbus Motorsport.

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00:00 My name is Peter Herbert, I compete in a 33 year old Porsche 911.

00:20 I'm an instructor at the Harewood Driving Academy and I was Harewood Hillclimb Champion

00:27 in 1997 with a Westfield Cosworth.

00:31 I've been coming here since 1989 when I first started competing with a Peugeot 205 GTR.

00:38 The thing about this course is that it's very very technical, you never really learn it

00:42 properly, you discover something new every meeting.

00:47 Also the meeting is incredibly well organised and we have a return road so everything moves

00:52 at a good pace.

00:54 Well the very first driver to take FTD here in 1966 was Tony Langfranchi who was a very

01:03 famous racing driver and since then yes we've had a fair number of well top hill climb drivers,

01:10 rally drivers and racing drivers.

01:13 This is very much an amateur sport in the best possible sense, there's no money in it

01:18 but everybody helps each other, everyone looks after each other and we do it essentially

01:23 for fun even though we're all very competitive.

01:26 That's the beauty of hill climbing, you can use any vehicle, you can turn up in your standard

01:30 Vauxhall Corsa or you can have a £300,000 Gould GR 59, it's up to you really how much

01:39 money you can spend according to your means but it's a very very accessible sport.

01:45 I just locked him!

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