Hillspeed

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Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Hillspeed
Nick Gilkes Oulton Park.jpg
Founded1970
BaseHathersage, Derbyshire
Team principal(s)Richard Ollerenshaw
Current series GB3 Championship
GB4 Championship
Former series British Saloon Car Championship
ARP Formula 3 Championship
Formula Renault UK
BARC Formula Renault
Ginetta Juniors
Ginetta GT Supercup
BRDC Formula 4 Championship
Current driversGB3 Championship
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Gerrard Xie
Flag of Turkey.svg Daniel Mavlyutov
GB4 Championship
TBA
Drivers'
Championships
2010 Formula Renault Powell
2010 Ginetta Juniors Ingram
2011 Ginetta Juniors Morris
2012 Ginetta Juniors (Rookie Cup) Massot
Website http://www.hillspeed.co.uk

Hillspeed is a motor racing team based in the United Kingdom. They currently participate in the GB3 Championship and the GB4 Championship.

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The team was founded in 1970 in order to run the British Saloon Car Championship entry of Morgan Ollerenshaw. In subsequent years, the team focused primarily on single-seater racing. Later, the company would also be involved in high performance road cars.

In recent years, Hillspeed have been one of the most successful teams in breaking new talent in junior racing series, winning the 2010 Formula Renault BARC season with Alice Powell as well as back-to-back Ginetta Junior championships with Tom Ingram in 2010 and Seb Morris in 2011. They joined the BRDC British Formula 4 Championship when it was founded in 2013. They also stayed in the series when it became the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship in 2016. Recently the series was renamed into GB3 Championship.

Current series results

BRDC Formula 4 Championship / BRDC British Formula 3 Championship / GB3 Championship

YearCarDriversRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsD.C.T.C.
2013 Ralph Firman Racing-Duratec MSV F4-013 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Seb Morris 24101104102ndN/A
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Struan Moore2410042759th
Flag of Malaysia.svg Rahul Raj Mayer 24000013617th
2014 Ralph Firman Racing-Duratec MSV F4-013 Flag of Malaysia.svg Rahul Raj Mayer 24000022312thN/A
Flag of Brazil.svg Gustavo Lima18100119414th
Flag of Mexico.svg Alfredo Zabalza20000012417th
2015 Ralph Firman Racing-Duratec MSV F4-013 Flag of India.svg Ameya Vaidyanathan 24000321712thN/A
Flag of Oman.svg Al Faisal Al Zubair 18000118916th
Flag of Argentina.svg Hernán Fallas18000010319th
Flag of South Africa.svg Sebastian Lanzetti900018920th
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Riki Christodoulou 300000NC†
2015 (AT) Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Struan Moore30001457thN/A
Flag of India.svg Ameya Vaidyanathan 40000408th
2016 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Flag of Bahrain.svg Ali Al Khalifa30000529thN/A
2017 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Flag of the United States.svg Chase Owen2400113027thN/A
Flag of Germany.svg Nick Worm20000015915th
2018 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Flag of Thailand.svg Sasakorn Chaimongkol2300022429thN/A
Flag of Germany.svg Jusuf Owega 20000018711th
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Ben Hurst23000113716th
2019 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Flag of Thailand.svg Sasakorn Chaimongkol2410123148thN/A
Flag of Argentina.svg Nicolás Varrone 9100210917th
2020 Tatuus-Cosworth BF3-020 Flag of Thailand.svg Sasakorn Chaimongkol2400013187thN/A
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Oliver Clarke2400023108th
2021 Tatuus-Cosworth BF3-020 Flag of Ireland.svg Jonathan Browne 900018319th8th
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Flynn Jackes30000628th
2022 Tatuus- Cosworth MSV-022 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Nick Gilkes 231002165.514th9th
2023 Tatuus-Cosworth MSV-022 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Gerrard Xie 22101112820th9th
Flag of Turkey.svg Daniel Mavlyutov 23400411622nd
2024 Tatuus-Cosworth MSV-022 Flag of India.svg Aditya Kulkarni

GB4 Championship

YearCarDriversRacesWinsPolesF/LapsPodiumsPointsD.C.
2022 Tatuus F4-T014 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Max Marzorati 24022104823rd
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Megan Gilkes 2421333756th
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Marcus Short300003916th
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Oliver Clarke300013517th

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