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Hillspeed

British motorsport team

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Hillspeed is a British auto racing team, based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. Formerly Hillspeed Racing and Hill Speed Racing, the team was founded in 1970 to support Morgan Ollerenshaw's entry in the British Saloon Car Championship (now British Touring Car Championship). It currently participates in the GB3 Championship and the GB4 Championship.

01History

The team was founded in 1970 as Hill Speed Racing to support Morgan Ollerenshaw's entry in 1970 season of the British Saloon Car Championship, now known as British Touring Car Championship. It is possible that the team is named after Hill Top (located at the outskirts of Sheffield), where the team was formerly based. According to an Autosport article in 2020, the team has become a "promine fixture" in United Kingdom motorsport after 50 years of existence.

GB3 Championship

Hillspeed joined the GB3 Championship when it was founded in 2013 as BRDC Formula 4 Championship. For this season, the team signed Seb Morris, Struan Moore and Rahul Raj Mayer.

Alfredo Zabalza, Gustavo Lima were signed for the team in the 2014 season. Rahul Raj Mayer also stayed with the team for his sophomore season.

For the 2015 season, the team signed Al Faisal Al Zubair, Ameya Vaidyanathan and Sebastian Lanzetti. Riki Christodoulou and Hernán Fallas also drove for the team for a part-time basis.

In the 2016 season, when the BRDC F4 was renamed to BRDC F3, Hillspeed signed Bahraini driver Ali Al Khalifa for a part-time entry.

For the 2017 season, Hillspeed entered into cooperation with Cliff Dempsey Racing. The cooperated entry signed three drivers: Chase Owen, Jordan Cane and Nick Worm. Later, Jordan Cane moved to Douglas Motorsport without driving for Hillspeed.

Hillspeed signed Ben Hurst, Sasakorn Chaimongkol and Jusuf Owega for the 2018 season.

In 2019, the team reduced to a two-car entry, as Sasakorn Chaimongkol remained with the team and Nicolás Varrone drove for the team in selected rounds.

For the 2020 season, Sasakorn Chaimongkol stayed with Hillspeed for his third BRDC F3 season. The team signed Oliver Clarke for the second car.

Jonathan Browne and Flynn Jackes drove for the team for a part-time basis in 2021, when the BRDC F3 was renamed to GB3 Championship.

2022 saw the team field only one car for Canadian driver Nick Gilkes.

In 2023, the team partnered with Hitech Grand Prix to field two Hitech GP Academy drivers: Gerrard Xie and Daniel Mavlyutov.

Hillspeed signed Indian driver Aditya Kulkarni for the team's only full-time entry in the 2024 season. Later, they added Marcus Luzio for their GB3 squad for selected rounds.

The team entered 2025 without any full-time entry, instead, Hillspeed's 2025 GB3 squad consisted of multiple part-time entries: Freddie Slater, Kanato Le, Hiyu Yamakoshi, Michael Shin, Yuanpu Cui, Lucas Fluxá, Newman Chi and Maxim Rehm.

In 2026, the team signed Dante Vinci, Peter Bouzinelos and Aurelia Nobels.

GB4 Championship

In 2021, the team was announced to join GB4 Championship and became the first team to commit to participate in the 2022 season.

In 2025, the team returned to GB4 after two-year absent. Hillspeed finished second in the teams' standing.

Other series

The team won the 2010 Formula Renault BARC season with Alice Powell as well as back-to-back Ginetta Junior championships in 2010 and 2011.

In 2025, the team entered into cooperation with organiser of the AU3 Championship. The team was announced to offer the AU3 Championship winner a fully-funded GB3 multi-day test program.

The team also formerly competed in ARP Formula 3 Championship, later known as MotorSport Vision Formula 3 Cup.

02Current series results

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

Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.
2013 Ralph Firman Racing-Duratec MSV F4-013 Seb Morris 24 1 0 1 10 410 2nd N/A
Struan Moore 24 1 0 0 4 275 9th
Rahul Raj Mayer 24 0 0 0 0 136 17th
2014 Ralph Firman Racing-Duratec MSV F4-013 Rahul Raj Mayer 24 0 0 0 0 223 12th N/A
Gustavo Lima 18 1 0 0 1 194 14th
Alfredo Zabalza 20 0 0 0 0 124 17th
2015 Ralph Firman Racing-Duratec MSV F4-013 Ameya Vaidyanathan 24 0 0 0 3 217 12th N/A
Al Faisal Al Zubair 18 0 0 0 1 189 16th
Hernán Fallas 18 0 0 0 0 103 19th
Sebastian Lanzetti 9 0 0 0 1 89 20th
Riki Christodoulou 3 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
2015 (AT) Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Struan Moore 3 0 0 0 1 45 7th N/A
Ameya Vaidyanathan 4 0 0 0 0 40 8th
2016 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Ali Al Khalifa 3 0 0 0 0 5 29th N/A
2017 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Chase Owen 24 0 0 1 1 302 7th N/A
Nick Worm 20 0 0 0 0 159 15th
2018 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Sasakorn Chaimongkol 23 0 0 0 2 242 9th N/A
Jusuf Owega 20 0 0 0 0 187 11th
Ben Hurst 23 0 0 0 1 137 16th
2019 Tatuus-Cosworth F4-016 Sasakorn Chaimongkol 24 1 0 1 2 314 8th N/A
Nicolás Varrone 9 1 0 0 2 109 17th
2020 Tatuus-Cosworth BF3-020 Sasakorn Chaimongkol 24 0 0 0 1 318 7th N/A
Oliver Clarke 24 0 0 0 2 310 8th
2021 Tatuus-Cosworth BF3-020 Jonathan Browne 9 0 0 0 1 83 19th 8th
Flynn Jackes 3 0 0 0 0 6 28th
2022 Tatuus- Cosworth MSV-022 Nick Gilkes 23 1 0 0 2 165.5 14th 9th
2023 Tatuus-Cosworth MSV-022 Gerrard Xie 22 1 0 1 1 128 20th 9th
Daniel Mavlyutov 23 4 0 0 4 116 22nd
2024 Tatuus-Cosworth MSV-022 Aditya Kulkarni 23 0 0 0 0 111 19th 8th
Marcus Luzio 6 0 0 0 0 17 30th
2025 Tatuus- Cosworth MSV-025 Lucas Fluxá 24 1 0 0 1 258 8th 4th
Freddie Slater 9 3 2 4 5 203 12th
Kanato Le 9 1 1 0 3 145 14th
Yuanpu Cui 15 0 0 0 0 122 18th
Hiyu Yamakoshi 9 0 0 0 0 121 19th
Michael Shin 3 0 0 0 1 40 24th
Maxim Rehm 3 1 0 0 1 0 NC
Newman Chi 3 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2026 Tatuus- Cosworth MSV-2026 Dante Vinci
Peter Bouzinelos
Aurelia Nobels

† Cui and Fluxá also drove for Argenti with Prema.

GB4 Championship

Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.
2022 Tatuus F4-T014 Max Marzorati 24 0 2 2 10 482 3rd N/A
Megan Gilkes 24 2 1 3 3 375 6th
Marcus Short 3 0 0 0 0 39 16th
Oliver Clarke 3 0 0 0 1 35 17th
2025 Tatuus MSV GB4-025 Daniel Guinchard 21 2 2 3 8 391 3rd 2nd
Leandro Juncos 21 1 0 0 4 269 5th
Flame Airikkala† 12 0 0 0 0 34 28th
2026 Tatuus MSV GB4-025 Demitri Nolan
Enzo Hallman
Connor Willis

† Airikkala drove for Pace Performance until round 5.

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