Bo'ness Hill Climb is a hillclimbing

Hillclimbing in the British Isles

Hillclimbing in the British Isles differs from the style of hillclimb events staged in many other parts of the world, in that courses are generally short — mostly under one mile in length — and this means that cars and drivers do not generally cross between British events and the...

 course near Bo'ness

Bo'ness

Bo'ness, properly Borrowstounness, is a coastal town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on a hillside on the south bank of the Firth of Forth within the Falkirk council area, north-west of Edinburgh and east of Falkirk. At the 2001 census, Bo'ness had a resident population of 13,961...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, sometimes referred to as Kinneil Hill Climb. In March 1947 Motor Sport reported: "Kinneil hill at Bo'ness will provide an 880-yard course, having been lengthened by 140 yds." The first round of the inaugural series of the British Hill Climb Championship

British Hill Climb Championship

The British Hill Climb Championship is the most prestigious Hillclimbing championship in Great Britain. Hillclimbing in the British Isles has a rich history and this event has been held every year since 1947.All British Champions have been British...

 was staged at Bo'ness on May 17, 1947.

On the evening of June 29, 1953, the BBC organised a special televised event with an 'England versus Scotland' format. Competitors ran in matched pairs with two points for a win and three where the class record was broken. The final score was England 26, Scotland 16. Ken Wharton

Ken Wharton

Kenneth Wharton was a British racing driver from England. He began competing in the new National 500cc Formula in his own special, later acquiring a Cooper. Ken participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1952 and scored a total of 3 championship points...

 broke the absolute hill record in 33.61 seconds, "but it was not felt that these could be accepted as 'official' times."

In 2007 a Revival Club was formed with a view of running speed hill climbing again at Bo'ness. In 2008 the first Revival meeting was run and has also run 2009 and 2010.

Bo'ness Hill Climb past winners

Year	Driver	Vehicle	Time	Notes
1934	A.K.B.Clarkson	Ford V8	36.25 sec	June 23.
1935	R. Alexander	Ford V8	34.0 sec	July 6.
1936	I.O.K. Stuart	Squire	35.5 sec
	S. Weston	M.G.-PB	45.0 sec	Described as a speed trial.
1937	T.W. Meikle	Frazer-Nash	38.5 sec
1938	H. Soutar	Bugatti	36.8 sec	May 15.
1939	G.J.W. Moncrieff	Riley	33.8 sec	May 13.
1946	N.A. Bean	Jaguar	40.0 sec	May 11.
	Leslie Johnson Leslie Johnson Leslie George Johnson was a British racing driver who competed in rallies, hill climbs, sports car races and Grand Prix races.-Overview:...	Darracq 3,996 c.c.	40.5 sec	Sept 7, wet, course extended 80 yds.
1947	George Abecassis George Abecassis George Edgar Abecassis DFC was an English racing driver, and co-founder of the HWM Formula One team.-Pre-1946 career:...	Bugatti 3.3	38.2 sec R	May 17.
	M. R. Chassels	Frazer-Nash 1,496 c.c.	41.9 sec
	Sydney Allard Sydney Allard Sydney Herbert Allard was the founder of the Allard car company and a successful racing motorist. He was remarkable in that he achieved sporting success in cars of his own manufacture....	Steyr-Allard	41.70 sec	Sept 20.
1948	Bob Gerard	E.R.A.	36.3 sec R	June 26.
	K.N. Hutchison	Alfa Romeo	37.4 sec	Sept 18.
1949	Dennis Poore Dennis Poore Roger Dennistoun "Dennis" Poore was a British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver,. Poore used his personal weath to bankroll the founding, in 1950, of the motor racing journal Autosport. He himself was a keen motor sport participant, and competed in two Formula One World...	Alfa Romeo	33.9 sec R	June 25.
				Sept 17.
1950	Ken Wharton Ken Wharton Kenneth Wharton was a British racing driver from England. He began competing in the new National 500cc Formula in his own special, later acquiring a Cooper. Ken participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1952 and scored a total of 3 championship points...	Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...  996 c.c.	38.41 sec	June 24.
	M. R. Chassels	Chassels Special 3,917 c.c.	39.07 sec	Sept 30.
1951	Ken Wharton	Cooper Cooper Car Company The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...  1,000 c.c. s/c	34.60 sec	June 30.
	Jack Walton	Frazer-Nash	38.28 sec	Sept 29.
1952	Ken Wharton	Cooper	34.50 sec	June 28.
1953	Ron Flockhart	ERA R4D ERA R4D ERA R4D, built by English Racing Automobiles, is the last development of this classic voiturette racing car, the only D-Type ever built. Originating as R4B in 1935, the car was rebuilt as a C-Type by modifying the front end of the chassis frame to accommodate independent Porsche-type torsion bar...	33.82 sec R	June 28.
	Ken Wharton	Cooper	33.61 sec	June 29; evening meeting.
1954	Ken Wharton	Cooper 996 c.c. s/c	33.76 sec	June 26.
	P.S. Hughes	Tojeiro	38.51 sec	Sept 11.
1955-1958 No events.
1959	Jim Clark Jim Clark James "Jim" Clark, Jr OBE was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965....	Lister-Jaguar	34.1 sec	July 11.
1960	David Boshier-Jones	Cooper JAP	32.80 sec	June 25.
1961	David Good David Good David Good is a former British Hill Climb Champion. In 1961 he won the qualifying rounds at Westbrook Hay and Wiscombe Park, driving a Cooper-JAP Mk 8, and clinched the title with a third place at Prescott in September...	Cooper JAP Mk8	33.07 sec	June 24.
1962				June 23.
1963	Tony Marsh Tony Marsh (racing driver) Anthony Ernest "Tony" Marsh was a British racing driver from England. His Formula One career was short and unsuccessful, but he enjoyed great success in hillclimbing, winning the British Hill Climb Championship on a record six occasions.Having begun his hillclimbing career in 1953 with a...	B.R.M. 2.5-litre	31.16 sec	June 22.
1964				June 20.

Key: R = Course Record.

See also

• Fintray Hillclimb
  Fintray hillclimb
  Fintray House Hillclimb is a speed motorsport event held near Hatton of Fintray, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Each event is a separate round of the Scottish Hillclimb Championship. The venue is a working farm for the majority of the year but Grampian Automobile Club stage two, two-day events each...
  
  

• Forrestburn Hillclimb
  Forrestburn Hillclimb
  Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb track near Kirk o' Shotts in North Lanarkshire, central Scotland. The track opened in 1993, and was the first purpose-built hillclimb track in the United Kingdom to be completed since Brooklands in the 1930s...
  
  

• Rest and Be Thankful Speed Hill Climb
  Rest and Be Thankful Speed Hill Climb
  Rest and Be Thankful Hill Climb is a defunct hillclimbing course in Glen Croe, Argyll, Scotland. The first known use of the road for a hillclimb was in 1906...
  
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External links

• Bo'ness Hill Climb Revival: http://www.bonesshillclimb.org.uk/