Bouley Bay Hill Climb
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Bouley Bay is a speed Hill Climb venue in Trinity
Trinity, Jersey
Trinity is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is in the north east of the island.Trinity has the reputation of being the most rural of Jersey's parishes, being the third-largest parish by surface area with the third-smallest population. The parish covers 6,817 vergées...

, Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...

, organised by The Jersey Motor Cycle and Light Car Club. The course on Les Charrières du Boulay was "first used for competition in 1921" and since 1947 has hosted a round (latterly two rounds) 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...

. Bouley Bay and Val des Terres
Val des Terres Hill Climb
The Val des Terres Hill Climb is a hillclimbing competition held in St Peter Port, Guernsey. The course is 850 yards in length. The track has hosted a round of the British Hill Climb Championship....

 hill climb in Guernsey
Guernsey
Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...

 are normally held in July and provide a two-stop tour for UK drivers contesting the series.

Of the 1947 event Raymond Mays
Raymond Mays
Thomas Raymond Mays CBE was an auto racing driver and entrepreneur from Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.He attended Oundle School, where he met Amherst Villiers, leaving at the end of 1917. After army service in the Grenadier Guards in France, he attended Christ's College, Cambridge...

 said: "My E.R.A.'s time counted as a record because, although it was slower than the figure set the previous year by Bainbridge's 1½-litre E.R.A., the 1947 climb was run for the first time from a standing start."

The 2008 meeting included rounds 17 and 18 of the British Hill Climb Championship, both being won by Scott Moran
Scott Moran
Scott Moran is a British hillclimb driver, based in Ludlow, Shropshire,. He is the reigning British Hill Climb Champion. Scott has won the British Hill Climb Championship three times driving the Gould GR61X he shares with his father, 1997 British Champion Roger Moran...

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Bouley Bay Hill Climb past winners

Year Driver Vehicle Time Notes
1946 G. Bainbridge E.R.A. 55.9 sec
1947 Raymond Mays
Raymond Mays
Thomas Raymond Mays CBE was an auto racing driver and entrepreneur from Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.He attended Oundle School, where he met Amherst Villiers, leaving at the end of 1917. After army service in the Grenadier Guards in France, he attended Christ's College, Cambridge...

E.R.A. 59.8 sec R 24 July.
1948 Joe Fry
Joe Fry
Joe Fry was a British racing driver and distant member of the Fry's Chocolate family....

Freikaiserwagen 59.2 sec 15 July, joint fastest.
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
1949 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 55.6 sec 21 July. Course reduced 50 yards.
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 998 c.c. 55.4 sec
1951 Ken Wharton Cooper 998 c.c. s/c 54.2 sec R 26 July.
1952 Ken Wharton Cooper 998 c.c. s/c 55.4 sec
1953 Ken Wharton Cooper-J.A.P. 52.8 sec R 23 July.
1954 Ken Wharton Cooper 996 s/c 53.6 sec Thurs 22 July.
1955 Ken Wharton Cooper 996 s/c 53.0 sec 21 July; 1,011 yards.
1956 Ken Wharton Cooper 1,100 c.c. 52.6 sec R
1957 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...

Cooper-J.A.P. 1,098 c.c. 53.3 sec
1958 David Boshier-Jones
David Boshier-Jones
David Boshier-Jones is a British racing driver, whose career ran from 1952 until his retirement in 1961. He competed both in circuit racing and in hillclimbs, achieving success in both disciplines but particularly on the hills, where he claimed three successive British Hill Climb Championships, in...

Cooper-J.A.P. 53.82 sec
1959 David Boshier-Jones Cooper-J.A.P. 51.00 sec
1960 David Boshier-Jones Cooper 1,098 c.c. 50.84 sec R Rain led to abandonment.
1961 Mac Daghorn Cooper-J.A.P. 51.75 sec Oil on course led to abandonment.
1962 Tico Martini
Martini (cars)
Martini Cars is a constructor of Formula racing cars from France, founded by Renato "Tico" Martini in 1965, when Martini and partner Bill Knight founded the Winfield Racing School at the Magny-Cours circuit...

Martini-Special 650 c.c. 50.63 sec R 26 July.
1963 25 July.
1964 23 July.
1965 Tony Marsh Marsh-Special R 22 July.
1966 Tony Marsh Marsh-GM 50.21 sec
1967 Round 7
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...

 :Tony Marsh
Marsh Special 45.26 sec
1968
1969 Mike MacDowel
Mike MacDowel
Michael George Hartwell MacDowel is a former racing driver from England. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1957 French Grand Prix on 7 July 1957, sharing his car with Jack Brabham...

Brabham BT30X-Climax V8 45.61 sec
1970 David Hepworth
David Hepworth (racing driver)
David Hepworth was a British racing driver, who won the British Hill Climb Championship twice, in 1969 and 1971.In the early-mid 1960s Hepworth drove an Austin-Healey 3000 fitted with a Chevrolet engine in both rallies and circuit racing, but by 1968 he was driving a Hepworth-Oldsmobile; in this he...

Hepworth FF FTD Oct. Postponed due to dock strike.
1971
1972 Sir N. Williamson March 712S-Hart 2.0-litre 43.15 sec R
1973 Mike MacDowel Brabham BT36X-Repco 5-litre 43.09 sec R
1974 Chris Cramer
1975 Roy Lane
1976 Sir Nicholas Williamson March 741 DFV 3.0-litre 42.12 sec R
1977 Alister Douglas-Osborn Pilbeam R22 3.0-litre 42.48 sec
1987 Round 9
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...

 : Martyn Griffiths
Martyn Griffiths
Martyn Griffiths is a British racing driver, whose greatest success has been in hillclimbing. He has won the British Hill Climb Championship on five occasions .-References:...

Pilbeam MP53-Hart 2.8-litre 40.30 sec 23 July.
1995 Round 10
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...

 : Andy Priaulx
Andy Priaulx
Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE is a British racing driver from Guernsey. He is a European Touring Car Championship champion, three times World Touring Car Championship champion and the only FIA Touring Car champion to win an International level championship for four consecutive years...

Pilbeam MP58/03-Ford DFL 4-litre 38.65 sec R
1996 Round 10
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...

 : Roger Moran
Roger Moran
Roger Moran is a British hillclimb driver, who won the British Hillclimb Championship in 1997. In recent years he has shared a car with his son Scott.-References:...

Pilbeam MP72/3-Judd EV 3.5-litre 39.64 sec 18 July.
2008
2008 British Hill Climb Championship season
The 2008 Nicholson McLaren Engines British Hill Climb Championship season was the 62nd British Hill Climb Championship season. It was the last year in which Nicholson McLaren sponsored the championship, as MCL Motorhomes took over the championship sponsorship for 2009. The series was contested...

Round 17
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...

 : Scott Moran
Scott Moran
Scott Moran is a British hillclimb driver, based in Ludlow, Shropshire,. He is the reigning British Hill Climb Champion. Scott has won the British Hill Climb Championship three times driving the Gould GR61X he shares with his father, 1997 British Champion Roger Moran...

Gould
Gould Racing
Gould Racing is a British motorsport company, specialising in racing car manufacture and engineering. The company is run by David Gould, and is based in Newbury, Berkshire, England....

-GR61
38.82 sec 17 July.
Round 18
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...

 : Scott Moran
Gould-GR61 38.77 sec
2009 Round 19
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...

 : Roger Moran
Gould
Gould Racing
Gould Racing is a British motorsport company, specialising in racing car manufacture and engineering. The company is run by David Gould, and is based in Newbury, Berkshire, England....

-NME GR61X 3.5-litre
38.37 sec 16 July.
Round 20
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...

: Scott Moran
Gould-NME GR61X 3.5-litre 39.44 sec


Key: R = Course Record; FTD = Fastest Time of the Day.

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