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    Shelsley Walsh is a small village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, on the western side of the River Teme. For administrative purposes it is...
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    The Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire, England, organised by the Midland Automobile Club (MAC). It is one...
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    raced the car at the International Shelsley Walsh - England’s foremost Speed Hill-Climb. Zborowski designed and built four of his own racing cars in the...
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  • an American host. His commentating career began when he was 20 at the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in the UK. It led to hosting the 1995 Goodwood Festival...
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  • one outright hill records, and became the first driver to complete the Shelsley Walsh course in under 24 seconds. However, his main rival, Graeme Wight...
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    Class Record in 1931 and 1932, and the outright Shelsley Walsh Sports Car Record in the latter year. Car production seems to have finished in 1935. Noel...
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    France, took place as long ago as 31 January 1897. The hillclimb held at Shelsley Walsh, in Worcestershire, England, is the world's oldest continuously staged...
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    to drive the car, but he gave up during practice after exhausting himself. In June 1932, Jean Bugatti rolled a Type 53 at the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill...
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    Brooklands, Shelsley Walsh, Prescott, Brands Hatch, Loton Park and Bicester Heritage. Competitive Navigation Rallies, open to all pre-war cars, included...
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  • Mike MacDowel (category British Touring Car Championship drivers)
    well after his 60th birthday. He set what was then the course record at Shelsley Walsh in 1973 (28.21 seconds for the 1000 yard course); further in both...
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    at Shelsley Walsh, racing there in the early 1920s with a pair of Brescia Bugattis, known as 'Cordon Bleu' and 'Cordon Rouge'. He developed his cars with...
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    100 c.c. records at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in 41.52 and 42.58 seconds respectively. Fry finished second in class, for racing cars up to 1,100 c.c., in...
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    period parts. Spider was an extremely successful sprint car and held the outright record at Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb several times in the 1920s. A...
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  • first appearance since the 2006 crash at the Bromyard Speed Festival at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in August 2021. In January 2022, DriveTribe published...
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  • David Brown (entrepreneur) (category Sports car racing team owners)
    consent of Villiers, Brown modified a Vauxhall which then won its class at Shelsley Walsh for three consecutive years. It was said to be capable of more than...
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  • Hill Climb Championship. Doune Gurston Down Harewood Loton Park Prescott Shelsley Walsh Wiscombe Park Bouley Bay Craigantlet Val des Terres A number of other...
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    powered car; second (Greg Tracy), third (Hiroshi Masuoka) and fourth (Nobuhiro Tajima) places overall were taken by electric cars. In 2015, electric cars placed...
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    Frazer Nash (category Sports car manufacturers)
    of sports cars badged Frazer Nash incorporating a unique multi-chain transmission. It continued after the war making another 85 sports cars before ending...
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  • Pomeroy-which speaks for itself. A stall will be occupied by the Club at the next Shelsley Walsh hill-climb, and its magazine "Iota" will be on sale there." The name...
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  • uk Best of British at Shelsley Walsh - Sunday June 6, 2021 on YouTube British Hillclimb Championship Round 8 results Lothian Car Club/Doune Hillclimb website...
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  • Erwood Park until 1958. 22 hp 1904–1908 40 hp 1905–1910 15 hp 1909–1915 Shelsley sports 1909–1915 20/25 1909–1919 25/30 1918–1925 19.6 hp 1921–1926 14 hp...
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    Grand Prix Sunbeams 1921, 1922 TT (category Grand Prix cars)
    were entered in Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in September; this bringing the racing activities of these cars for 1921 to a close. The four cars were modified...
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    Rover-BRM (category Cars powered by gas turbines)
    Road. During 2022 the car has been on display at Thirlestane Castle, Shelsley Walsh and Goodwood Revival. Chrysler Turbine Car General Motors Firebird...
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  • speed hill climbs in 1946. Notable results included: First and second, Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb International meeting 1 June; Talbot-Lago T150C...
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    Shropshire (1475 yd / 1349 m) Prescott, Gloucestershire (1127 yd / 1031 m) Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire (1000 yd / 914 m) Val des Terres, Guernsey (850 yd...
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    Vauxhall 30-98 (category Cars introduced in 1913)
    competitor Joseph Higginson, inventor of the Autovac fuel lifter. He won the Shelsley Walsh hill-climb motoring competition on 7 June 1913 in his new Vauxhall...
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  • record. In 2007 Groves became the first man to dip under 23 seconds at Shelsley Walsh, when he recorded 22.86 seconds on 3 June. However, he lost the record...
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  • Razor Blade (category Land speed record cars)
    Martin Razor Blade team car was built in 1923 to break the one-hour light car record of 101.39 mph (163.17 km/h) held by AC Cars. Although it failed to...
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  • were undertaken at Gransden Lodge and Shelsley Walsh. Later in 1946, he competed in his Delage 158L (a 1927 GP car) in the Albi Grand Prix and the Grand...
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    the youngest being nearly seventy years old. The cars are particularly associated with the Shelsley Walsh hillclimb thanks in large part to Mays, who...
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