Hillspeed is a British

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team, based in

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. The team currently participates in the

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and the GB4 Championship. Notable past drivers for the team include Alice Powell,

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, Rahul Raj Mayer, Seb Morris, Al Faisal Al Zubair, Jusuf Owega, Jonathan Browne, Nick Gilkes, Gerrard Xie and Daniel Mavlyutov.

History

The team was founded in 1970. 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. They joined the BRDC British Formula 4 Championship (now

) when it was founded in

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. According to an

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article in 2020, the team has become a "promine fixture" in United Kingdom motorsport after 50 years of existence. In 2021, the team was announced to join GB4 Championship and became the first team to commit to participate in the 2022 season. In 2023, the team partnered with

Hitech Grand Prix Hitech Grand Prix (formerly Hitech Racing, currently racing as Hitech TGR for sponsorship reasons) is a British motor racing team. It was founded by Dennis Rushen and David Hayle in 2002 and relaunched by Oliver Oakes in 2015. Currently, Hite ...

to field two Hitech GP Academy drivers in

. In 2025, the team returned to GB4 after two-year absent. The team also entered into cooperation with newly-formed, Formula Regional-level AU3 Championship's organiser. The team was announced to offer the AU3 Championship winner a fully-funded GB3 multi-day test program.

Current series results

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

GB4 Championship

References

External links

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