Nicholson McLaren MSA British Hill Climb Championship

Rounds 29 & 30: Prescott, September 5 Eynon Price stormed to the first Nicholson McLaren MSA British Hill Climb Championship victory of his career at Prescott.The Welsh former rally driver took advantage of wet conditions to triumph in the first run-off ahead of Trevor Willis, before taking fourth place in the second run-off to move up to tenth place in the championship standings.Championship protagonist Scott Moran endured a mediocre day and, though unable to capitalise with victory, Martin Groves has pulled 20 points clear at the top of the standings.Results - Round 291 Eynon Price (1.6 Force-Suzuki PC) 44.89s2 Trevor Willis (2.8 OMS-Powertec) 45.45s3 Rob Turnbull (3.5 Gould-Cosworth HB GR55) 45.46s4 Martin Groves (3.5 Gould-NME GR55) 45.84s5 Roger Moran (3.5 Gould-NME GR61X) 45.92s6 Steve Owen (1.6 OMS-Suzuki 25) 46.73s7 Deryk Young (4.0 Gould-Judd GR51) 47.21s8 Will Hall (1.6 Force-Suzuki PC) 47.23s9 Chris Merrick (4.0 Gould-Judd GR55) 47.75s10 Mike Manning (2.0t Ford Puma 4WD) 49.30s11 Tom New (4.0 Gould-Judd GR55) 50.45sDNF Oliver Tomlin (4.0 Pilbeam-Judd EV MP97) FailResults - Round 301 Willis 40.25s Fastest Time of the Day2 Groves 40.47s3 Richard Spedding (1.6 Force-Suzuki PC) 40.86s4 Price 41.10s5 Turnbull 41.55s6 Roger Moran 41.71s7 Hall 41.96s8 John Bradburn (3.5 Gould-Cosworth HB GR55) 42.95s9 Paul Ranson (3.5 Gould-NME GR55) 43.15s10 Merrick 43.21s11 Owen 43.34sDNF Lee Adams (1.6 GWR-Suzuki Raptor) FailRounds 31 & 32: Doune, September 19

Championship positions (provisional) after Round 30 1 Martin Groves – 230 points2 Scott Moran – 2103Roger Moran – 182= Trevor Willis 1825 Merrick – 1296 Tom New – 108= Paul Ranson – 108


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