STILL ON AN UPWARD SLOPE
“What we’ve always tried to do along the way is to make Hillspeed the team and the operation that we would select to drive for if we had our time again, in terms of how the cars are maintained, how the cars are presented and all aspects of how the business operates.”
Those are the words of team principal Richard Ollerenshaw, who details a number of factors for Hillspeed not only surviving but thriving as it celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020. In that half-century, it has become a prominent fixture in national motorsport, predominantly in single-seaters but also further afield.
Hillspeed – appropriately named, as the initial workshop was in Hill Top on the outskirts of Sheffield, and the team is now based in Derbyshire’s Peak District – was founded when Ollerenshaw’s father Morgan raced a Special Saloon Mini in the early to mid-1970s. After a layoff lasting a decade, Ollerenshaw Sr returned to racing in Formula Ford 2000, while his son attended the Jim Russell Racing School in a bid to begin racing himself. Ollerenshaw Jr set his sights on the inaugural
