There are/were two brilliant Hillclimb and Sprint drivers both from Warwick, that are in a different league altogether.
https://youtu.be/HhoJ7Vmiqng

A chap called Roy Lane was the British Hillclimb Champion in 1975, 1976, 1992 and 1996.
While I was working at C.H.Soans and Sons 1968 – 1970 he often used to bring the Hillclimb car in for a steering geometry setup as Soans had one of the best projector systems in the area. (Nowadays its laser)
I believe he held the outright record at Curborough, near Lichfield, from 1996 till 7-2009, the course where I had my very first Sprint.

Sadly Roy died in 2009.

Video of Roy Lane at 1.36sec in 1999.
https://youtu.be/9x9tyJwP_x0

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The second is Jos Goodyear from Warwick who drives a rapid GWR Hayabusa engined Raptor and here is a youtube video that has not been sped up.
https://youtu.be/9kufacVXlSc?t=72

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David Wishart Hobbs is a British former racing driver.
Borne on 9 JUNE 1939 in Leamington Spa
He worked as a commentator from the mid 1970s for CBS until 1996, Speed from 1996 to 2012 and NBC from 2013 to 2017. In 1969 Hobbs was included in the FIA list of graded drivers, a group of 27 drivers who by their achievements were rated the best in the world.

From Maclaren website – Drivers
A likeable and enormously versatile driver, Hobbs could turn his hand to anything from F1™ to sports cars and from touring cars to Indianapolis machines. He cut his racing teeth in the mid-sixties maelstrom of frenzied activity on the UK club racing scene, dabbling in Formula Junior, F2 and endurance racing in machines as diverse as the Team Surtees LoLa T70-Chevy GT and the JW Gulf Racing Ford GT40s.

In F1™ he briefly tried his hand in privateer Bernard White’s 2-litre BRM P261 and also had an outing in one of the Honda V12s as a second entry alongside John Surtees. In 1971 he gained his first Championship success when he won the US Formula 5000 title at the wheel of a McLaren M10B-Chevy fielded by Cark Hogan’s  team.

In 1971 he was invited to drive the works-prepared McLaren M19A fielded by the Penske team in the US GP at Watkins Glen where he finished a disappointing 10th one race after Mark Dononhue had driven it to third place in the Canadian race at Mosport Park.

Hobbs remained on the fringes of the McLaren family for a few more years yet. In 1974 got a couple of drives in the works Yardley McLaren M23 in the Austrian and Italian GPs. He had been drafted in to replace Mike Hailwood who had suffered serious leg injuries in a shunt during that year’s German GP at Nurburing, but Hobbs was frustrated in that the two tracks on which he was given this opportunity – Osterreichring and Monza – were both venues where he lacked recent experience.

“I was also frustrated by the fact that Henri Pescarolo, the French F1 driver, spent much of my Austrian GP practice session lurking in the back of the McLaren garage muttering ‘I am quicker than ‘Obbs’ which may well have been the case, although I was damned if I was going to give him the opportunity to demonstrate it,” he recalled many years later.

The 1974 season also saw Hobbs deliver his best result at the Indianapolis 500, driving a Carling Black Label-backed McLaren-Offenhauser to fifth place in the race which saw Johnny Rutherford score the first of his two works McLaren victories in the classic American event. Now retired, he has a prosperous car dealership near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has for many years made his home in the USA.

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Christian Edward Johnston Horner OBE 2013

Born on 16 November 1973 went to school at Arnold Lodge in Leamington and then Warwick School and lived in Bishop’s Itchington.
He started his racing career in karts.
Horner’s career in car racing started after he won a Formula Renault scholarship in 1991. He competed in the 1992 British Formula Renault Championship with Manor Motorsport, finishing that season as a race winner and the highest-placed rookie.

Retiring from competitive driving at the age of 25 and moving to team management.

In November 2004 the Austrian energy drink company, Red Bull, purchased the Jaguar F1 Team, which became Red Bull Racing.
In January 2005, Horner was appointed to head the team, becoming the youngest team principal at the time.
Despite being appointed only eight weeks before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, the team got off to a good start under his stewardship, with drivers David Coulthard and Christian Klien finishing fourth and seventh in Australia, and they went on to score a total of 34 points for the team compared to the nine taken by Jaguar the previous year.

He also played a key role in recruiting Adrian Newey, who was announced as the team’s chief technical officer in November 2005.

Cristian Horner married Gerri Halliwell on 15 May 2015 (Ginger Spice, Spice Girls all-girl pop group formed in 1994)

2021 Still with Red Bull, and have had Aston Martin as their Sponsor since 2018.

He currently, has a farm at Marston St Lawrence near Banbury, Oxfordshire, along with some other properties.

Adrian Martin Newey, OBE is a British Formula One engineer.
Currently working as Chief technology officer for Red Bull
Although from Stratford upon Avon, he took an OND course at Warwickshire College of Further Education in Leamington Spa and raced a Kart at Shenington Airfield.