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The national racing team celebrating a golden anniversary

After numerous successes in single-seaters and tin-tops over a 50-year period, the family-run Hillspeed team of Richard and father Morgan Ollerenshaw is still going strong

Stefan Mackley Apr 21, 2020, 3:07 PM

"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.

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Author Stefan Mackley

A proud Yorkshireman, Stefan Mackley is Autosport's National Deputy Editor. Having graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a degree in sports journalism he spent nearly four years working on local newspapers in Wiltshire - during which time he became an NQJ-qualified journalist and cut his teeth covering club racing at Castle Combe in his spare time.

Making the jump into motorsport journalism full-time, he joined the national desk for both Autosport magazine and Motorsport News in 2017 before becoming National Deputy Editor for the former in 2020.

His passion for motorsport stems from watching Formula 1 as a child with his father and is matched only by his love for Star Wars.

A better journalist than racing driver, he has so far competed in the Citroen C1 24 Hours and 116 Trophy with hopes of racing more machinery in 2021 and beyond.