Martin Groves

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Martin Groves is a British hillclimb driver, who won the British Hill Climb Championship in 2005, 2006 and 2007. With an older car he had won only one round of the BHCC in 2004 (at Bouley Bay), but in 2005 he was exceptionally quick in his new Gould GR55, clinching the championship at Craigantlet in early August having finished first or second in every one of the 28 BHCC rounds up to that point. He retained the title in 2006, after fending off a strong challenge from Scott Moran.

Also in 2006, Groves drove a Gould (though a 2.8-litre car rather than his usual larger-capacity machine) at Bathurst in the Australian Hillclimb Championship, dipping well inside the hill record.^[1]

In 2007 Groves became the first man to dip under 23 seconds at Shelsley Walsh, when he recorded 22.86 seconds on 3 June.^[2] However, he lost the record to Scott Moran later that same day.^[3] At the final meeting of the 2007 Championship, at Shelsley Walsh on 7 October, Groves secured a hat-trick of titles when he won the first run-off, regaining the outright record in the process with a time of 22.81 seconds.^[4]

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