The team was founded in 1970 as
Hill Speed Racing to support Morgan Ollerenshaw's entry in
1970 season of the British Saloon Car Championship, now known as
British Touring Car Championship. It is possible that the team is named after Hill Top (located at the outskirts of
Sheffield), where the team was formerly based. According to an
Autosport article in 2020, the team has become a "promine fixture" in United Kingdom motorsport after 50 years of existence. Alfredo Zabalza, Gustavo Lima were signed for the team in the
2014 season.
Riki Christodoulou and Hernán Fallas also drove for the team for a part-time basis. In the
2016 season, when the BRDC F4 was renamed to BRDC F3, Hillspeed signed Bahraini driver Ali Al Khalifa for a part-time entry. For the
2017 season, Hillspeed entered into cooperation with Cliff Dempsey Racing. The cooperated entry signed three drivers: Chase Owen,
Jordan Cane and Nick Worm. Later, Jordan Cane moved to Douglas Motorsport without driving for Hillspeed. Hillspeed signed Ben Hurst, Sasakorn Chaimongkol and
Jusuf Owega for the
2018 season. In
2019, the team reduced to a two-car entry, as Sasakorn Chaimongkol remained with the team and
Nicolás Varrone drove for the team in selected rounds. For the
2020 season, Sasakorn Chaimongkol stayed with Hillspeed for his third BRDC F3 season. The team signed Oliver Clarke for the second car.
Jonathan Browne and Flynn Jackes drove for the team for a part-time basis in
2021, when the BRDC F3 was renamed to GB3 Championship.
2022 saw the team field only one car for
Canadian driver
Nick Gilkes. In
2023, the team partnered with
Hitech Grand Prix to field two Hitech GP Academy drivers:
Gerrard Xie and
Daniel Mavlyutov. Hillspeed signed
Indian driver Aditya Kulkarni for the team's only full-time entry in the
2024 season. Later, they added Marcus Luzio for their GB3 squad for selected rounds. The team entered
2025 without any full-time entry, instead, Hillspeed's 2025 GB3 squad consisted of multiple part-time entries:
Freddie Slater,
Kanato Le,
Hiyu Yamakoshi,
Michael Shin,
Yuanpu Cui,
Lucas Fluxá,
Newman Chi and
Maxim Rehm. In
2026, the team signed Dante Vinci, Peter Bouzinelos and
Aurelia Nobels.
GB4 Championship In 2021, the team was announced to join
GB4 Championship and became the first team to commit to participate in the 2022 season. In 2025, the team returned to
GB4 after two-year absent. Hillspeed finished second in the teams' standing.
Other series The team won the
2010 Formula Renault BARC season with
Alice Powell as well as back-to-back
Ginetta Junior championships in 2010 and 2011. The team also formerly competed in ARP Formula 3 Championship, later known as
MotorSport Vision Formula 3 Cup. ==Current series results==