Sprinting is a motorsport discipline which comes under the heading of Speed Events, a name given to Speed Hillclimbing and Sprinting. Speed Hillclimbing (usually referred to simply as Hillclimbing) is the sport of racing a car from a standing start along ribbon of tarmac to a finish point which is higher than the start - hence 'hillclimb'. Sprinting is virtually the same sport except that the courses are usually much wider and generally flat.  The added width of the sprint course gives much faster speeds, although sometimes artificial bends are added to allow the less powerful cars to challenge the might of the single seaters. This highly precise activity sees a variety of machines from standard production street-legal cars and sports cars through modified and highly modified vehicles through to the most powerful and fastest singles seater racing cars.  Competition comes from each car completing the course one at a time against the clock, the whole is timed to the nearest 100th of a second and many events have been won and lost by that very margin. Most competitors will split their season between the two disciplines because, with just minor changes, the car is suited to both.

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