The nice and good of historic racing will descend on Goodwood Motor Circuit this weekend for its first main occasion of the yr.
Throughout a packed schedule of races and demonstrations, that includes vehicles (and bikes) that cater to each style, the Members’ Assembly guarantees an excellent spectacle on the traditional West Sussex venue.
Listed here are Autosport’s high picks for what to observe forward of the large occasion.
1. Can-Am thunder forecast
Oliver might be reunited with the Shadow DN4 wherein he received the 1974 Can-Am title
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The Canadian-American Problem Sequence – identified universally as Can-Am – was a no-holds-barred big-buck sportscar championship that reigned from 1966 till 1974. John Surtees received the inaugural title in his Lola T70 Spyder. 4 years of McLaren domination adopted – poignantly with Bruce McLaren himself and fellow Kiwi Denny Hulme – earlier than Porsche and Shadow prevailed.
Lola T70s pepper Sunday’s Surtees Trophy prototype encounter, however vital later vehicles are corralled in every day Can-Am demos. The Hepworth crew’s thuggish BRM-Chevrolet P154 and P167, Ferrari 712P, Lola T160 and T222, March 717, McLaren M6Bs, M8s and M20, plus a pair of Porsche 917/30s retrace historical past, however the Shadows will wow onlookers.
Not beforehand seen collectively in Britain, Don Nichols’s AVS vehicles – from the wacky 1969 Mk1s to the last word DN4 of 1974 – have been shipped from the US by Jim Bartel and Kirt Bennett to be fielded by Kyle Tilley of ERA Motorsport, primarily based in Indianapolis and Wiltshire. Fifty years after he received the ultimate pukka Can-Am crown, Jackie Oliver drives his DN4, whereas Tom Kristensen samples its evolution.
2. Group 1 touring vehicles on the Spice route
Darren Turner and Mike Whittaker are among the many hordes of Capri drivers searching for to honour Gordon Spice within the race that bears his identify
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Rumbling V8 Chevrolet Camaro, Ford Boss Mustangs and Rover SD1s, and wailing Ford Capri V6s go head-to-head within the two-part Group 1 fest, remembering seemingly omnipresent Blue Oval rep Gordon Spice. Saturday night’s 45-minute double-driver ‘pro-am’ pitches star drivers and homeowners into battle. Homeowners return for Sunday’s dash race.
The Ford V8 ante has been raised, with four-time BTCC champion Ash Sutton sharing Craig Davies’s Mustang, and Fred Shepherd partnering his father Invoice. Normal Motors has Dario Franchitti/James Cottingham in David Clark’s Camaro, dealing with Tom Kristensen/Jack Tetley and Marino Franchitti/Oliver Bryant, plus Gordon Shedden and Andy Priaulx in additional roaring Z28s.
Tom Ingram/Michael Whitaker, Jamie Chadwick/Nick Sleep, David Brabham/John Saunders and Alex Brundle/Myles Poulton head the Rover line-up. Jake Hill/Ric Wooden, Rob Huff/Richard Meins, Darren Turner/Mike Whitaker, Emanuele Pirro/Charlie March and Man and Peter Smith uphold Spice honour within the Capris.
Attempting to get amongst them might be rising star Seb Priaulx – making his Goodwood debut – sharing Alex Taylor’s Mazda RX-7.
3. F3 screamers rejoice diamond jubilee
The sixtieth anniversary 1000cc F3 ‘screamer’ season will start in advantageous type with the Derek Bell Cup
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5-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell received his debut race at Goodwood in a Lotus 7 in 1964, and F3 races in Lotus 31 and 41 in 1965 and 1966 respectively. The native ace’s identify graces the occasion, which opens the sixtieth anniversary 1000cc F3 ‘screamer’ season in type.
Sizzling favorite is professional GT racer Michael O’Brien, who saddles father Mike’s newly restored Titan Mk3. He takes on earlier winner Andrew Hibberd and Dan Eagling (Brabham BT18s), Jon Milicevic (BT21), Richard Trott (BT28), Jeremy Timms (Chevron B15) and Peter de la Roche (Alexis Mk17).
Heading a robust continental contingent are Frenchmen Francois Derossi (Chevron B17) and Thomas Jamin (March 703), Italy’s Enrico Spaggiari (ex-John Miles Lotus 41X), Swede Leif Bosson (Brabham BT28) and Switzerland’s Austin Widmer (De Sanctis F3 69). Much less well-known is Ludovic Ingwiler in a French Pygmee.
The true darkish horse might be outright lap file holder – in a Can-Am Lola T70 – and FIA Historic F1 champion Nick Padmore who, whereas he has not raced these vehicles, will certainly be on the tempo in Ian Bankhurst’s ex-Terry Ogilvie-Hardy Alexis Mk8.
4. Gerhard Berger in Barnard’s F1 Ferrari 640
Berger will exhibit an instance of the Ferrari 640 wherein he received the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix
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Thirty-five years after he raced the automobile for Ferrari in the course of the 1989 F1 season, the primary of the post-1500cc turbo period, Austrian Gerhard Berger – now 64 and a Goodwood common – might be reunited along with his 640 in every day demonstrations on the two.4-mile circuit.
Designed by Briton John Barnard, mastermind at Ferrari’s Guildford Technical Workplace (GTO), the unique blueprint needed to be reconfigured round Ferrari’s 3.5-litre V12 engine for the brand new laws after delays growing its superior semi-automatic paddleshift transmission.
Berger’s team-mate Nigel Mansell received the world championship opener in Brazil, however the end result flattered to deceive. Eight races elapsed earlier than Mansell added the Hungarian GP to his CV however, after a spate of unreliability, Berger triumphed in Portugal, the fifth of 10 profession F1 victories.
The super-sleek Ferrari’s progress might be traced round Goodwood by the magnificently shrill be aware of its energy unit, which made an honest, although not world-leading, 660bhp in its heyday. McLaren-Honda’s Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna received 10 of the 16 rounds to complete 1-2.
5. Brawn vs finesse in Surtees sportscar pageant
All kinds of sports-prototypes will contest the Surtees Trophy wherein Ford GT, Lola T70 and Chevron equipment are anticipated to go head-to-head
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Seven years have flown by because the passing of John Surtees, who was a beautiful supporter of Goodwood’s early new-era occasions. Twenty years after he had referred to as time on his frontline driving profession, the 1964 F1 champion’s elegant abilities in Ferraris are a legacy treasured nonetheless by those that missed his heyday.
A light-weight 1500cc GP automobile and a hulking Can-Am Lola T70 are a world aside, but Surtees mastered each, simply as he had switched between 250cc, 350cc and 500cc bikes beforehand. The sportscar race in his identify spans large V8s and two-litre Group 4 vehicles in a catchweight dash. It might go both approach.
Whereas the T70s, McLaren M1s and Ford GT40s have the grunt for the lengthy blasts, they’re heavy. The 575kg Chevron GTs (B6 and B8s) weigh two-thirds as a lot, but their BMW M10 engines make half the facility of one of the best Chevrolets. The ‘Bolton Wanderers’ change path higher and carry extra velocity via the corners, and Andrew Kirkaldy and Ben Mitchell will put up an excellent combat.
Look ahead to the Marina Rolls-Royce, Crossle-Oldsmobile 5S and Attila-Chevrolet among the many oddballs.
6. Sidecar aces convey new motorbike motion
TT conquering Birchall brothers might be among the many discipline for the sidecar dash shootout
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World champion drivers and passengers on state-of-the-art equipment convey an thrilling style of the 150mph FIM Sidecar World Championship to Goodwood motor circuit for the primary time within the type of a shootout dash competitors introduced collectively by eight-time champion Tim Reeves.
Kentishman Reeves and Mark Wilkes, with whom he received his most up-to-date crown in 2019, are competing on a German-made Adolf RS, powered by a 600cc Yamaha R6 engine. Present double champions Todd Ellis from Lincolnshire and French companion Emanuelle Clement are the couple to beat on their Swiss Louis Christen Racing Yamaha.
Nottinghamshire’s Ben Birchall, who received 4 world titles with brother Tom between 2009 and 2018, can be within the fray with Frenchman Kevin Rousseau within the chair of his LCR, powered by a Honda CBR600 engine.
The groups will acclimatise to the circuit on Saturday, then participate in a knockout match on Sunday morning from which the quickest two will progress to the afternoon’s last. The world sidecar championship was first run in 1949 – the yr after Goodwood opened – when Eric Oliver and Denis ‘Jenks’ Jenkinson emerged victorious.
7. Centenarian bolides assure thrillers
Pittaway’s flame-spitting FIAT S76 ‘Beast of Turin’ is bound to be a crowd favorite
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With each automobile within the discipline effectively over 100 years previous, the dual Edwardian contests named for intrepid motoring pioneer Selwyn Francis Edge – one every day – are invariably among the many most enjoyable of the weekend.
As ever, father-and-son Mark and Hughie Walker are on the centre of the motion in mighty 1905 Darracq 200hp and 1914 Delage GP Voiturette respectively, however will it will likely be Julian Majzub’s flip to triumph in his svelte 1916 Sunbeam Indianapolis?
An earlier Indy automobile – Ivan Dutton’s 1913 Peugeot with Tom Wooden up – and Ben Collings within the 1907 Mercedes 120hp received’t be removed from the entrance, however Duncan Pittaway’s fire-breathing 1911 FIAT S76 – aka ‘The Beast of Turin’ – would be the followers’ favorite.
Intriguing aero-engined hybrids embody Matt Johnston’s 1913 Curtis OX-powered De Dion Bouton and Francois van der Straten Ponthoz’s Theophile Schneider of comparable classic. Andrew Howe-Davies brings his 1911 SCAT Targa Florio and 1914 Straker Squire TT Racer for Tim Greenhill. Towering over all however the FIAT would be the 1906 Bianchi of Wriggly Monkey Brewery proprietor Luke Roberts.
8. Ken Miles remembered in Mustang Sally
Craig Davies is among the many Mustang contingent anxious to guide the spectacular entry within the Ken Miles Cup
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Expat Briton Ken Miles’s technical genius and Carroll Shelby’s enterprise acumen constructed the Shelby American enterprise into some of the highly effective forces on the world stage in 1959 Le Mans victor Shelby’s post-driving days. Miles was a prolific race winner within the Cobras, Mustangs and Ford GT40s he developed in the course of the Sixties.
Sunday’s Miles-named 45-minute two-driver race is for Mustang notchbacks, and the entry checklist reads like a touring automobile encyclopedia. Quadruple BTCC champion Ash Sutton – the reigning title winner – can count on to lock horns with Tom Ingram, Jake Hill, Josh Prepare dinner and Adam Morgan of his present rivals, plus returnee Rob Huff.
Triple world champion Andy Priaulx and fellow veterans Matt Neal, Andrew Jordan, Anthony Reid and Steve Soper are in there too, with Le Mans winners Tom Kristensen, Emanuele Pirro, Neel Jani, Jochen Mass and David Brabham, whose father Jack raced a Mustang within the mid-Sixties.
Fratelli Franchitti – Dario and Marino – be part of the star-studded solid with triple W Sequence champion Jamie Chadwick on her Goodwood debut, as is Audi legend Mike Rockenfeller. Watch too for the spectacular Kevin Abbring and Stig Blomqvist (nonetheless fast at 77) because the thunder unfolds.
9. Williams race marks Bugatti T35 anniversaries
The 1929 Monaco GP victory of William Grover-Williams in a Bugatti T35B might be marked 95 years on
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Ninety-five years – to the day – after Anglo-Frenchman William Grover ‘Williams’ received the inaugural Monaco GP in his British Racing Inexperienced Bugatti Kind 35B, no fewer than 18 T35s rejoice the centenary of the introduction of Ettore Bugatti’s iconic sequence of vehicles because the Grover Williams Trophy turns the circuit primarily French blue.
Veteran Bugattiste Julian Majzub, versatile historic racer Mike Wrigley and Bo Williams saddle T35Bs, however face the extra highly effective T51s of marque specialist Tim Dutton and Matt Walton in Sunday’s race for Grand Prix vehicles of the Nineteen Twenties.
The entry showcases the evolution of the vehicles, powered by straight-eight engines in each naturally aspirated and supercharged types. Standing out from the set of 35, A, B, C and T fashions would be the sunshine yellow 35C of Channel Islander Jonathan Bailey, equally adept in a contemporary Nissan Skyline GT-R.
It’s not all Bugs although, for Chris Mann’s 1924 Alfa Romeo RLTF, Tim Crighton in Samik Mukherjee’s Frazer Nash, the Aston Martins of Jonathan Lupton (Staff Automobile) and Marian Stoch (Worldwide) and John Polson’s Talbot AO90 sq. as much as the Molsheim machines, bringing interval appropriate opposition.
10. Collins Trophy mirrors early BARC MM races
An eclectic mixture of equipment will contest the Peter Collins Trophy
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The 71 British Car Racing Membership’s Members’ Conferences run between 1949 and 1966, actually within the early years, had been centered on facilitating racing for fans with appropriate sportscars. The Second World Struggle had left the British Isles affected by redundant aerodromes similar to RAF Westhampnett (Goodwood), ripe for repurposing as race tracks.
Because the pastime grew to become extra well-liked and accessible, the dimensions and breadth of fields grew. Sunday’s Peter Collins Trophy entry most carefully resembles that of pre-1953 interval occasions, with a advantageous mixture of road-legal manufacturing vehicles and sports-racers. Other than Maserati, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo exotica, Jaguar C and D-types and quick HWM-Jaguar and Cooper-Jaguar T33, there are Frazer Nashes (Le Mans Replicas and Mille Miglia) and Cooper-Bristol.
Sam Wilson is more likely to humble potent opposition within the Cooper-Zephyr. Goodwood ace Gary Pearson will do likewise in a Mistral-bodied Jaguar XK120. The Cadillac V8-engined Allard J2s will take some beating, however no one could have extra enjoyable than American returnee Ernie Nagamatsu in his trustworthy steed, Previous Yeller II, originated by west coast particular builder Max Balchowsky.
There are races to swimsuit each style at Goodwood this weekend
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