1. Ingram joins TT V8 wrestlers
Eighteen V8-engined automobiles tackle a dozen Jaguar XK and Porsche ‘sixes’ because the Royal Vehicle Membership Vacationer Trophy Celebration race supplies Sunday afternoon’s sensational centrepiece. Tom Ingram, 2022 British Touring Automotive champion and sizzling on factors chief Jake Hill’s heels within the present title battle, exams his reflexes in Mike Whitaker’s TVR Griffith 400.
A lone wolf amongst 10 venomous AC/Shelby Cobras, a brutal Sunbeam Tiger Le Mans coupe and lowline Tojeiro EE powered by comparable Ford V8s, plus three Chevrolet Corvette Stingrays, a Bizzarrini 5300 GT and a Cheetah, the short-wheelbase TVR has been honed right into a aggressive beast by marque specialist Nigel Reuben and the Jordan Racing Staff.
Hill is the newest ace to share Olly Bryant’s Cobra – winner in 2021 with Darren Turner co-driving – whereas BTCC champs Gordon Shedden (Cobra), Andrew Jordan (Corvette) and Matt Neal (Bizzarrini) stud the all-star subject. Andy Priaulx sprang a shock victory in William Paul’s Jaguar E-type final September and is again on the Coventry crew, as is Tom Kristensen in Fred Wakeman’s Lister Coupe.
2. Surtees profession celebrated
Surtees was all the time a fan favorite at Goodwood
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John Surtees was a five-time world bike champion when, on 19 March 1960, he made his automobile racing debut at Goodwood. He’d beforehand examined an Aston Martin sports-racer, however to qualify Ken Tyrrell’s System Junior Cooper-BMC T52 on pole, forward of Jim Clark’s works Lotus-Ford 18, and end second to the Scot was a telling achievement.
Extra extraordinary was that ‘Huge John’, at 26, was promoted to F1 lower than two months later, debuting for Colin Chapman’s Staff Lotus within the BRDC’s Worldwide Trophy occasion at Silverstone. Second in July’s British GP there, on pole for (and crashed whereas main) August’s Portuguese GP, Surtees retired from the US GP, ending a part-season wherein he added two extra 350cc and 500cc crowns on two wheels!
Surtees, winner of Goodwood’s Glover Trophy in 1961 in a Yeoman Credit score Cooper, subsequently raced Bowmaker Lolas earlier than becoming a member of Ferrari in 1963 and profitable the 1964 F1 championship with the Italian crew. Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of his F1 crown with a cavalcade of automobiles and bikes spanning his profession can be particular.
3. Friday evening is sportscar evening
Evocative Sussex Trophy race opens the motion on Friday
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The Sussex Trophy race, which for the primary time graces the one-hour double-driver slot to open the present on Friday night, evokes reminiscences of the great late-Fifties multi-marque world sportscar championship TT period at Goodwood wherein shapely and sonorous steeds proudly carried their nationwide colors into battle.
As nightfall descends, hopefully with a vivid autumnal sundown over Fordwater and wealthy engine notes enriching the evocative orchestral soundtrack, Jaguar and Chevrolet-powered Listers needs to be to the fore. Jaguar D-types lead the chase, with Le Mans winner Andy Wallace and Gary Pearson. Count on a Transatlantic problem from Julian Majzub’s Canadian Sadler-Chevrolet and the American Kellison J4 (which Sam Wilson saddles), whereas Tom Kristensen and Sam Hancock race the Ferrari 246S Dino in reminiscence of engineer Tim Samways.
Agile two-litre automobiles will make their presence felt over the gap, with the strongest set of Lotus 15s but at a Revival. David Brabham, Richard Bradley and Olly Bryant are among the many star names in Chapman’s chariots attempting to match Antipodean combo James Davison/Roger Wills. Additionally Climax FPF-motivated, a pair of rear-engined Cooper T49 Monacos present distinction too.
4. 10 ERAs grace Goodwood Trophy
David Morris leads Mark Gillies eventually 12 months’s Revival
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Seventy-six years in the past, when RAF Westhampnett opened its doorways for the primary time because the Goodwood Motor Circuit, 9 English Racing Cars from the Nineteen Thirties burst into life anew. 4 are again, bringing siblings, for Saturday’s Goodwood Trophy race, together with Prince Bira’s R5B ‘Remus’ – wherein Ludovic Lindsay gained on the first Revival Assembly in 1998 – now owned by fast Irishman Paddins Dowling.
‘Remus’ was a recalcitrant teenager in 1948, head gasket failure in apply precluding a Every day Graphic System 1 function begin. Driver John Bolster, the celebrated future Autosport technical editor, discovered comfort by setting quickest lap in ERA R11B en route to 3rd in one other race behind Dennis Poore’s Alfa Romeo and Peter Walker’s R7B.
Julian Wilton races R7B, Heinz Bachmann Geoff Ansell’s R9B, Brad Baker Graham Whitehead’s R10B, and David Morris Bolster’s R11B from that momentous day. Count on earlier Revival winners Mark Gillies (R3A) and Morris to make the operating with Dowling. Nick Topliss (R4A) gained’t be far behind, with Ben Fidler’s R4D experiencing the joys of the chase as soon as extra alongside Tom Hardman in late-built AJM1, crafted by Tony Merrick.
5. Stirling Moss GT extravaganza
Saturday’s Memorial Trophy race celebrates Moss’s place in Goodwood lore. He’s pictured on the 1998 Revival
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Stirling Moss was king of Goodwood from 1948-62, and delighted Revival-goers lengthy after he wowed them with fingertip management of a Maserati 250F in 1999’s grizzly moist situations, as exact as 45 years earlier than in his early profession. The maestro’s victories in 4 successive TT races, spanning Aston Martin DBR1s to Ferrari 250 GT Berlinettas in 1960 and 1961, are celebrated right here.
4 years after Moss’s loss of life, aged 90, Saturday’s Memorial Trophy race fittingly contains a quartet of the timelessly swish three-litre V12 Ferrari ‘SWB’s with Tom Kristensen and Emanuele Pirro their star drivers, though they are going to be outgrunted on the straights by bigger displacement Jaguar E-types and AC Cobras. The Buncombe brothers – Alex and Chris – and Andy Priaulx are in svelte Jags, whereas Andrew Jordan and the omnipresent Nigel Greensall high the snake charmers.
A robust Aston Martin DB4 GT posse consists of Dwight Merriman’s ex-Jim Clark instance and boasts drivers of the calibre of BTCC star Josh Prepare dinner, Dario Franchitti, 2013 RAC TT Celebration winner Simon Hadfield and Kyle Tilley. The gallant Austin-Healey 3000 ‘DD300’, a triple Le Mans veteran, can also be within the combine.
6. Barracudas chase Galaxie 500s
Galaxies can be steered by a stellar line-up
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A quintet of Ford Galaxie 500s of the sort wherein Jack Sears terrorised the beforehand all-conquering Jaguar Mk2s within the 1963 British saloon automobile championship go face to face with a brace of Plymouth Barracudas because the St Mary’s Trophy contest reverts to its pre-1966 timeline.
The Blue Oval’s line-up may hardly be extra stellar, with seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, a number of Le Mans winners Romain Dumas and Andre Lotterer, triple World Touring Automotive conqueror Andy Priaulx and triple BTCC champ Gordon Shedden racing the seven-litre monsters in Saturday’s Professional leg. However Jake Hill relishes a problem and picks up the Mopar model’s cudgels, backed up by Abbie Eaton, fast in her father’s youthful Holden Commodore.
The below two-litre contest can be no much less compelling, with Lotus Cortinas (Rob Huff, Tom Ingram, Matt Neal and Marcel Fassler), Alfa Romeo GTAs (Marino Franchitti, Andrew Jordan, Jochen Mass, Emanuele Pirro, Frank Stippler and Jean-Eric Vergne) and BMW 1800 TiSAs (Neel Jani and Christian Horner) attempting to match the US muscle.
7. Lola versus Lotus in Madgwick Britpops
Madgwick magic: Lola-Climax Mk1 leads Lotus Elevens
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Small-capacity light-weight sportscar racing was a staple of Goodwood’s Worldwide occasions and Members’ Conferences of the later Fifties. Certainly they have been the recent ticket as Colin Chapman’s Lotuses and Eric Broadley’s Lolas fought for supremacy, utilizing Coventry-Climax engines, each British marques getting into an period of fast growth to satiate a rising international buyer base’s urge for food.
Broadley rolled his Lola Mk1 prototype at Madgwick in August 1958, however the little automobile was shortly again on observe and profitable. Its overwhelmed aluminium physique stays unpainted and, in long-time custodian Keith Ahlers’ fingers, is a possible Madgwick Cup frontrunner. As are Ben Adams’s black manufacturing model, winner of Goodwood’s ultimate modern period race in July 1966 with Dickie Metcalfe up, and Nick Finburgh’s sister automobile.
Lotus Elevens head the opposition, with multi-Goodwood winner Miles Griffiths favorite in an LM150 mannequin. Cooper T39 ‘Bobtails’, Sussex-built Elvas, a Kieft and a uncommon Rejo be part of the fray too.
8. The half-litre membership reconvenes
Earl of March Trophy makes welcome return
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From Fortress Combe’s five hundredth automobile race assembly in April to the Oulton Park Gold Cup, through Austria’s Crimson Bull Ring, 500 Homeowners’ Affiliation members are having fun with an incredible season. However the jewel of their crown for 2024 is a return to the Goodwood Revival Assembly, the Earl of March Trophy gig which, just like the Olympic Video games, comes spherical each 4 years as of late.
Per 1948 to 1956, when the motorcycle-engined automobiles have been of their pomp, saddled by Stirling Moss (a gap day victor in September 1948) and future race college king Jim Russell, it’s Coopers towards the remainder in what turned F3. Sunday morning’s Revival dream grid additionally encompasses Arnott, Comet, Erskine Staride, Flash Particular, JBS, JP, Kieft, Mackson, Martin, Petty and Smith-Buckler chassis, plus French Cousy, Swedish Effyh, Dutch Larkens and Australian Trenberth rivals.
Tom Waterfield and Alex Wilson will take some beating, however George ‘Avro’ Shackleton flew in his ex-Byron Lewis Cooper at Oulton and is owed a end result at Goodwood having beforehand been tripped into the pitwall. Simon Dedman’s ex-Ninian Sanderson ‘ahead management’ Staride and the Martins of Simon Frost and Chris Wilson gained’t be far behind.
9. Poignant parades; trend sideshows
seventy fifth anniversary of the Jaguar XK engine can be marked by a particular demonstration
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Aside from the homages to John Surtees, on Sunday there can be an appreciation of Goodwood’s RAF roots for the contribution of numerous conflict heroes, navy and civilian, inside a commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of D-Day in 1944.
Hordes of Jaguars mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the XK engine that powered C- and D-types to 5 Le Mans 24 Hours victories within the Fifties. On Sunday, His Grace the Duke of Richmond & Gordon opens the Tyrrell Shed, the common-or-garden timber manufacturing unit – now relocated from Surrey to the paddock – wherein ‘Uncle Ken’ and his crew constructed the automobiles and masterminded Jackie Stewart’s 1971 and 1973 F1 world championships.
Trend and magnificence will, as all the time, be on the forefront of off-track actions. The Revive & Thrive hub phases knowledgeable craft workshops and exhibits for all tastes. Over The Street amid the commerce village the Sky Cinema will display screen The Wizard of Oz, Grease and The Best Showman every day.
10. Adrian Newey’s weekend to loosen up
Newey will race Ford GT40 in Saturday’s Whitsun Trophy
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Away from the rigours of his day job, creating the astonishing Crimson Bull hypercar and ongoing hypothesis on his subsequent (final?) profession transfer, what does the world’s biggest System 1 designer do on his weekends off?
The reply might be curating his steady of iconic automobiles – Gold Leaf Staff Lotus-Cosworth 49B R8 his prize possession – and competing in landmark races, one thing else the 65-year-old excels at.
Recent from ending fourth within the Monaco GP Historique’s earliest three-litre F1 set in Graham Hill’s interval mount, Newey may begin trying ahead to the Revival, an everyday hang-out for the previous 20 years. Again in 2009, with Indycar legend Bobby Rahal, he gained the RAC TT Celebration in his Jaguar E-type, a feat repeated with Martin Brundle in 2012, setting a lap document en route. Newey additionally gained 2013’s Ford GT40 race with Swede Kenny Brack.
This 12 months Newey is contesting two races: Saturday’s Whitsun Trophy in his GT40 and Sunday’s RAC Vacationer Trophy retrospective within the Jaguar, co-driven by son Harrison, 26. Each have been taking part in themselves in at current Goodwood take a look at days. Junior has unfinished enterprise, for transmission failure halted the E-type whereas main, courtesy of Jenson Button, in 2022.
F1 design virtuoso relishes Goodwood R&R
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