TOP 10 CARS
Fantastic race cars are everywhere at Goodwood, but we’ve managed to pick 10 that we think are highlights. As ever, the Revival has tempted some rarely seen gems onto the grid.
1The 1934 Maserati 8CM that Rob Newall will race with typical verve in the Goodwood Trophy has an impeccable period history. This is the glorious ex-whitney Straight car, now owned by Chris Jaques. It looks and sounds wonderful and Newall’s pace fully does it justice.
3The Ford GT40 was starting to make its mark in international racing when Goodwood closed in 1966 and it is fitting that a field of 10 cars will contest the Whitsun Trophy. Pilots include Nick Padmore, Chris Ward, Mike Jordan, Shaun Lynn and Stuart Hall.
5Few racing cars of the early 1930s can match the Alfa Romeo 8C Monza for sight or sound and the Monza tag pays homage to Nuvolari’s 1931 Italian Grand Prix victory. There are three straight-eight Monzas in the Brooklands Trophy for Chris Mann, Rupert Clevely and Moritz Werner.
7Goodwood was an important track in the career of Jim Clark and he was a Formula Junior winner in Sussex as early as 1960. The sublime Lotus 25 was one of his most successful cars and, in the Glover Trophy, Andy Middlehurst will race the car that took Clark to the 1963 World Championship.
9Goodwood is always the place for the unusual and there are few less likely race cars than the Nash Metropolitan. The compact American saloon was built by Austin in the UK in the 1950s for sale in the US and the car of Shaun Rainford, to be shared with John Cleland in the St Mary’s Trophy, must be the only example turned into a racer.
2Former BTCC ace Patrick Watts needs little introduction and is now a prolific racer in a range of touring cars spanning five decades. His latest project is a Studebaker Golden Hawk, which has recently been built into a late 1950s racer for the St Mary’s Trophy.
4Such is the multi-million pound value of a Ferrari 250GTO that few will ever race again, so the Jcb-owned car will be a rare treat on the grid for the TT Celebration race. In the hands of Andy Newall and Frank Stippler it will be raced just as it was intended when new in 1964.
6Although it never raced in period, the unique Kieft Grand Prix car is a special piece of racing history and its Coventry Climax V8-engine makes a sensational noise. The 1953 car finally made its race debut 50 years later and this weekend contests the Richmond Trophy in the hands of Nigel Batchelor.
8In the year of the death of Lola founder Eric Broadley it is fitting that five examples of his Mk1 design will race in the Madgwick Cup, taking on the best of Lotus and Cooper just like 60 years ago. Particularly notable is the car that started it all, the Mk1 Prototype of Keith Ahlers and Billy Bellinger.
10ERA’S bid to match the German cars in the late 1930s was destined not to succeed but the E-type GP1 remains one of the best looking cars of the period. Fielded by Duncan Ricketts in the Goodwood Trophy, this is final car in the illustrious story of English Racing Automobiles.