Australia Day at Goodwood

Goodwood Revival 2014

September 12-14, 2014 – Goodwood, UK

It was Australia to the fore at the world’s most prestigious Historic bike race, Lord March’s annual Goodwood Festival of Speed, run in evennumbered years for motorcycles of a type which competed in the one and only Goodwood bike meeting ever held, in 1951. Melbourne’s Irving Vincent team brought a highly-tuned but otherwise original genuine 1950 Rapide V-twin from Down Under to score victory in both legs of the two-part race, with riders Beau Beaton and Craig McMartin wrapping up an emphatic overall win for team owners Ken and Barry Horner and also setting a new lap record for the 2.4-mile circuit at 96.53mph. On combined times they were 50.84 seconds ahead of secondplaced Isle of Man TT-winner Steve Plater and Glen English on a replica longstroke Manx Norton, with Adelaide’s Glen Richards third on a similar bike, shared with Scott Smart. Former World Superbike champion Troy Corser qualified in third place for the Le Mans-type start on the BMW factory’s 1937 R5SS, but was forced to retire from both races with oil