5 Collins’ 1950s sportscar heaven

Peter Collins cemented his place in Goodwood history by winning, with Pat Griffith and against the odds, the inaugural Nine Hour race in August 1952 in an Aston Martin DB3. The reliable Astons also beat Jaguar’s hares in 1953 and 1955 for a clean sweep of the three gruelling enduros

(it wasn’t run in 1954) and the 1958 and 1959 RAC Tourist Trophy races.

Jaguars are out to turn the tide in the Collins 1950s sportscar race. Gary Pearson leads five D-types and three C-types into battle against the Maserati 300Ss of Dutchman David Hart and German brothers Josef-otto and Stephan

Rettenmaier, plus Ferrari 250Tr/290mm-mounted American Mike Malone.

Darren Turner and Martin Hunt are out in wieldy Hwm-jaguars, while Katarina Kyvalova is back with her ex-bertie Bradnack Cooper-jaguar T33 and James Thorpe brings his Lister ‘flat-iron’, also XK powered.

Christopher Mann’s glorious Alfa Romeo 3000PR ‘Disco Volante’ and Bill Shepherd’s Ford Thunderbird ‘Battlebird’ represent opposite ends of the aerodynamic spectrum, in a field that includes Alain Ruede’s Cunningham C4R and

Nick Jarvis’s cycle-winged Allard-cadillac J2X.