WINNER GOOSSENS RETURNS TO FESTIVAL
The 1991 Formula Ford Festival winner Marc Goossens will compete again in the famous Brands Hatch event this month in a Peninsula Historic Motorsport-run historic Van Diemen RF80.
The drive was orchestrated by Alan Bowles who is a Festival stalwart as a driver, running cars and marshalling, while the car belongs to Simon Langman.
Goossens, who also won 1991’s UK Formula Ford title, twice finished third in the
Formula 1-feeder Formula 3000 championship and has recently been competing in EuroNASCAR.
Bowles told Motorsport News: “My easy part was just finding the right driver that would befit the project, and I’m a great believer in we need a former winner. I need a pedaller who’s still racing, somebody’s who’ll be wanting take it seriously shall we say.”
Bowles had met Goossens both when the Belgian visited Brands with EuroNASCAR and when he contributed to a Festival history book that Bowles took over from late legendary commentator Brian Jones.
Bowles continued: “[Goossens] fits the criteria: former winner, nice guy, very enthusiastic, and looking forward to coming back to Brands after all these years.”
The car will run as #129, as Goossens did in ’91. “We have a special colour scheme up our sleeve which we’re hoping that when people see it they’ll go ‘wow’,” Bowles added.