The RAC TT race in full.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVEXo4-VSk
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The RAC TT race in full.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVEXo4-VSk
that hardtop on the cobra's (car number 98) looks terrible I reckon
There is no point in posting a pic of every car in the St Mary's (Austin A30/A35 races) but most had a 'named' driver for practice 1 (dry) and race 1 (wet) with the owner's on Day 2 (dry). The few I am posting are generally the 'named' driver as per the name of the image. (Run your mouse over the image if I haven't marked them.)
Although supposedly a 'control' engine for this Academy Series, one team managed to get through three engines during the weekend. As noted earlier, Paul Radish's car didn't sound too sweet on Friday or Saturday.
There was a piece about the A30/35 class on a show on SKY Sport recently. It was created by Julius Thurgood as a budget prices one-make historic category, whereby people go out and purchase a standard A30/35, then buy a kit from Thurgood's company which is supposed to make all the cars equal on performance.
It's that man, Tiff Needell again... Last set from this grid, before we get to one of my favourite grids. The Goodwood Trophy.
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Not in the race programme, but thanks to the great definition on the full sized image, Frank Stippler.
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No excuses here for more than 1 pic of many cars. Practice was dry (Friday) but this was the first race up on Saturday - and it started raining lap one and that rain remained for most of the day. I hope you enjoy this set as much as I do.
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Love it when you can see the driver 'driving'!
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Ray, could you please tell me, what is 'MG' about the car in pic 1010.........the twin OHC engine, or anything else that I can see.....other than the badge, doesnt seem to be connected to MG in any way........just asking.
From the interweb:
"From what I can determine, it seems that the car was originally a MG K3 Magnette similar to the car that Tazio Nuvolari drove to win the Ards TT in 1933. The car was subsequently converted to a single-seat layout. Well-known British racer, Reg Parnell, bought this car in 1935 and raced it in British racing events. Parnell then converted it to a twin-cam engine and he raced it until 1937, when he sold the car."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOW0IbvvFok
"Parnell came from a family which ran a garage business in Derby. In 1933, he was a spectator when Donington Park held its first motor race, and he decided to try the sport. By 1935, he bought an old 2-litre Bugatti single-seater for just £25. It broke its rear axle in the paddock at its first meeting, but buying spare parts for the Bugatti was too expensive, so it was replaced with a MG Magnette K3. Parnell had secured wins at both Brooklands and Donington Park, but in 1937 he lost his licence following a practice accident for the 500 Mile race, at Brooklands. He misjudged an overtaking move on Kay Petre, when he lost control of the MG, crashing into her Austin 7 from behind, causing it to roll. She crashed badly and was seriously injured. She never raced competitively again. Although she put the incident down to ‘bad luck’, the RAC revoked Parnell’s racing license for two years. This meant that he was unable to race."
Incidentally, the car was damaged at the 2014 Goodwood meeting.
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First race up on Saturday morning and note that the stand is nowhere near full. Always pays to get to a race meeting early if you want a decent view. I noted that the grid girls did the same row each time, so #1 was always the same girl. I observe things like that...
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Ray,
Your photos are fantastic. I hope you don't mind this input of why Reg Parnell got in trouble over this incident.
Poor Kay Petre was at the wrong place at the wrong time in car # 3.
""Parnell came from a family which ran a garage business in Derby. In 1933, he was a spectator when Donington Park held its first motor race, and he decided to try the sport. By 1935, he bought an old 2-litre Bugatti single-seater for just £25. It broke its rear axle in the paddock at its first meeting, but buying spare parts for the Bugatti was too expensive, so it was replaced with a MG Magnette K3. Parnell had secured wins at both Brooklands and Donington Park, but in 1937 he lost his licence following a practice accident for the 500 Mile race, at Brooklands. He misjudged an overtaking move on Kay Petre, when he lost control of the MG, crashing into her Austin 7 from behind, causing it to roll. She crashed badly and was seriously injured. She never raced competitively again. Although she put the incident down to ‘bad luck’, the RAC revoked Parnell’s racing license for two years. This meant that he was unable to race."
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(Ken Hyndman )
Thanks Ken. I hadn't even heard of the car before 2012, when it appeared at the Monaco Historics. Having just been to Brooklands, the day before Goodwood, the banking looks frightening today, let alone then. I believe it was constructed quite quickly and is anything but smooth - and I doubt it ever was. Brave men and women back then.
Rhys, I thought I'd already replied, but others on Windows may find this free utility very useful, for shrinking images. Called Image Resizer'.
http://www.bricelam.net/ImageResizer/
It allows you to shrink a block of pics in one go. I'm currently setting mine to 850 pixels wide. Occasionally, the image still comes out larger than this site's 185kb limit, but most are OK, having already been cropped.
I keep the originals and only shrink copies!
In Windows File Explorer, you simply select the images you want to shrink, then right click the mouse and it should come up with 'Resize pictures' as one of the options. Like Rhys, it was doing my head in before, trying to shrink them one by one in Photoshop, so I had never posted as many as I would have liked.
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Possibly the most raced and most successful historic race car ever. However, it seems that other cars may have been further developed recently, as 'Remus' (R5B) wasn't on the podium this time or even in contention. In fact, for the first time in a long, long time, there was no ERA on the podium. Mark Gillies in ERA R3A was leading at one stage, but had an off course excursion and maybe even a quick call in to the pits, before rejoining.
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Just two sets to go in this grid.
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A rare shot as the E Type ERA only managed this one out lap in practice. No idea what the problem was, but a portent of things to come for the ERA camp! When you consider the low number of ERAs built, the survival rate is not only impressive, but the fact that so many are still raced is even more impressive. I wonder if anyone will ever recreate the post war G Type that morphed into the Bristol Le Mans car?
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Not the winner though - 2nd or 3rd.
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The winner - Callum Lockie - has a unique way of jumping out of the car!
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There were several parades. The "Road to Wembley - 1966", a tribute to Sir Jack Brabham, "Return to Power (F1)" and a parade of "Goodwood Greats". Some of the parade cars were racing anyway, but some were not. A bit of a mixed bag, but an integral part of the Revival.
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Better known as the Kimberley Special
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Next small set coming soon - 1966 era F1 cars.
The 'Return to Power' in 1966 is what killed off Goodwood - and many would say, 'thank goodness for that'. When Lord March re-opened it for the first Revival, I am sure he had no idea of just what an iconic event it would turn into.
Had the circuit remained, but surrounded by those terrible wire fences that infest most current tracks, this race meeting would never ever be the drawcard it is. Being able to walk right around the track, lean on a waist high fence, use a modest camera to get the sort of shots you see here, surely tells it all?
Having now been to the Monaco Historics, where you are penned into whatever cage your ticket allows, but no paddock access and none of the carnival or trade support, not to mention car parking, even though the cars on track may be similar, no contest from a spectator viewpoint. Goodwood wins hands down. I'd never bother go back to Monaco, but I could do every Goodwood race meeting and always enjoy it. Not perfect maybe, but I'd rate it overall at 95%.
The 1966 F1 group wasn't very large, (no Ferrari) but so good to hear race engines that sounded like race engines and not X-Box screamers.
One of the reasons for only giving Goodwood a 95% rating relates to the programming or scheduling. As mentioned before, there is a lot of wasted track time, yet the 'Sussex Trophy' cars never got out on track until the end of the day, Friday and again Sunday. OK, my choice to leave just before racing finished not to mention being very tired, but with 50,000 people heading for the exits at the same time, being fed into the narrow country lanes or even the A27, leaving early was a no brainer that worked very well for me.
I'm bitterly disappointed that I missed these cars on track and if anyone with Goodwood connections reads this (I doubt they will), then a plea to have a look at the schedule to maybe shuffle the groups around a wee bit. Two Austin A35 races and two pedal car races in the middle of the day, not to mention the 3 parades repeated each day, but Sussex Trophy cars not before 5.25pm (race, 6pm practice), was a shame.
Apologies for not covering many cars, but had I done my homework, I would have taken more paddock shots! No apologies for concentrating on the Listers and the Tojeiro. Based on the entry list. I should have taken the Devin Chev - but I didn't see it, Lotus 15's, a Ferrari 246s Dino (missed that one too...), Sadler Chev and Maserati Birdcage - which I thought I had taken.
Ray,
Your photos are amazing and you take the time to share them all. Thanks so much.
Is that Chris McAllister driving the Lotus 49 # 5 with the Jim Clark type helmet ?
( Ken H.)
Thanks Ken, but there is no mention in the programme of who is driving which car or as they are display cars only, not even what the car numbers are. As with the Brabham parade, you'd need to be far more knowledgeable than I am to accurately identify each car. You can tell the difference between an H16 BRM and the V12 BRM easily enough...
I think the mclaren dfv is later than 1966 ray
Correct, but the cars in the parade weren't all 1966! They ranged from 1966 - 1968. The parade was titled 'Return to Power' to recognise the 3 litre formula. Sorry, maybe I should have explained that better. There were 14 cars listed but not all appeared - or ran. The earlier McLaren Ford wasn't seen on track.
Another favourite group, so often, more than 1 pic of most cars. The bright sunshine really helped. I totally missed the practice session as it was when I was hiking from Madgwick back to the car for the fresh camera battery. This is from the 'Richmond Trophy' grid, for 2.5 litre GP cars that raced 1954 - 1960.
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Taken quite late in the race, after an 'incident' between the Scarab and the Tec Mec. Tec Mec = Tecnica Meccanico Maserati, which was one of those unique exhibits in the early days of the Donington Collection, which always made it such a joy to visit.
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Whilst 'front three quarter' pics may be a bit of a bore photographically, or artistically, I make no excuse, as I really enjoy building up my library of car photographs covering as many makes and models as possible. However, I do enjoy some of the action photographs and the driver stance, or cars slightly out of shape on the track. Note the number of selected pics so far, of drivers maybe struggling with gear selection or watching the mirrors or with hands off the wheel.
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I don't think the #8 BRM made it to the grid for the race. Pity.
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I'm amazed that this Lancia D50 isn't marked as a replica or recreation, as all the originals were destroyed. Probably only of interest to the pedants, but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to accurately label or categorise some cars. Maybe the answer is to apply a disclaimer to all published pics that the car may or may not be an original?
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I have no idea Steve, as I never saw them on track! I'm sure that if you Google 'Sussex Trophy 2016' you'll get some response!
There's probably a link on the Goodwood site for a video of the race.
Here we are 5 weeks on, and I'm still wading through cataloguing and filing...
An Italian flavour for Spgeti. You can almost smell the garlic - or Castrol R.
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I didn't see this out on the track for the race.
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Red cars look so good in the Goodwood sun.
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