Formula 1 racers, GTs and touring cars all provided some fine moments in what has been one of the biggest events of the racing calendar since 1998.
It’s not all about the frontrunners, which were covered in our main report, so here we pick out some of the cars and moments that you might have missed…
An F1 champion races his E-type
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Photo by: Jeff Bloxham
The last E-type built by Jaguar specialist Dick Protheroe, for Ed Nelson (who campaigned it internationally in 1966 as 105 ENX), was debuted by new owner Jenson Button in the RAC TT Celebration.
Following Protheroe’s fatal Ferrari 330P accident at Oulton Park in April 1966, his racer widow Rosemary (nee Massey, of tractor family fame) bought the Jaguar. She re-registered it CUT 8 in sequence with CUT 7 – which had graced Dick’s three E-types – and finished it in his colours.
Rhoddy Harvey-Bailey and Nelson raced CUT 8 for her, before Peter Walker bought it. It was last seen at Goodwood in 2013. Chris Buncombe and 2009 world champion Button took the car to 10th in the TT for 1963-64 GTs and prototypes.
Indy Lotus leads Clark gathering
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Sixty years after his remarkable 1965 campaign that encompassed the F1 world title and Indianapolis 500 success, Jim Clark was celebrated with a special parade (and some sheep on-track!).
Among the pack of around 30 cars was the Lotus 38 that the Scottish farmer took to his Indy victory, becoming the first to average 150mph over the 500 miles. Triple Indy winner Dario Franchitti, wearing a replica of Clark’s race suit, drove the car, which was joined by the similar machine Clark used in the 1967 edition of America’s greatest race.
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Across the weekend, 1996 world champion Damon Hill and F1 pundit Karun Chandhok also drove in the parade. Other star cars included the Lotus Cortina that Clark took to the 1964 British Saloon Car title, Lotus 33 chassis 11 in which he won the Belgian, British and German GPs on his way to the 1965 F1 crown, and an ex-Graham Hill Lotus 49, representing the four GP wins Clark took with the Cosworth DFV-engined pioneer in 1967.
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Keen stars in Porsche against Can-Am grunt
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British GT ace Phil Keen got among the big bangers in the Whitsun Trophy for pre-1967 sports-prototypes with the Nick Morfett-entered Porsche 910.
Renowned UK preparation specialist Historika Klassik Porsche’s prototype division created this magnificent toolroom copy of the fibreglass-clad tubeframe chassised racer.
The model won the Targa Florio and Nurburgring 1000Km rounds of the 1967 world sportscar championship but was up against cars with more than twice the cubic capacity at Goodwood, chiefly V8-engined Lolas and McLarens.
The two-litre flat-six Porsche was the smallest-engined car in the race but Keen qualified seventh. He initially fell to eighth before working his way forward, taking fifth from Michael O’Brien’s Lotus 30 shortly after half-distance.
That became fourth when runaway leader Nick Padmore’s Lola T70 retired with just over two minutes to go. Keen got faster and faster with the nimble Porsche, recording a 1m22.400s on the final lap.
Historika Klassik Porsche, founded by Kevin Morfett in 1998, has geared up tooling to offer an exclusive limited edition run of the 910, with factory approval.
Le Mans podium finisher returns
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Similar to Louis Delage’s pre-Second World War GP cars, six D6-3Ls were built post-war. Vintage Sports-Car Club racer Mark Brett’s 1947 example has a sensational history.
Owner Henri Louveau finished sixth the 1947 Italian GP, second in the 1949 Le Mans and Spa 24 Hour races, and seventh at Le Mans in 1950 on a busy CV for D6-3L #880004.
Subsequently rebodied as a coupe, it was acquired, derelict, at a US museum sale 18 months ago. Brett commissioned new coachwork to the original pattern and Jeremy Brewster rebuilt the engine.
Given it had barely run until Thursday, 14th place in the Goodwood Trophy was remarkable.
Porsche 904s back on track
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Two of the four Porsche 904/6 Carrera GTSs in the Fordwater Trophy finished first and second in the two-litre GT category in the 1965 Reims 12 Hours.
Jason Barron’s British Racing Green example, chassis 085, finished sixth overall in the French enduro, driven by Mike de Udy and Australian Paul Hawkins. Sister car 081, supplied by French Porsche importer Sonuuto, was classified 10th, crewed by owner Andre Potier – who mainly rallied it – and Claude Barbier.
Owned and restored by Historika Klassik, 081 won at Goodwood on Saturday, Andrew Smith reprising Olly Bryant’s victory at the 2021 Members’ Meeting, while Barron came home 19th.
Alfa Romeo’s centenary celebration
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Many F1 fans know that Alfa Romeo’s Giuseppe Farina took the inaugural drivers’ crown in 1950, but the famous Italian marque had won the first world manufacturers’ championship 25 years before.
The centenary of that title and Alfa’s racing heritage was marked with a collection of some of its finest competition cars at Goodwood. An array of 8Cs included cars that scored successes at Le Mans, the Mille Miglia and in grand prix racing.
The original RL TF prototype was the car in which Enzo Ferrari scored his first win as a driver, while Giulia GTA (one formerly driven by 1970 F1 world champion Jochen Rindt), TZ and TZ2 models represented Alfa Romeo’s touring car and GT successes of the 1960s and 1970s.
The most recent design was a 33/TT/3 that contested the 1972 world sportscar championship, the precursor to Alfa Romeo’s T33/TT/12 that dominated the 1975 campaign.
Swift gives Aurora-BMC an outing
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Designed and built by the Aurora Gearing Co – racing siblings Trevor and Anita Taylor’s family firm – the rear-engined Aurora sportscar was built around an 1150cc BMC engine and Mini components.
Standing 29 inches tall, the car finished fourth on its debut in the hands of Lotus F1 stalwart Trevor Taylor at Silverstone in March 1965, and 16th at Goodwood on Easter Monday. Subsequently raced by Bob Anderson and Anita, the Aurora’s only win came with John Wales in a 1969 Mallory Park clubbie.
Yet to receive its mint green/maroon livery, the car qualified 10th in the 25-car field, driven by Nick Swift, who spun it out of the Madgwick Cup race.
Rayberg shines in Formula Junior
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The unique 1959 Rayberg Formula Junior was the brainchild of UK-domiciled Swede Sten ‘Tammy’ Aberg, sometime mechanic on Denis Poore’s ex-Hans Ruesch Alfa Romeo 8C-35 and for Connaught in Surrey. Aberg was also a very rapid autocrosser in the late 1960s, at the wheel of an outwardly extraordinarily scruffy Jaguar XK120 coupe!
Utilising some Cooper components and a front-mounted Downton-tuned BMC engine, the beautifully proportioned Rayberg illustrates the rich vein of engineering talent that coloured and underpinned the 1958-63 category.
Long owned by Dutchman Floris-Jan Hekker, the highly polished machine delights wherever it competes. It finished 18th in the Chichester Cup.
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