Grand Prix legends to star at Goodwood

The Williams FW07B piloted by Alan Jones and Carlos Reutemann, who fought bitterly over the title in 1980 will be re-united with Australian Jones, whose entry has merely to be formalised.

The ground-effect Williams was the first championship winning car for the current WilliamsF1 team, and the start of the dominance of one of the most successful teams in the sport's history.

Jones took the title from Reutemann and Brabham's Nelson Piquet at the second from last Grand Prix in Canada, and also won the season finale at Watkins Glan - a race Jones regards as his finest.

Amazingly, Piquet and his Cosworth-powered Brabham will also drive at the festival, and a head to head between the old rivals will no doubt be a sight to behold.

The early 80s era will be well represented in this year's Festival, the hillclimb held on the Earl of March's 0.9-mile long drive.

Renault will celebrate the announcement that they are once again to enter the F1 World Championship with a car bearing their own name, by entering their turbocharged RE60 of 1985.

Derek Warwick and Patrick Tambay, both stalwarts of the 'Regie' are being considered to drive the Renault, which was the last F1 car to bear the name of the second most successful engine manufacturer in Grand Prix history.

In addition, from the same year, 1985, McLaren International have been invited to enter their championship winning MP4/5 powered by the ground breaking TAG-Porsche turbo engine. Four-times World Champion Alain Prost has been requested to drive the car, but is as yet unconfirmed.

Furthermore, Ayrton Senna's awesome Lotus-Renault 98T from 1986 is another entry on the cards, provisonally to be piloted by the great man's team mate of that year, Johnny Dumfries.

To have three World Champions, and the car and team mate of a fourth, from this classic era would be an incredible coup for the Goodwood organisers, and add further cachet to an already successful event.