Goodwood Revival Friday
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Chris Harris goes second, half a second off top spot in the Ferrari 250LM.
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Top of RAC TT practice is the AC Cobra of Andrew Smith with a time of 1m34.025s. Qualifying is tomorrow but drier conditions are predicted.
These GT cars from 1963-64 have a trademark 'grunt' to them. AC Cobras, Ferrari 250 LMs and Jaguar E-Types fly by.
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The RAC TT Celebration is underway.
Action from the Richmond Trophy, where front-engined GP cars from the 1950s and '60s battle it out. Photo: Samarth Kanal
The Frazer Nash Saloon 'Owlet' from the Brooklands Trophy. Photo: Samarth Kanal
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With traffic on his final lap, Mike Jordan is unable to best Meaden's time, and can only finish the session second fastest.
David Cuff has beached an Austin A35 at Lavant, which might well stop anyone from setting a faster time in the final minutes.
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In the field is Charlie Settrington, Lord March's son, who's sharing a Jaguar Mk1 with Tony Jardine. Journalist Richard Meaden has been going faster and faster in a 1959 Alfa Romeo Guiletta Ti, and takes provisional pole of 1m 42.345s.
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And Jordan immediately demolishes that with a 1m 45.729s, and Justin Law follows up with a lap 0.9s off that.
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There's a mere 27 saloon cars on track as the sun starts to make a weak appearance! Mike Jordan currently tops the times with 1m 47.744s in his Austin A40.
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Looking outside the media centre tent (yes, an actual tent), umbrellas are up and rain hitting the windows. There's some particularly beefy looking showers approaching the Chichester area, so drivers will be keen to get a time in early.
Part 2 of the qualifying is for the 'Am' drivers, though as the Goodwood commentary team (which features Autosport Editor Kevin Turner), some of the field are definitely not amateurs. Justin Law and Mike Jordan are among those out there.
As the Ecurie Ecosse demonstration comes to an end, the assembly area is getting ready for part two of qualifying for the St Mary's Trophy.
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Ecurie Ecosse was founded in 1951 by David Murray. Ian Stewart drove for the team and won his first race in 1952 and finished second in the 1953 Nurburgring 1000kms.
Arguably its most famous moment was winning the 1956 Le Mans 24 Hours in the hands of Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson, in a Jaguar D-Type.
Murray also entered a special Lister-Jaguar for the 'Race of Two Worlds' at Monza in 1958, though the car wasn't as competitive as the standard models. A certain John Young Stewart was signed in 1963, but the team was feeling the financial strain of increased expectations after the Le Mans victory.
The team was revived in the 1980s, winning the C2 class of the World Sportscar Championship, and again in 2011. It recently won the LMP3 Cup Championship and competed one again at Le Mans, in the Road To Le Mans support race.
Well we're quite ahead of the published schedule, which means that next up should be the Ecurie Ecosse demonstration, which includes a grid walk for spectators wearing tartan.
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Frustration for Julian Bronson, as he catches slower cars at the chicane on what was a very quick looking lap.
Griffiths has a time 1.4s faster than Nick Adams in the Ferguson P99. That car was the very first 4wd Formula 1 car, which raced in the British Empire Trophy in 1961 in the hands of Jack Fairman, and again at Aintree in the British Grand Prix that year. After Stirling Moss' Lotus 18 failed, Moss climbed into the Ferguson to finish the race. Officially Moss was disqualified for outside assistance, though some felt rival teams were less happy about the 4wd technology in the faster hands of Moss...
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Miles Griffiths was pipped to the Madgwick Trophy pole in the final seconds of the session. He was out that time in a Lotus Eleven, and is on track in the Richmond Trophy in a Lotus 16, and currently has the fastest time of 1m 41.021s.
Rod Jolley is also on track in the Ecurie Ecosse Lister-Jaguar 'Monzanapolis', which competed in the 'Race of Two Worlds' in 1958. The car's previous owner held off selling the machine until Rod could raise the funds to buy it!
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On track now are front-engined Grand Prix cars from 1952-1960, competing in the Richmond Trophy. Alongside Lotus, Maserati, Ferrari, and Lancia, are names like Scarab, Kleft, and Ferguson
Photo: Jamie HowlettThe Goodwood Revival is so much more than an historic car meeting. Not only is aviation featured (a nod to the circuit's RAF Westhampnett past), but there are also period-style shops, displays, garages, and even a hairdressers! With spectators getting into the spirit and dressing in period outfits, you can really imagine what it was like when the circuit was operational.
Also in the field is a 1930 Mercedes Benz 710 sskL, a lightweight version of the ssk. Very few examples were built, though the great Rudolf Caracciola won the 1931 Mille Miglia in one. He was the first non-Italian to win the great race, and did so at a speed of 101.1 kmh.
That Alfa Romeo first competed at Brooklands in May 1933, and raced in period until 1939. It has been racing in historic events since the 1960s.
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Christopher Mann pops into second, in his 1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza.
Blakeney-Edwards is struggling to find a clean lap amongst all the traffic, but he is a remarkable 8.5s faster than Mark Gilies in the 1938 Aston Martin Brooklands.
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The first flying lap is the fastest, as Patrick Blakeney-Edwards (in one of four different cars he is racing this weekend), sets a time of 1m 57.555s, in the 1928 Fraser Nash Saloon, known affectionately as 'The Owlett'.
In the field is a 1925 Vauxhall 30/98 Brooklands Special, owned by Gregor Fisken and driven by Robert Fellows. Bear in mind this isn't a parade or a demonstration, these 90-year old cars are being raced this weekend.
Not quite sure where the day is disappearing to, but there's no pause in incredible action on track, as the Brooklands Trophy is next up, featuring glorious machines that lapped the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit.
Jochen Mass took the sole Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing up to eighth, 6s off the top.
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1.538s separated the top three in that session.
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Chris Ward takes pole position for the Freddie March Memorial Trophy, his time of 1m51.321s enough to put the Cooper-Jaguar T33 at the top. Rob Hall takes second, and Steve Boultbee Brooks third.
We've seen spins and offs at the end of the last three qualifying sessions, showing just how hard these drivers push when there's a time to beat.
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Eddie McGuire loses a wheel as his sky-blue Gordini Type 23S spins out.
Can anybody beat Chris Ward's effort of 1m51.575s? Doesn't seem that way as Ward is 1.192s clear of Rob Hall.
Times are again tumbling as the track continues to dry.
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Chris Ward takes pole with a 1m53.060s now! A whole second ahead of that Aston DB3. Ward's Cooper-Jaguar T33 has the power over the DB3 and it's paying off.
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Chris Ward edges to second with a 1m56.344s but that's still 2s off the pole time of Hall.
That Aston DB3 hasn't spent a moment in understeer. It looks very, very greasy out there.
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