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Michael Dunlop takes the lead, McWilliams briefly falls to third but recovers, Johnson sitting third. Howie Mainwaring-Smart close behind in fourth.
McWilliams leads from pole, Gary Johnson second with a demon start from ninth, and William Dunlop third.
Lights green
'Le Mans' style start for the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy, as the riders run across track and get away on the bikes.
There's more than a few big names in this race. Michael and William Dunlop, Steve Parrish, Jeremy McWilliams, Troy Corser, Freddie Spencer, Scott Smart, and Jenny Tinmouth.
Next on track is the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy, a two-rider, two-part race. Today is part one, over 25 minutes, with both riders taking past.
Photo: LAT.
Jack Fairman runs high on the Monza banking, in the 'wrong' direction, during the 1957 Race of Two Worlds, in an Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type.
Jack Fairman runs high on the Monza banking, in the 'wrong' direction, during the 1957 Race of Two Worlds, in an Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type.
Photo: LAT.Ivor Bueb and Ron Flockhart celebrate winning the 1957 Le Mans 24 Hours with Ecurie Ecosse.
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The Jaguar D-types, long-nosed and short, sit on the grid. The fins at the back are apparently angled at three degrees to the left to compensate for the drag that the driver creates in these open-top sportscars.
Lord March is now speaking about the second Le Mans win in 1957. "That second win is not just a win for the blue Jaguar D-Types. In '57 it was a one-two triumph as Ecurie Ecosse cars finished not first, but second," he says as he recites the history of the team's and Jaguar's Le Mans wins.
The Ecurie Ecosse garages last night. Photo: Jamie Howlett.
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Sir Jackie Stewart on Ecurie Ecosse: "It's wonderful to be here. It's such a terrific event. The best collection of cars in the world, of any kind. Ecurie Ecosse put Scotland on the map of motorsport. It really went around the world waving the flag for Scotland. David Murray [founder] was an amazing man, as a private entry to get works support and win Le Mans twice is just incredbile."
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"It's absolutely fabulous to be back here after 50 years. I was here in 1957 and now 50 years later, it's emotional. All we had was a paddock and a beer tent. The emotional, internally, is fantastic. And this morning, seeing the Spitfire was too," said Ron Gaudion, former Jaguar D-type builder. Gaudion moved to Ecurie Ecosse for the 1956-58 seasons and helped build their first 10 cars, having directly engineered the team's Le Mans 24 Hours wins in that period.
The Ecosse Imps also feature, as the first single-seaters that the team built in 1966-67. The F3 cars mainly campaigned in Britain.
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Dario Franchitti is driving that Comer TS3 Transporter.
The 1962 Tojeiro Buick GT also features as a young Jackie Stewart took the helm and won in 1963. He is driving the 1957 Le Mans-winning Jaguar D-type in this parade.
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Included in the Ecurie Ecosse celebration are numerous Jaguar C-Types, including the overall winner at the 1953 Le Mans 24 Hours, the 1957 and '56 winning D-Types as well as the Comer TS3 Transporter which served as a transporter and workshop. The TS3 truck sold for £1,793,500 at auction in 2013.
Those Ecurie Ecosse cars are warming up again which means that the Ecurie Ecosse parade will start very soon.
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The Ferrari 250 GTO 1964 differs from other GTO models of the period as the shorter front area creates more drag; it has forced, cold-air induction rather than unforced warm-air induction and a slightly wider power band in its V12 engine than the previous GTO. GTOs regularly price above £20 million at auction.
Checkered flag
Gordon Shedden takes pole by just 0.036s on his final flying lap with a time of 1m25.440s. A brilliant effort from Shedden and he will start at the front in the Jaguar E-Type ahead of Frank Stippler/Andrew Newall in their Ferrari 250 GTO/64. Brilliant qualifying session.
Under a second separates the top seven, however. Rob Huff looks like he could improve from seventh place.
Two minutes remaining. Looks like Stippler/Newall will remain on pole but their Ferrari GTO is damaged.
Yellow flag
Shedden spins! Yellows are out as his Jaguar E-Type is stranded.
Gordon Shedden comes within 0.038s of the pole position time set by Frank Stippler. That Ferrari sustained some damage five minutes ago and Shedden could well take pole if he continues in this form.
Very close as the top six are separated by 0.7s in this RAC TT Celebration qualifying session.
That high-speed spin came as Newall was fighting through traffic into Woodcote.
Yellow flag
Alex Kapadia's Jaguar E-Type takes some damage and comes to a stop, then Andrew Newall spins the Ferrari 250 GTO/64. That Ferrari is currently leading qualifying.
Very scary moment as the Oliver Hart-helmed AC Cobra takes a trip through the grass with copious smoke but he hangs onto it and the AC Cobra lives to fight another lap.
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Frank Stippler takes top spot with a time of 1m25.476s, 0.126s faster than Wolfe's effort.
Leader Andrew Wolfe pits for Michael Gans to replace him. Wolfe is an established historics racer and engineer. Gans is an American historics racer who will take the Cobra round Goodwood now.
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Frank Stippler, DTM ace, is up to third just over three tenths from top spot.
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Andrew Wolfe is second-fastest, four tenths behind Ward.
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Chris Ward has set the fastest time in his Jaguar E-Type with a time of 1m25.602s. That's a full 25 seconds quicker than the rainy times set yesterday.
Green flag
The RAC TT Celebration harks back to the closed cockpit GT races held in 1963 and 1964. Qualifying is underway.
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Correction: The RAC TT Celebration will have a qualifying session before the Ecurie Ecosse parade.
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While the highlights of that pedal car race are being streamed, the bagpipers and Ecurie Ecosse cars are being warmed up for the upcoming parade which will hit the track next.
Checkered flag
After around five minutes of pedal car racing, we have a winner of the Settrington Cup. #40 pedaller Callum McWhirter is the winner from fifth on the grid. He says the secret is "to keep away from everyone."
Green flag
The pedal car race is underway. #18 leads.
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After this there will be an Ecurie Ecosse Tribute. For more on the Ecurie Ecosse collection celebrating the prolific and successful racing team, here's Autosport's story on the Revival parade:
Ecurie Ecosse to be celebrated at 2017 Goodwood Revival
Ecurie Ecosse to be celebrated at 2017 Goodwood Revival
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Facts on the Austin J40 pedal car: 32,000 were built from 1948-1971, originally made up of scrap metal from the Austin Longbridge factory. They were used as Christmas presents (of course), road safety tools and fairground rides. Top speed varies. 50 cars and 50 children will be pedalling for five whole minutes.
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