Goodwood Revival 2019

Now in its 21st year, the Goodwood Revival continues to be the premier historic motorsport event, attracting cars and drivers from all over the world. Goodwood is still a wonderfully original fast flowing circuit which has not been altered to in any substantial way from its original form which was used between 1948 and 1966. However, with lap times tumbling and car damage increasing over recent years the organisers took a tougher stance on driving standards this year and this actually benefitted the racing, which was as high-speed and hard fought as ever. Here is our pick of images from the most elegant motorsport event in the world. Words and pictures John Lakey Goodwood attracts the greats of the motor sport world and here 5 stars - David Brabham, Derek Bell, Jeff Gordon, Tom Kristensen and Dario Franchitti honour Sir Stirling Moss' 90th birthday before the high speed parade of Stirling's greatest cars. The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, whose garden this event takes place in, driving an Aston Martin DBR1 with Stirling's wife, Lady Susie Moss. The Kinrara Trophy kicked off the Revival on Friday night. Often called the most beautiful race in the world it's for GT cars of 3-litres and over made prior to 1963. Fittingly it was won by the car most consider the most beautiful and certainly the most valuable, the Ferrari GTO of Gary Pearson and Andrew Smith raced into the sunset from the 6.30pm start and led from the first corner as the picture below shows. Goodwood's impressively well coiffured Grid Girls have taken the choreography (there really is no other word for it) of walking to the grid, escorted by a Military Policeman, to new heights and become a show within the giant show that is the Revival. It doesn't detract from the serious business of motorsport, however, and there was nothing more serious than the Revival's most prestigious race, the RAC TT Celebration, which featured sports and prototype cars made before 1964. The ground shook as the assembled V8 Cobras, Bizzarinis TVRs and Tigers all accelerated away from the start towards an hour of frantic high-speed battling. That tight close racing may be the glue that holds this event together but the Revival Car Show and the period fashions of those attending such as Stuart Grant from Scotland and Amy Fu from Sydney Australia with their 1973 V12 Jaguar E-type Series 3 manual. However, there was a twist, just as competitors had in the early days of the Le Mans 24 hour race, cars were required to run at least 2 laps before entering the pits and stowing away their hood before rejoining the fray. Bentley's almost locomotive-like over-engineering is as far removed as its possible to be from celebrating another anniversary, the 60th anniversary of the Mini, with a parade led by Paddy Hopkirk and Rauno Aaltonen in the Mini Paddy had won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in. Billy Monger took part in both the Mini and Cooper Car company parades in a Mini converted to hand controls by Nick Swift. Monger said he'd had a fabulous weekend and would love to race at the Revival next year. Cooper were the featured marque, best known now for adding some F1 glamour to a weirdly unconventional little car designed Alec Issigonis and thus creating the Mini Cooper, they in fact built a huge array of racing cars. Their small rear engined F1 cars made the big front engined 2.5-litre cars from Ferrari and Maserati seem old fashioned and Jack Brabham's first F1 World Championship, in 1959, confirmed the changing of the 'guard' and is in some ways the foundation for the booming F1 industry Britain now enjoys. However, the family started by building Specials and this is the first 'Cooper-Austin Mk1', built in 1937 by Charles Cooper for his then 12 year old son John, and the start of a legend... Shown here leading some of the car's it inspired. The first race for professional drivers initially lasted less than a lap as 72 year old former Skoda rally ace John Haugland lost his Volvo PV444 in the tightly packed group and hit the tyre barriers at the exit of Fordwater corner. The first race for professional drivers initially lasted less than a lap as 72 year old former Skoda rally ace John Haugland lost his Volvo PV444 in the tightly packed group and hit the tyre barriers at the exit of Fordwater corner. Mike Jordan's (Andrew's dad) A40 was thus the aggregate winner. An epic race long battle between Mini Marcos of Nick Swift, which hand superior handling and braking, and the Elan of Robert Barrie which has superior power was a highlight. The Lotus eventually edged the Marcos. The Goodwood estate was used as a base for D Day and on Saturday and Sunday the racetrack was transformed into a moving (in more ways than one) display in tribute to the men, women and machines of D Day, on land sea and air.