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The Goodwood course might be narrow, but many of the drivers pushed their cars hard. (LAT photo) ยป More Photos
This was the first time I’ve ever been invited to the Festival of Speed, in spite of the fact it’s been going for 18 years, and it was everything I was told it would be and more. It is the most spectacular event and I can’t tell anybody enough – if you have a week off to go you should, as it is worthwhile.
The hill is really Lord March’s front drive. It is very narrow and quite twisty, and there are lots of things to hit – including a big stone wall. I was lucky enough to be invited to drive a Lola T332, which is a Formula 5000 car of 1974 vintage, and also a ’72 Lola T310 Can-Am car. It was not my favorite car at the time as it was incredibly wide and flat, and it hasn’t improved since! It’s still a pig to drive….
The F5000 chassis was Hogan Racing car owned by a guy called Frank Lyons, who has quite a stable – two or three F5000 cars, and two or three F1 cars. They race all summer, and I don’t know what Frank Lyons does for a living but whatever he does, he’s doing it right! The guy that owned the Can-Am car was a guy called Vic Nutter, who also races a lot in England in historic Formula 1 series. He’s got all sorts of old cars, and used to own a bunch of F1 Tyrrells.
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There were 90,000 spectators there, all of them prepaid, as you can’t buy tickets on the gate. I haven’t signed so many autographs in a long time. A lot of people said “we’ve been waiting for you to come here” and showed me photographs that I’ve never even seen before! I was there for hours on end. The Germans – as they are in life – were particularly well-organized. They arrived with special autograph briefcases, full of stuff to sign, with a full biography of your career, date of birth, and so on.
Lord March does do an amazing job there, as the logistics of this thing must be unbelievable. There must have been 100 people on the guest list I was on, all from around the world. He flies us in (on good seats), puts us all in hotels, gets the rental cars and so on. Among familiar faces were Bobby Unser, Bobby Allison, Derek Bell and Brian Redman, we had an absolute ball.
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