Cigarette, anyone?
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
With the attendance figures over the three days of the Goodwood Festival of Speed touching 200 thousand people you do need to get there early to avoid the traffic and, from my point of view, to get the shots before the crowds descend on mass but it is worth the effort. I managed to make the Cartier lawn by 07.05am on Friday to grab some shots even before the team of car prepares had arrived. Just me and a field of stunning Maseratis. It’s worth delaying the second cup of coffee of the morning.
As is usual with this annual event the entry list was diverse with some cars I have seen before and many I had not. As you saw last week many famous faces were out and about and amazingly the weather stayed kind even if the sky turned grey a few times. One the Sunday evening those of us who had stayed around for the prize giving after the prizes had been presented were invited into Goodwood house for a glass of champagne and a slice of cake, several hundred of us and all the drivers as well.
[For more background on most of the cars in the show, click on the photo if the caption reads ‘click on pic’. Ed.]
1955 Maserati A6G/54 2000 GT Coupe of Klaus Busch, one of 20 Zagato-bodied coupes. The G in the model name denotes an iron engine block G = Ghisa. Click on pic to read more.
1964 3000 GTS ATS Coupe. Entered in the Mid Engined Masterclass by D'Leteren Gallery. Behind the ATS, from the Hiroshima City Transport Museum and seen for the very first time in the UK is a Mazda RX500. Weighing just 850 Kilos and powered by a single Rotor Wankel engine of 247 BHP this mobile test bed for high speed safety was capable of 125 mph. Click on pic for full story of the ATS.
The overall winner of the Cartier Style et Luxe Concours D' Elegance was Egon Zweimuller Junior's 1953 Maserati A6GCS with coachwork by Pinin Farina. Its race breed chassis was built by Gilco and is powered by a 2.0 litre straight six engine of 170 BHP. One of only four examples built over a two year period.
1959 Maserati 5000 GT Allemano of Klaus Ochs, sold new to Hollywood star Stewart Granger. The 5000 GT was the inspiration for the line 'my Maserati does 185, I lost my license now I don't drive' in Joe Walsh's 1978 hit 'Life's been good.' Click on pic to read more.
De Tomaso Mangusta. The blue Maserati 3500 GT in the background belongs to Wolf Deiter Baumann and is one of 119 sold in 1958 and is believed to be the 1957 Paris Motor show example. For a detailed look at the De Tomaso history,click on photo.
1964 Ferrari 250 LM Stradale of Lukas Huni with the 1970 De Tomaso Mangusta of John Braithwaite behind.
1933 Mercedes-Benz 380K Erdmann and Rossi. Built for the racing driver Prince Max Schaumberg-Lippi who had specified a light-weight roadster.
1935 Mercedes 540K of Winifried Ritter. This example is a short chassis type 2 two seater, Mercedes offered three choices of chassis and 8 styles of bodywork.
Maserati MC12 Goodwood Century 100. FIA GT Champion Michael Bartels clocked the second fastest run of the weekend with this car.
One of the themes at this year's event was a celebration of Mercedes-Benz's 120 year history of motor sport. The French Grand Prix of 1914 was a Mercedes 1,2,3 and of the 6 cars built three survive. These are the three plus the 1908 Grand Prix car. Car 28 is the winning car of Christian Lautenschlager, now owned by Senator George Wingard. Click pic to read about 1914 French Grand Prix.
No longer the fastest but probably the longest car at this year’s Festival, the 1920 Sunbeam 350 HP. It was the last car to break the Land Speed record at Brooklands. In 1922 Kenelem Lee Guinness broke the record with a speed of 133.75 mph. The car was later owned by Captain (later Sir) Malcolm Campbell who broke the record at Pendine Sands in Wales with a speed of 150.86mph.
Stripes, two of the most famous racing liveries in the world! The group 5 Martini Racing Lancia Beta Monte Carlo of Stefano Macaluso and a Rothmans Porsche 956. Click on pic to read more.
1935 Renault Nervasport from the Renault Classic Collection; a straight 8 5400cc with 110 BHP. A Nervasport in the hands of Lahaye and Quatresous finished first in the Rallye Monte Carlo and also joint first (with a Bugatti) in the Liege Rome Liege race of that year.
From the Renault Collection. The 40CV Montlhery Coupe which averaged 107.50 mph over 24 hours at Montlhery in 1926. Click on pic for full story.
Probably even more famous as a livery (certainly in Great Britain) is a line of John Player Special Lotus GP cars. What a line-up of drivers names as well! Two Cosworth powered 79s and a Renault Turbo powered 98T.
Maki Cosworth F101A driven on the day by Howden Ganley.
Ferrari 333 SP as demonstrated by Christian Pescatori.
In the classic endurance racers class you would always expect to see a Ferrari 250, But in this case it is the 1959 250 GT LWB of Paul Pappalardo.
Alpine M65/A210. 1965, 1300cc, 130 plus bhp and 166 mph on the Mulsanne straight. Designed by Richard Bouleau the M65/A210 won the Nurburgring 500 km race twice in 1965 and 67. It also won its class at Reims in 1965. Now part of the Renault Collection.
Alpine Renault A442B; another stunner from the Renault Collection.
1970 5.0 liter V12 Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga as entered and driven by Franco Meiners. Mario Andretti drove a 512S to victory at Sebring and put the car on pole at Daytona.
The Gerry Judah-designed sculpture celebrated 120 years of Mercedes Motor Sport. All 160 tons of it, of which 60 tons was just to secure it behind the house which incidentally, due to health and safety rules, had to be evacuated whilst the center section was craned in. The cars on it are genuine, a W25 GP car and last year’s F1 car. Oh and by the way the rain stayed away.
Brought over from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame was the Maserati 8CTF Boyle Special. Cick on pic for full story.
British success at Le Mans. Four varieties of Jaguar D Type, with and without fin, short nose and long nose.
Dawn chorus. Maserati V8RI 1935 4.8 litre supercharged V8. This example first appeared at the 1935 Grand Prix De La Marne. Raced by Phillipe Etancelin whose crew chief was his wife. The car also won the Pau GP.
You can’t celebrate 100 years of Maserati without a 250F. This is Fangio's 1957 German GP-winning car, now in the care of Lukas Huni. Click on pic to read about 250F history.
Julian Majzub's 1938 3.0 straight 8 Alfa Romeo 308C with Walter Rothlauf's 1929 Bugatti 35C. In a line behind the Bug? Oh just some Bentley's, namely Bentley old number one, old number two and old number three! Old no 1 took victory at Le Mans in 1929 in the hands of Sir Henry (Tim) Birkin and Woolf 'Babe' Barnato and again in 1930 with Barnato and Kidston. Old number two won the 1930 Brooklands Double Twelve and was second in that years Le Mans 24 hours. Old number three finished second in the 1930 Double Twelve.
Sebastian Loeb may well have taken the fastest time of the day on Tarmac but in the air the record goes to the Hawker Hunter T7 of the Mid Air Squadron shown here with their English Electric Canberra PR9. The Hunter, following the profile of the course including the change in elevation and the rather tight first corner covered the distance in just over 9 seconds.
Nascar smoke and thunder.
Who is Winifried Ritter?