Goodwood Members’ Meeting

Photos by Jonathan Sharp

Jonathan Sharp will be back next week with his views of this year’s Members’ Meeting, and in the meantime, below, we have selected a group of Jonathan’s photos of the most interesting Grand Prix cars built from 1907 to 1953.

Although the Goodwood website claims that the Members’ Meeting (held this year on April 6-7) recreates the “atmosphere and camaraderie of the original meetings through the 1950s and 1960s”, its program is open to almost any race car from the 1907 Mors to the 2015 Alpine A450b, making it much more interesting as it literally spans the history of the automobile itself. There are plenty of classes and plenty of races in the two day event. This year the Mini’s 60th anniversary was celebrated with a special race of 60 Minis run in two heats. The fastest 15 cars from each heat would meet in the final on the Sunday.

Saturday consists of qualifying, some racing, and high speed demonstrations, while Saturday night hosts a huge party with fireworks, live music, food fests and games. Sunday is a bit more sedate, and the day’s agenda is packed with racing.

So much so, that Jonathan Sharp brings back thousands of images, and we both narrow the field down to 60 or 70 worthy photos. This week we begin with a combination of the Parnell Cup for Grand Prix and Voiturette cars of a type that raced between 1935 and 1953, the S.F. Edge Trophy for Edwardian Specials of a type that raced up to 1923, and the John Duff Trophy for vintage sports racing cars of a type that raced prior to 1930. Next week in VeloceToday we’ll run out the tin tops and sports racing cars. Keep on scrolling…

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