Featuring the Varzi Trophy Race. Photo by Joe Harding
By Gary Axon
Photography by Joe Harding and Gary Axon
With Veloce Today’s ace British reporter Jonathan Sharp off covering the inaugural Anantara Concorso Roma in Italy, our own Goodwood insider Gary Axon has stepped in to report on just a few of the many highlights from this year’s 83rd Goodwood Members’ Meeting held on April 18-19, all with a Latin flavor.
In bright spring sunshine and unseasonably high temperatures, Goodwood turned the clock back 50 years to the blistering heat of 1976 by celebrating the spirit of that year’s motor racing season, when Brits James Hunt and Barry Sheene dominated, taking the World Championships in their respective Formula 1 and MotoGP sporting disciplines. Hunt’s ’76 Championship winning McLaren M23 and arch rival Niki Lauda’s Ferrari 312T were both present, the latter proving to be one of Maranello’s most successful Formula 1 chassis of all time.