Morning Symphony: The Spirit Of The 1960s At Goodwood


Morning Symphony: The Spirit Of The 1960s At Goodwood

Some cars you immediately recognize: Corvette Stingrays, Shelby Mustangs, Cobras, Jaguar E-Types. Others you might need a little bit of help: the Ginetta, the TVR Griffiths, the Porsche 904s and yes, that is indeed a Ferrari 250GTO, the same kind of Ferrari that has traded hands for as much as $70,000,000. All of these cars are blisteringly collectable, rare, important, and sought-after in their own regards, yet here they are ripping around the Goodwood circuit as if there’s money on the line. There isn’t, really…what you are looking at is the 45-minute race for the Graham Hill trophy that Goodwood offers up to cars of this era.

Take it from the viewpoint of a child of the 1980s: you can be told all about the exploits of the likes of Ken Miles, Carroll Shelby, Mark Donohue and others, you can be told all about the sight of these cars as they slid doorhandle-to-doorhandle on the world’s circuits, but storytelling only goes so far. To see a car the size of the TVR barking out a Ford V8 song, to watch as an AC Cobra puts on a demonstration on why it has such a reputation, to actually see a 250GTO driven in the manner that Enzo Ferrari damn well intended…no story will ever really capture the scene quite like seeing and hearing. The only way to do better is to be trackside as you smell the exhaust!


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One thought on “Morning Symphony: The Spirit Of The 1960s At Goodwood

  1. Gavin

    These Goodwood videos are awesome, and thanks so much for posting them up. I\’m amazed by how the drivers basically drift these classics into the corners. I don\’t recall in vintage footage of the day, ever seeing race car drivers throw their cars into corners like that, though I may be wrong. The current owners and drivers who are willing to give these irreplaceable classics \”a right good caning\” on this course have my gratitude. This type of racing with this level of cars is surely one of the finest things in life to behold.

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