RE: Easter Blog: PH goes racing at Goodwood

[TobesH]

A great day! I got soaked and froze my extremities off. All credit to my lovely friend Rachael, who works for GRRC and managed to sell a few programmes and keep her chin up in the freezing cold.

Good work guys! I will enter next year, time for the Seven to come out of his winter hibernation

[TobesH]

Lagerlout said:

Would love to see the times/results if someone can post them!

On TSL - see body of article. T

[Digga]

Nice driving, I imagine Goodwood is a tricky circuit in those conditions. I've only ever driven it dry or drying.

All of which reminds me - that kink at 1m24s on the Lavant 'straight' used to be flat at 120+mph in 5th in the dry in the old TVR warhorse but it would momentarily break traction.

[TobesH]

Digga said:

Nice driving, I imagine Goodwood is a tricky circuit in those conditions. I've only ever driven it dry or drying.

All of which reminds me - that kink at 1m24s on the Lavant 'straight' used to be flat at 120+mph in 5th in the dry in the old TVR warhorse but it would momentarily break traction.

I had opposite lock at 100+ mph on the Lavant straight kink in poring rain last autumn. I had so little traction but it was so much fun. Very few people turned up; it was an open pit lane test. I ran out of puff, I was shattered. T

[tommy vercetti]

Nice video, looks like you had a good day out. Nice pictures iva cosworth. That Aston looks like it's changing to white as it's driving along.

[Nightmare]

that was a pretty damn ballsy drive in someone else's unfamiliar car in the pouring rain with standing water - nice quick hands in a few places! top work sir

[sc4589]

I turned up but had no idea the Lotus was PH-based!

The aforementioned Lotus, didn't spot the PH sticker because I saw the blue GT40 and got distracted...





I was amazed at how quiet the Lotus was at idle. We saw it crawling off to do a lap and you could barely hear it... not like the Prodrive V8 Vantage we asked to blip the throttle momentarily!





































The guy who went out in the ancient car was a fking nutter! saw it going down the track hell for leather... didn't miss a beat. Loved the Rapid Fit Mondeo and Cavalier that were going for it- the Cav was massively quick and sounded glorious.

Kudos to the guys who let me prod and poke at the interiors & exteriors of their Porsches (white GT3 RS 3.8 & yellow 996 GT3). Much appreciated, you've made me a happy lad for a while.

A good day was had!

[TinyCappo]

who was the batst crazy person who was going everywhere sideways in a morse jaguar?

[david_b]

TinyCappo said:

who was the batst crazy person who was going everywhere sideways in a morse jaguar?

Grant Williams, he's a regular at the FoS and Revival. The Jaguar he was driving ("BUY 1") is a Mk1 not a Mk2, by the way, so not the same as Morse's

[TinyCappo]

Thats the guy. Car 60. He came at the 2nd to last corner at frightenening speed and at about 30' for well over 2-300ft. He made it look easy.

[david_b]

TinyCappo said:

Thats the guy. Car 60. He came at the 2nd to last corner at frightenening speed and at about 30' for well over 2-300ft. He made it look easy.

Indeed, most impressive!

Slightly OT, but this is one of my favourite pics, I took this at the first corner at the FoS back in 08:


Sideways Jaguar Mk1 by david_b, on Flickr

[squirejo]

Sc4589-a pleasure. Hanks for the photos. There were a few moments when the interior smelled of poo rather than new as you remarked. If only for the traction control of the lotus I'd have beaten Dan :-) , but, a pleasing result in a car I have owned for about 5 mins. Nice that some spectators braved the weather. After all, none of the entrants wimped out and we were paying for the privilege!

[sc4589]

squirejo said:

Sc4589-a pleasure. Hanks for the photos. There were a few moments when the interior smelled of poo rather than new as you remarked. If only for the traction control of the lotus I'd have beaten Dan :-) , but, a pleasing result in a car I have owned for about 5 mins. Nice that some spectators braved the weather. After all, none of the entrants wimped out and we were paying for the privilege!

Glad you finally got out after that poor sod in the Caterham junked it! Cheers again for letting me poke around, loved that 996- a truly stunning example.

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