'Supercars ragged round country estate!' No, not the latest vid from our friends
TaxTheRich
but in fact an off-season bit of film from the originator of that very concept - Lord March.
'Lord March, about that 'vette embedded in your hall...'
We have Anthony Reid - who shared the drive in the fabulous Lister coupe with Chris Harris
at the Revival
- and three very powerful rear-wheel drive road cars. There's a Jaguar F-Type V8 S, an Aston Martin V12 Vantage S and a Corvette C7 Stingray. Reid is sent up the hill with flat cap and GoPros, under strict orders to switch all the driver aids off.
To which we say fair play. Goodwood's hillclimb is a narrow, bumpy and not especially accommodating piece of tarmac in the middle of the summer and bordered with hay bales. In the bleak mid-winter, greasy of surface and bereft of crowds and trackside protection, it looks a very different and altogether dicier place. OK, there are a few disinterested sheep to act as run-off halfway up but that nasty flinty wall on the other side looms menacingly and there are some very sturdy trees alongside that first corner he drifts around.
It's run against the clock and the times are very interesting too, especially given it's the one that looks the biggest handful that does particularly well.