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DECEMBER 2017 DECEMBER 2017 NO. 37 N o .37

I’M A CLUB MEMBER Are you a racing fan or simply a car enthusiast? I have always loved cars, and I enjoy historic racing as SHANE WHIFFEN (GRRC-34916) you can admire the skill of the drivers rather than the focus being on the technology, which is sadly the case 2018 A relatively new Member, Shane has with a lot of modern motorsport categories. At the thrown himself into the GRRC’s driving moment my pride and joy is a Rosso Corsa DIARY DATES NEWSLETTER tours, taking part in the tours this California T, but I also have a passion for ’s RS year, and plans on heading to Spain models. I own an RS 6 Performance, an RS 3 and an GOODWOOD ROAD RACING CLUB and Le Mans with the Club in 2018 RS Q3 – what I really like about them is that they 6 FEBRUARY are all understated, comfortable and fantastically fast. Kennels Social I have had a couple of Bentley Continentals in the past, Just pop in How did you first get to know Goodwood? a W12 GT and a GT Speed, but they weren’t practical Over the past few years I have taken some of my enough for me so I decided to sell them. If I was more 4 MARCH clients to the Festival of Speed. They love the mechanically minded, I would love to add an historic seven days in Italy, driving on great roads and Autosolo at Goodwood event and the hospitality and look forward to it car to my collection. staying in beautiful hotels. Part of the reason Book now every summer. Before that I had visited the I enjoy the tours so much is because you meet Festival as a customer of both Audi and Bentley. How much have you been involved in the fellow GRRC Members. The Club is made up of The event was always so enjoyable that, four years Club’s activities and events? such a diverse group of people but everyone is so 17-18 MARCH ago, I decided to fill in a membership form at the I really enjoy the driving tours that the Club organises friendly and passionate, and these events are as 76th Members’ Meeting Members’ Meeting, and a few years later I became and this year I’ve done both trips to Italy. First was much about the people as the cars. We plan on Tickets now on sale! a full Member of the GRRC. Everything is so well the tour of Tuscany at the wheel of some stunning doing the Spanish tour and the trip to Le Mans organised at Goodwood, and the attention to classic and Mercedes models. For the Italia next year. It was worth waiting to become a 28 MARCH detail is amazing. The whole place is spick and span Panoramica tour, it felt only right to take the Ferrari Member of the Club, just to get the opportunity 105dB Track Day and the events and driving tours are so well run. back to its home, and we really enjoyed spending to do the tours. Book now 28 MARCH MSA National B Licence Package GRRC BENEFITS Book now DON’T FORGET TO 2 APRIL ARE YOU MAKING THE MOST RENEW! Spring Sprint DECEMBER 31 Book now OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP? 24-28 APRIL* Italy Supercar Valley Trip THE KENNELS ONLINE CONTENT ESTATE DISCOUNTS Register your interest now Access to The Kennels, Live streams and access to 15% discount on selected REVIVAL BOOK the clubhouse for all GRRC previously aired live streams Goodwood and GRRC Members and your home from all three headline events Merchandise, plus selected 20 GLORIOUS YEARS! 8-11 MAY from home at Goodwood. and up to 15 on-board Motor Circuit Experiences. French Riviera Classic Driving Tour Register your interest now cameras per race from the 10% discount on selected Amazingly, this year’s Revival meeting was COMPETITIONS Members’ Meeting and motorsport and horse-racing the 20th, and to celebrate this, a beautifully The Beta Montecarlo Year-round competitions to Revival. Regular uploads hospitality, daily Richmond produced, gilt-edged 250-page book, Twenty 12-13 MAY of (right) starts attend exclusive factory from Goodwood’s motorsport Enclosure badges (excl. Glorious Years, will be released in time for Historique Package on the front row alongside tours and opportunities with archive and exclusive weekly Glorious Goodwood) and Christmas. Available from the Goodwood Register your interest now ’s Capri

Goodwood’s partners. videos, plus regular video Gordon Enclosure tickets. Shop for a discounted, Members-only price Meeting race named in his honour a Members’ one not to have the only Fangio – he’s Manuel at the round of the Look out for details in the updates from the Duke of 10% discount on a Warbird of £25, it won’t tell a linear history of the 1981 DRM season newsletter and in emails. Richmond. aviation experience. event, but will instead take a playful look at Juan 21 MAY 15% discount on all how the Revival has brought back racing, 10) 105dB Track Day COMPLIMENTARY RACING RECIPROCALS Waterbeach spa treatments important cars, star drivers and period Book now THURSDAY FoS TICKETS Wear your GRRC badge for (Monday to Thursday). fashion to the Motor Circuit. The book will 76th MEMBERS’ MEETING, 17-18 MARCH Free tickets to the Thursday free Richmond Enclosure 20% discount on the make the perfect gift for any Goodwood fan. 12-15 JULY* of FoS (two for Adult access at Goodwood facility fee when booking Festival of Speed Members and four for Family Racecourse on selected horse exclusive events and Tickets now on sale! Members). Call the Ticket racing days throughout the celebratory functions at Office on +44(0)1243 755055. 2018 season. Goodwood House. Le Mans Kristensen, Tom 9) 23 JULY SPECIAL FORCES 105dB Track Day A pack of ‘Special Production’ cars from the late 1970s and early ’80s will gather Book now at Goodwood for a thrilling high-speed demonstration at the 76th Members’ Meeting CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS Anthony Reid Anthony

8) 12 AUGUST A GOODWOOD CHRISTMAS Ever since the revived Members’ Meeting began in 2014, the changed again in 1982, the 935 had racked up wins in some of GRRC Open Day TVR on-track high-speed demonstrations have proved as popular motorsport’s most iconic races including the Le Mans 24 Hours, Save the date This Christmas, give someone a truly memorable 7) as the competitive racing, and the demos at next year’s 76th the Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours, as well as winning B gift – a Goodwood experience. Whether it’s a Members’ Meeting promise to be some of the most exciting yet. the World Championship for Makes four times. 6) golf lesson with a pro for a keen beginner, an C 7-9 SEPTEMBER In March, a gathering of bewinged, flame-spitting Group 5 Naturally, a number of 935 variants will be present at the

adrenaline-fuelled driving experience for a 5) Revival ‘Special Production’ cars will take to the circuit each day for a Members’ Meeting, charging around the Motor Circuit alongside

petrolhead, a thrilling flying lesson for a would-be C Tickets now on sale! thrilling high-speed demonstration, with many of the cars’ a selection of period rivals. While the exact entry list for the

pilot or a GRRC Fellowship voucher for a fellow 4) original drivers getting back behind the wheel. high-speed demonstration is yet to be confirmed, you can expect motoring enthusiast, there is a diverse range to suit A

3) These remarkable machines were introduced for the 1976 to see examples of Ford’s outrageous Zakspeed Capri, which was all tastes. Our shop also has a great range of gifts

A 23 SEPT-2 OCT* season, when the FIA heavily revised Group 5 regulations. This driven with considerable success by Klaus Ludwig in ’s for all sporting enthusiasts. Iberian Peninsula Driving Tour 2) Get inspired by visiting goodwood.com/christmas, updated, less restrictive set of rules allowed manufacturers to DRM series (above), and the Lancia Beta Montecarlo, which was

B Book now extensively modify even the most humble of road cars, creating occasionally raced by Torbolton house captain

or your membership home online, to access 15 per 1)

cent off selected merchandise. some of the most extreme racing machines of all time. in the early 1980s. Other cars likely to attend include the wacky To help celebrate the Club’s 20th 28 OCTOBER The most famous of these cars, ’s mighty 935, BMW 320 Turbo, and one of the few naturally aspirated Group 5 Anniversary, send your memories of the GRRC Autosolo dominated the period in the hands of both the factory team and machines, Ferrari’s flat-12-powered 512 BB LM. th Estate, Motor Circuit and the GRRC to Book now Expect to see cars like this incredible Amilcar Hispano-Suiza in a privateers, winning on its competitive debut at Mugello with Tickets to see these incredible machines in action at the 76 For further information and a full calendar of Club events, [email protected] for us to new Members’ Meeting race, the Bolster Cup, which will feature Members’ Meeting house captain and six-time Members’ Meeting are on sale now, and you can take advantage

please visit the GRRC event pages at goodwood.com share throughout 2018 QUIZ ANSWERS: *Provisional dates pre- and post-war modified vintage cars and racing specials Le Mans winner at the wheel. By the time the rules of the early-bird prices if you book before 31 December.

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MORGAN CHRISTMAS The Morgan Motor Company Ltd. fired up its first vehicle in 1909. Today, building three- and QUIZ TIME! four-wheel vehicles, Morgan FIELD WORK is the last family-owned British motor manufacturer. Henry Bass, the Event General Manager at the Revival, Think you know your Alvis from your Elva, explains how his team meets the challenges of looking your from your ? CATERHAM after 150,000 customers at the Revival each September Test your motorsport knowledge with our This year ’s just-for-fun festive quiz (the answers are on famous Seven celebrates its 60th birthday. Caterham the back page, next to the Diary Dates) has been building the car We run all our Goodwood We also use metal trackway, since 1973, ranging today motorsport events with our but this is not a long-term from the entry-level 80bhp own in-house team. We don’t solution because it causes 160, to the 310bhp 620S. ‘outsource’ these skills, we ground compaction and soil 1. An easy one to start with – at the Revival meet the challenges ourselves, damage and, when it becomes this year we celebrated the team, which was based where? and all our contractors are uneven, it can cause damage to 7. WHAT AM I? required to work with us vehicles. The metal surface Founded in Blackpool in A In a village ten miles north of Paris within strict guidelines. also becomes very slippery 1947, this marque has B In a cobbled mews in Edinburgh We have a team of event when muddy. produced many glorious C At Ingliston racing circuit sports cars. It launched planners who work throughout After each event we debrief an all-new Gordon the year on all three of our comprehensively, and we learnt Murray-designed model events. Each planner has an lessons this year that will lead 2. At the Festival we celebrated 50 years of the at the Revival this year. area of responsibility, from to a significant investment in DFV, the most successful race engine of all traffic management and the car parks over the next two time. Who founded the company that made it? parking to power generation years. As part of that we are and plumbing. now looking at using a plastic THE MISSING PIECE We work round the clock at gridding solution. This It has been another exciting the Revival, with separate day provides a firmer surface year during which we have seen and night shifts. This allows while protecting the grass. ‘BEAUTIFUL SCENERY, FANTASTIC us to react to challenges and Event planning demands unprecedented support for all EMANUELE PIRRO problems, which do occur flexibility, especially in bad three events, and for the new Pirro made his Formula 1 when you have the population weather, so we have tractors debut in 1989, but it was at developments at the GRRC. ROADS AND WONDERFUL HOTELS’ of a small city coming to the on standby to move cars in Le Mans where he enjoyed My Festival of Speed highlights Motor Circuit. This year, for muddy areas and we have extra his greatest successes, with example, wet weather before trackway for entry and exit five wins. At the Members’ included Ferrari’s 70th anniversary Meeting he will once again In September the GRRC travelled to Italy for the last driving and during the event presented lanes. Our expert contractors celebration, and welcoming Bernie captain Torbolton House. tour of 2017. The Italia Panoramica tour was inspired by one difficulties in the car parks. are all involved in outdoor A Keith Duckworth and Ecclestone to the event for the of motorsport’s most famous road races, the , as Parking thousands of cars in events throughout the country B Colin Chapman and Mario Illien first time. He brought along some Members cruised along some of Italy’s most beautiful roads, fields in wet weather presents so together with them we react C Keith Costin and Mike Duckworth NICOLAS MINASSIAN passing through the Italian Riviera, Umbria and Tuscany some challenges! This year we to conditions as we see them Endurance racing ace wonderful Formula 1 cars from Minassian leads the charge used crushed stone tracks in developing from day to day. his collection, and said he thought 3. Which car manufacturer celebrated its for Aubigny House at the Car Park A, these being All of us at Goodwood are Members’ Meeting. Like all 70th birthday at the Festival this year? that the Festival weekend was ALL ABOUT THE CARS privilege to have visited such a stunning aesthetically acceptable to passionate about providing Aubignians, he enjoys the ‘absolutely super’. ‘The cars are the focal point of the tours, part of the country.’ Adrian & Hazel both the Estate and the South the best possible customer finer things in life – art, A Ferrari literature and beautiful cars. but it’s a bonus that you’re surrounded by Clements – GRRC-11689 Downs National Park. We now experience, and we are already At the Revival, seeing Tony B Porsche like-minded people, fantastic driving roads, plan to use these stone tracks hard at work ahead of the Brooks back in the cockpit of his C Lotus awe-inspiring scenery and some of the AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE in Car Parks B and C subject Members’ Meeting in March. was a wonderful moment, best hotels in the country. What more Beautiful scenery, fantastic roads and to planning consent from the As ever, we hope for some 8. WHO AM I? and the racing was fantastic could you want from life?’ wonderful hotels made this trip to NORTH OF THE BORDER local authority. good weather! 4. The Fiat S76 thrilled Goodwood crowds at I am captain of the most Jim & Angie Reynolds – GRRC-27095 Italy truly special. Combined with For the final regional drive of the year, the GRRC team the Members’ Meeting and Festival of Speed in successful House ever at despite some challenging weather. the Goodwood Members’ great organisation, it was a magical headed up to Scotland, meeting local Members to enjoy 2017. What’s the capacity of its engine? Next year is very special, as Meeting. I have raced for LIKE-MINDED MEMBERS experience. My wife and I can’t wait some of the country’s best driving roads. The drive wound teams such as Ford, MG we will be celebrating the 25th ‘We had a wonderful time in Italy and for next year!” Rob Barker – through the Kielder Forest and Kielder Water, which ME AND MY CAR A 28.8 litres and Nissan in the British anniversary of the Festival of made some fantastic friends. It was a GRRC-31776 provided some excellent photo opportunities. The group B 24.8 litres Touring Car Championship. Speed and the 20th anniversary also got the chance to visit The Room in Duns, 1963 DAIMLER SP250 SPECIAL C 28.4 litres Please find enclosed the booking forms for some of our 2018 tours topping off a fabulous day. of both the Revival and the GRRC. 5. Who said this? The Festival’s Silver Jubilee ‘I bought the car 40 years ago but wrote it off, so I decided to have 1997 JACK gives us a chance to recall some it rebuilt as a Special,’ explains Sean Mooney (GRRC-29190). ‘The 2000 of the best moments of the last damage was mainly cosmetic, so I took it to Steve McFarlane who made a new aluminium body based on the Le Mans. 2001 SELWYN EDGE 25 years – and to organise some ‘GIVE ME GOODWOOD ON He made a beautiful job of it, and we finished it off with a radiator 2002 exciting surprises. grille as a reminder of the car’s Daimler origins. We moved the A SUMMER’S DAY AND As ever, I hope that you are all KARTING CAPERS WITH THE GRRC engine and gearbox back by a foot, which has helped the balance. 2003 GERRY MARSHALL looking forward to the Christmas On 17 November more than 100 Members descended It’s fast as well, powered by a lovely little hemi-headed Daimler YOU CAN KEEP THE REST’ 2004 BRUCE McLAREN on Daytona Park, Sandown for the Club’s inaugural V8. It’s turned out to be such an interesting project, I’m really glad Ball – a fitting way to celebrate the karting event – a two-hour team endurance race I decided to take it on, rather than just taking the money for the 2005 ACHILLE VARZI last lap of our sporting season. write-off from the insurance company.’ A Sir Under a dark winter sky, 25 karts charged their way around 2008 JACK SEARS B Chris Evans the tight Daytona Park circuit, with the teams aiming to 2013 JIM CLARK C Roy Salvadori complete as many laps as possible in the two-hour race. The O’Neill & Sons team proved unbeatable, taking a dominant 9. Which Revival star 10. Who is the odd victory from pole position, completing 135 laps. They were 6. At the Members’ Meeting a special one-make took glory racing man out (at least for followed across the line by our own Goodwood Road & race, the Scott Brown Trophy, took place, but around the clock on now) and why? THE DUKE OF RICHMOND Racing team, comprised of 2013 BTCC Champion Andrew which marque did the race celebrate? these dates, and where Jordan, Goodwood lap record holder Nick Padmore, did they achieve it? event commentator Henry Hope-Frost and Ben Miles, A Jaguar Goodwood’s Digital Content Manager. Keep an eye on the B Lister Goodwood Road & Racing website for a video of the event. C Ginetta

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