Topic: Goodwood Revival 2017

[Carnut]

Former BRM works driver Dickie Attwood climbs out of his BRM P261. The closest I got all day to one of the "ancien pilotes".

I was invited to a car test day at the Millbrook research ground some years ago and put my name down to be driven around in an Audi S8 by a top racing driver.  The one I was allocated was Dickie Attwood!  I just couldn't get over sitting in the passenger seat being driven on a track by such a genius!  What an experience (and I thought I could drive quite fast!)

[gilescooperuk]

Just uploaded a couple of galleries to my website


Kinrara Trophy (moody evening photos)
http://www.gilescooperphotography.co.uk/p493820666


Couple of small samples below.

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and the goodwood trophy

http://www.gilescooperphotography.co.uk/p518723253

[nicanary]

Former BRM works driver Dickie Attwood climbs out of his BRM P261. The closest I got all day to one of the "ancien pilotes".

I was invited to a car test day at the MIRA research ground some years ago and put my name down to be driven around in an Audi S8 by a top racing driver.  The one I was allocated was Dickie Attwood!  I just couldn't get over sitting in the passenger seat being driven on a track by such a genius!  What an experience (and I thought I could drive quite fast!)

These guys are on a different planet, even at an advanced age. Dickie Attwood wasn't really anything special compared to his peers like Clark, Hill and Surtees. Yet as you say, it all comes so easily to them. By all accounts being a passenger of Jackie Stewart is an experience to savour, he drives in such a smooth and controlled manner that you have no idea of how fast you are really travelling, and to Stewart it's just another trip behind the wheel.

Lucky man, Carnut!

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This was an oddity in the paddock. Virtually the entire works team of 1927 Delage GP cars, including Rob Walker's ERA engined car (wasn't that destroyed in the big fire?). Yet none of them were entered in a race, there was no demonstration run, they were not part of one of the annual "themes", athough it would have been a 90th anniversary. I have no idea why they were there - they couldn't be seen by most of the public.

[nicanary]

You wait for Dick Protheroe's E-type, and then 2 come along at the same time!

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Joe Colasacco's Ferrari 1512.  I was watching as they fine-tuned the engine and the noise was extraordinary. I honestly thought it wouldn't race as there was blue smoke coming from the bottom right exhaust, but it raced OK and made the greatest sound. As I moved away I found I'd been standing next to Lord March, who'd been talking to a man in a stetson hat, presumably Colasacco or the owner.

[Iluvatar]

You wait for Dick Protheroe's E-type, and then 2 come along at the same time!

Is one of the pair a replica or what else?

[nicanary]

You wait for Dick Protheroe's E-type, and then 2 come along at the same time!

Is one of the pair a replica or what else?

Protheroe owned 3 E-types at different times. He retained the registration CUT 7 for each of these cars (this is allowed in the UK, but only one car at a time!). The present-day race cars are not road-registered, and therefore their owners have detailed them with the number plate they would have worn in period. Hence 2 cars with the same plate, each representing a car which was owned by Protheroe in the past.

[nicanary]

This car was part of the TVR stand which showcased the new model. Some of you might recognise it. TVR always had very attractive female models on their stand at Earls Court Motor Show time, it was part of their attempt to obtain maximum publicity - one year the girl was actually topless!

At the Revival TVR "revived" this theme and employed some very nubile young ladies. One of them wore pink leather hotpants - shades of Herr Flick in 'Allo 'Allo and his memories of his youth and his friends in "tight lezzer shorrts" .(*)

Unfortunately the crowds were so dense on the unveiling day that I couldn't get a photo and had to wait till Sunday, by which time the models had all gone home.

(*) Apologies to all German-speaking AP members for mild racism. I believe that this BBC comedy became quite popular both in France and Germany.

[Iluvatar]

You wait for Dick Protheroe's E-type, and then 2 come along at the same time!

Is one of the pair a replica or what else?

Protheroe owned 3 E-types at different times. He retained the registration CUT 7 for each of these cars (this is allowed in the UK, but only one car at a time!). The present-day race cars are not road-registered, and therefore their owners have detailed them with the number plate they would have worn in period. Hence 2 cars with the same plate, each representing a car which was owned by Protheroe in the past.

Ok, now it's everything clear

[nicanary]

A selection of entries in the Goodwood Trophy race.

[Carnut]

This car was part of the TVR stand which showcased the new model. Some of you might recognise it. TVR always had very attractive female models on their stand at Earls Court Motor Show time, it was part of their attempt to obtain maximum publicity - one year the girl was actually topless!

At the Revival TVR "revived" this theme and employed some very nubile young ladies. One of them wore pink leather hotpants - shades of Herr Flick in 'Allo 'Allo and his memories of his youth and his friends in "tight lezzer shorrts" .(*)

Unfortunately the crowds were so dense on the unveiling day that I couldn't get a photo and had to wait till Sunday, by which time the models had all gone home.

(*) Apologies to all German-speaking AP members for mild racism. I believe that this BBC comedy became quite popular both in France and Germany.

Thanks.
In fact the girls at Earl's Court back in the 1970s were not topless but completely naked!

And here's the car last week with the nubile young ladies in situ!:

[nicanary]

I bet you don't clean your car for weeks!

[Carnut]

I bet you don't clean your car for weeks!

Yes - pity there wasn't room to take them home with me...!

[nicanary]

More pix. The Aston Martin DBR1 was on the maker's stand in the Earls Court display building.