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Goodwood Festival of Speed |
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Up the hill in an Aston! |
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| The final part of my four week European tour in June was to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. I was very privileged to have the opportunity to drive a 1960 Aston Martin Zagato in the event (see above). |
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| Of course I was somewhat in the shadow of Lewis Hamilton (above) who was making his first appearance, in an F1 car, in front of his home crowd. |
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| And to a lesser degree with Jenson Button (above) who might have found this bicycle easier to control than his Honda F1 car. |
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| 1980s pop star Belinda Carlisle was on hand to sing at the black tie ball on the Saturday night... |
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| But my favourite hero was Vic Elford who in 1968 won the Monte Carlo rally, the Targo Florio and the Nuerburgring 1000 kilometres - and finished fourth in his debut F1 race (in a not very good car, in the rain). |
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| At Goodwood Vic was reunited with the Chapparal 2J sucker car (above). |
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| In another Aston was - literally- the world's fastest man: Andy Green - holder of the world land speed record at 1227km/h... |
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| Four-times Indy 500 winner Al Unser Sr. drove this Thompson-Buick special . |
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| Showing clear Elford tendencies, young Joe Twyman drove this Porsche 917 in the dark after dinner at Goodwood House - wearing full black-tie: "the car's owner insisted I dressed correctly," says Twyman. Apparently this was the first time the car had been driven at night since it won the Daytona 24-hours in 1971 (courtesy of Jackie Oliver and Pedro Rodriguez) |
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| And then there was the beautiful Zagato which attracted admiring glances despite its driver being very, very careful with it on the hill! |