Star drivers to include previous Goodwood Revival winners Alex Buncombe and Andy Wallace
Leading classic car specialist JD Classics will return to the sell-out Goodwood Revival from 13-15 September, bolstered by three diverse entries.
The Goodwood Revival is a historic motor racing event that offers visitors the unique opportunity to relive a bygone ‘golden era’ of motor sport at the authentic and unchanged Goodwood Motor Circuit, and the 2013 event has an estimated £500+ million worth of vehicles attending.
The JD Classics 1959 Lister-Jaguar ‘Knobbly’ will be competing in the Goodwood Revival Sussex Trophy race, where the car is a regular entrant, with JD Classics’ founder Derek Hood at the wheel.
Another JD Classics entry is a 1952 Jaguar C-type, set to compete in the 90-minute Freddie March Memorial Trophy race, for cars in the spirit of the historic Goodwood Nine Hours races that ran from 1952 to 1955. This two-driver race will be run on into the dark, with head lamps ablaze, on the evening of Friday 13th. This ex-Fangio C-type will be driven by successful historic racing drivers Alex Buncombe and John Young. Buncombe took victory in the C-type last month at the 2013 AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, and this car also won the Freddie March Memorial Trophy at last year’s 2012 Goodwood Revival.
JD Classics’ third entry for this weekend’s Goodwood Revival will be a 1965 Ford GT40, which will form part of a unique and much-anticipated race – the Whitsun Trophy – dedicated to GT40s and related cars of a type that raced prior to 1966. This Saturday feature race at Goodwood will be very special indeed, being staged on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the genesis of the Ford GT40’s creation.
The Whitsun Trophy will feature a grid exclusively made up of the world’s finest collection of significant and authentic racing Ford GT40s. This will be the first time that a dedicated competition has ever been held for these iconic cars. It will be a 45-minute, two-driver race, with driver changes in the pits between 15 and 30 minutes. GT3 racing driver Alex Buncombe will share the JD Classics GT40 with 1998 Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andy Wallace.
Based on the success of the 2013 season so far, the combined driver and car entries from JD Classics promise to provide the Goodwood Revival grids with some strong competition.
Derek Hood, Managing Director, JD Classics commented: “The Goodwood Revival is always a highlight of the JD Classics historic racing calendar. The event has a unique atmosphere of days gone by and the three cars we have entered this year should yield some strong results.”
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