Factory Nissan Le Mans driver Max Chilton will take part in this weekend’s Goodwood 73rd Members’ Meeting and will get behind the wheel of one of the Japanese manufacturer’s most iconic sports racing cars on Saturday, 21 March.

Chilton, from Reigate in Surrey, raced in the Formula 1 World Championship with the Marussia team in 2013 and ’14, and rewrote a page in the sport’s long-standing record books by finishing each of his first 25 grands prix.

The Formula 3 and GP2 race winner has switched his attentions to the World Sportscar Championship this year, and will be one of Nissan’s factory drivers of the revolutionary GT-R LM NISMO at the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.

This weekend, however, he will drive a Nissan prototype of a very different kind, getting behind the wheel of Kent Abrahamsson’s R90CK – the very car driven to pole position by Mark Blundell for the 1990 Le Mans race – on the Saturday of this weekend’s event.

Chilton had intended to make his Goodwood race debut at the 2014 Revival, but was unable to do so after an engine failure on the Ford Mustang he had driven in practice prevented him from forming up on the grid for the Shelby Cup.

Having originally only intended to come as a spectator to Goodwood this weekend, he is delighted to have been invited to drive in the high-speed demonstration, which will be pace car-free this year.

The high-speed Group C demonstrations will take place on each of the two days of the 73rd Members’ Meeting, with Chillton’s Nissan joining an array of sensational 240mph rivals from Jaguar, Lancia, Mazda, Porsche, Aston Martin, Toyota and others.

Max Chilton said: “I was really excited about making my Goodwood race debut at the Revival last year in the Shelby Cup, so it was pretty unfortunate that I wasn’t able to race in the end due to an engine failure. I was just planning on going to spectate this weekend and catch up with a few old faces, but now I can't wait to drive the Nissan R90CK thanks to Kent Abrahamsson’s kind offer.”