Decidedly, the Festival of Speed of Goodwood (Great Britain) is doing damage to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary! The gathering organized in the domain of the Duke of Richmond, Charles Gordon-Lennox, has been marred by accidents since Friday.
Two days aftera wheel of a Jaguar hit the publicluckily without causing any serious injuries, three vintage racing cars crashed into the straw bales on the narrow 1.86 km climb.
First, the McLaren F1 GTR in Lark colors lost control and hit the protective wall at medium speed. This is chassis #13R which raced in the Japan GT Championship in the hands of Ralf Schumacher and Naoki Hattori in 1996, with three wins. It was recently exhibited at Le Mans Classic.
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Then at the wheel, the Spaniard Jesus Gijon explained his misadventure at the microphone of the local TV production. “ Honestly, I don’t know what happened. I was riding very slowly, but I lost control and once in the grass I had no chance of recovering. On Friday, I had done two climbs without any problem, at the same speed. This time, maybe I made a mistake, or I ran on oil. The damage is fortunately light, the repairs should not take too long to carry out. This car has a lot of value, but we’re going to fix it and we’ll keep it going! »
A few minutes later, a 1990 Leyton-House Judd CG901 went into the background at the same location. The single-seater, imagined by the genius designer Adrian Newey and adorned with an unforgettable sky blue dress, was piloted by Richard Hope, a gentleman-driver specializing in historic races such as the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique. The Englishman owns several classic cars, such as a 1980 F1 Shadow DN11.
Richard Hope escaped unscathed, unlike the Leyton-House, badly damaged in its rear part. The cause of this accident has not yet been determined, but the presence of a puddle of oil cannot be ruled out.
After an interruption of the session, a BMW M1 Procar ended up in the wall of straw bales, like the Hyundai Iconiq 6 on Friday. Its pilot Steven Osborne, also a gentleman-driver, was not injured. To top it off, a rare 1998 Porsche 911 GT1 broke its rear wing while kissing the side of the road.
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