73MM - Sopwith Cup Full Race A field of '50s saloons takes to the track at the 73rd Members Meeting
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@gryfandjane4 жыл бұрын
Oh, what a treat. Meins was masterful in the A40, and watching him dice it up with the Jaguars was great fun. And the Metropolitan made a surprisingly strong showing! Never thought I’d see one racing.
@muttnaughton92234 жыл бұрын
Finally KZfaq suggested something great.
@mattcollier59572 жыл бұрын
im here every year, as an owner of 3 Metropolitans, you know who im cheering for.....
@duncanwalker13474 жыл бұрын
How wonderful to think there are still plenty of men wealthy enough and utterly mad enough to do this on a weekend for what is basically a hobby
@lsmith63784 жыл бұрын
I used to be an enthusiast when you could buy a road going XK for fifty quid. A friend of mine bought a Jag MK7 from Green Lane breakers put another engine in went to Silverstone and won his race and then drove the car home. Those were the days.
@MrSaemichlaus4 жыл бұрын
Remarkable pace for the fact that they are all sitting in the passenger seat! Greetings from Switzerland, hehe
@reouvenz3 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there :)
@geraldswain32597 жыл бұрын
What a fabulously soughted little car the A40 is ,and a great pilot to boot !!!.
@manfacilitymetalworks12963 жыл бұрын
Stick your F1 and touring cars. This is real balls out racing. Love it. More please
@briankelvindiffey30064 жыл бұрын
Real cars, awesome racing, real drivers with steel balls....Those were the days- :-)
@the5thmusketeer2154 жыл бұрын
No... The most aggressive drivers actually had their steel balls removed... so as to save weight. ✌️😎
@PatrickCurrie16 жыл бұрын
A Farina battling for first place and a Nash Metropolitan in the top 6! Who'd-a-thunk-it?! Amazing stuff
@fiveowaf4544 жыл бұрын
Fantastic race, the most entertaining car race I've seen for some time. My Primary school teacher had a red A40 like the on that came second, so there was some nostalgia at play too.
@sidscrote20065 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Much better than an F1 "procession".
@fiveowaf4544 жыл бұрын
Agreed, not hat it's hard to improve on F1 when it comes to excitement on the track.
@byronpink90614 жыл бұрын
Superb driving in these vintage automobiles. Love it!!
@leslieaustin1513 жыл бұрын
Err, ‘Vintage’ - in UK at least - means 1921 - 1930. These are way too late for that. But some might qualify as PVT (post-vintage thoroughbred), but not many of them. Still, its all good fun and stuff from my younger days. Les
@joshuarosen62424 жыл бұрын
That was a great race and it was fascinating to see the small light cars head to head with the big powerful ones.
@spikespa52082 жыл бұрын
4:20 So ya think horsepower is all ya need? Nope.
@brycenew4 жыл бұрын
So SO much fun in 2020 to see these old girls being given what for on a track. And a wee A40 leading the charge!! What value this recording is :D
@bikesqump4 жыл бұрын
I've never seen so many drum brakes and leaf springs in 1 place in my life! so cool
@flamingfrancis Жыл бұрын
You need to visit the scrap dealers more often.
@Brommear2 жыл бұрын
Why does anyone still watch modern car racing when this is at hand?
@blxtothis4 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of my families weekly runs from London to Brighton to visit grandma, in my pop’s 1956 Morris Oxford!
@taketimeout2share5 жыл бұрын
Austin Metropolitan? Racing? And doing well? I must have eaten the wrong mushrooms. Waiter!!
@markfortin4214 жыл бұрын
And in a bloody awful color no less!!! 😂
@TheGel694 жыл бұрын
Nash metropolitan on the other side of the pond, indeed very strange, having had a 1959 convertible model for a while it never occur to me that I could race it.....
@blxtothis4 жыл бұрын
taketimeout2 - as a kid in the 50s we always knew it an Austin Nash Metropolitan, a joint venture with the American company. Austin had many models specifically aimed at the American market in the day.
@clanrobertson72006 жыл бұрын
I love seeing the Anglo’s Prefect 100e red and gold. My first car was a 1957 Anglin Prefect 100e which I bought for $100 and had to rebuild the flat head 4 cylinder. While waiting for parts from England,I sanded the baby blue body and painted it Corvette Candy Apple Metal flake Red, put oversized tires on the rear, jacked up the front springs and put white racing stripes down the drivers side. I put s few personal touches on the interior: surplus jet fighter seatbelts in front, a Buick tube type radio in the glove box with a single speaker wedged between the shifter and the firewall, I used a Stant radiator cap tester gage as a tachometer. I mounted it on the dash, ran a copper hose to the water pump. As the engine revved, the water pressure went up . It made a clicking sound as it flopped back and forth. I drove the car hard for three years and never had a problem with anything!
@HITHEREFOLKS8 жыл бұрын
almost like being there !!!!! so much fun !!!!!! oh...top marks for commentators too !!
@deltavee24 жыл бұрын
A Nash (Austin) Metropolitan running in the top six for so long! My grandmother had one of those back in the '60s. Never ever even contemplated that one could race in it. Too bad it DNF'd, but wow.
@regsparkes65074 жыл бұрын
What nostalgia, terrific! Well done all.
@jayc31104 жыл бұрын
That was wonderful to watch... Thanks!
@Collateralcoffee4 жыл бұрын
This is awesome!!!! What a great piece of driving!
@bones89612 жыл бұрын
The little red A40 surprised me indeed, very competitive - amazing !
@markfortin4214 жыл бұрын
And, if I may say....fantastic video, with cameras placed perfectly to catch the action, although we need a tad more coverage for the boys in the back....they're in the race too!!
@harpomarx77772 жыл бұрын
Number 20 nods over to number 1 at the starting line and asks "Pardon me ... do you have any Grey Poupon?"
@hydorah4 жыл бұрын
Crikey that was surprisingly riveting. That black Jag looks tremendous. I was really surprised to see an A40 with so much pace!
@williamcharles94804 жыл бұрын
I love seeing that Austin(Nash)Metropolitan running in the front pack. Never seen a Metro race before or just about anything else here for that matter. A completely surreal experience. Who supplies the parts for these vintage cars? Those spoke wheels on the Jaguars must be a real challenge to keep in racing tune. Great stuff.
@robertp.wainman40942 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'd like to know too - especially tuning, uprated suspension and brake parts.
@Roger.Coleman19497 жыл бұрын
I learnt to drive in a ' 64 Austin A40, didn't go like No 46 - great exciting stuff !
@TheHairyHound4 жыл бұрын
Saturdays with Grandstand or World of Sport showing this kind of programming made tv worth tuning in to And by tuning that's exactly what we had to do lol 😂 Bring back real racing like this!!!!!
@stewartw.91514 жыл бұрын
I raced a 998cc Mini and a Lotus Cortina, both much hotted-up, in the 1960s and early 1970s. But I would never have thought of many of these cars as suitable for any kind of racing! The lap record at Goodwood is 1:18.217 set by Nick Padmore in a Lola T70 Spyder in 2015. So these are going at a relatively leisurely pace of course but I expect they are pedalling hard though. As the saying goes when one considers a Jag Mk VII or a Ford Zephyr or a Nash Metropolitan and any possibility of great success, "you can't get there from here!"
@ST-jq2 жыл бұрын
What made me laugh, was the little Nash trying to keep up with the big boys. My school teacher back in the early 60's had one, even then it made me smile just to see such a bizarre motor car.
@skelejp99827 ай бұрын
Very impressed by that Jaguar MKVII, that car is huge!
@markfortin4214 жыл бұрын
Goodwood beats NASCAR hands down. This is what racing is SUPPOSED to be!!!! ✌😄
@davidskeeterskeeter18354 жыл бұрын
This is real motor racing,👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍👍🇬🇧
@a1ar1273 жыл бұрын
Amazing that these sportsmen risk their vintage cars... I always thought they were just out for exhibitions but from these Goodwood videos they’re seriously risking a lot of valuable hardware for the fun of the race.
@chrisvilavelha4 жыл бұрын
....................... Glorious !!! .... Thank you so much !!! :-)
@TERRYB06884 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, all skill, surprised no cars overheated , boy in the A40 will need a change of underwear after this race 👍
@nor08454 жыл бұрын
Don’t know what they’re feeding these things....... Good stuff. Thanks for posting.
@gordonwallin23682 жыл бұрын
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
@UberLummox5 жыл бұрын
English announcer says (car gets) "a little bit *naughty* up the inside". Very quaint! :)
@joebutlersnr70174 жыл бұрын
Fantastic racing.
@colindebourg38844 жыл бұрын
I used to race against Les Ely at Braintree Auto Club many years ago.
@AndrewArjoon7 жыл бұрын
Getting motivation to finish my Jag restoration :)
@gizmothewytchdoktor10496 жыл бұрын
so it! my xjs facelift gets driven every day :-) wonderful feeling and driving piece of kit :->
@markjohnson83524 жыл бұрын
Brilliant race!
@michaelcatto83232 жыл бұрын
MK1 3.4. and 2. 4 Probably my favourite cars of all time. In my life I have owned many cars Rover Mercs XJs I currently run E46, E38, Z3 2.2 and 2.8s, still would love a MK1. E46 in same league.
@jesuseduardostahlleija89865 жыл бұрын
Muy buena carrera..muy buena la última vuelta, me gustó el desempeño del Hudson Metropolitan, aunque abandonó, yo tenía uno..pero éste estaba más bajo de la suspensión..los Jaguar ya deberían estar en un Museo..y TODOS.. Salud2
@Evilroco4 жыл бұрын
Es genial que estos autos clásicos sigan compitiendo , lo siento por mi pobre español
@kabukiwookie6 жыл бұрын
What?? Is that a Nash Metropolitan I see there?? People road race Nash Metropolitans??? I guess it makes sense.... The only thing that would blow my mind more is seeing a 1950's Chrysler New Yorker in that race...
@ianjohnson40525 жыл бұрын
kabukiwookie thats a little Austin Metropolitan, they were made here in Great Britain, Nash must have imported them and put their badge on them.
@jonathanshelly50145 жыл бұрын
Actually, Nash designed the Metropolitan, had Austin build it, and then sold it as a Nash. Pretty confusing, but the car was originally designed in the U.S., it just wasn't built there due to tooling costs. Nash decided that they could contract it out to Austin for less money.
@disvillage5 жыл бұрын
kabukiwookie Lololololol too funny.
@mr-wx3lv4 жыл бұрын
That was some race... I rooted for the A40... But the old Jag just had a bit more grunt..
@realnutteruk14 жыл бұрын
I miss my A40... APA931A (not its original number) bought Bracknell about 1988... kept running by much welding, and replacement of the original 948cc engine with a 1098 Morris Minor lump.... would climb multi-storey car parks in top gear.... Sadly met its maker at A1 breakers in Wokingham about 1993.... Rust in Peace little car....
@INDIGOBLUE5554 жыл бұрын
Well,despite its size that huge Mk VII does unexpectedly keep up brilliantly with the more sporty Mk II....A good set up and what a good driver.
@robertp.wainman40942 жыл бұрын
Who transforms these cars into such racing machines?
@jackkhiangte27754 жыл бұрын
Winner Andy Wallace is the World Record-setting Bugatti Chiron driver. He drove 304.77mph(490.48km/h) in 2019, at the time he was 58 years old.
@ernestogasulla77634 жыл бұрын
I wanted to see a little more of the Falcon. Still a great video.
@stevedriver1476 Жыл бұрын
The Nash had an english motor that was in many british cars. sold through rambler, mayflower, AMC,
@jacktheripoff1888 Жыл бұрын
When the chauffeur tells his employer he's going to take the Mark-VII for the day out to get it serviced.
@taooflovepassionandcomedy87224 жыл бұрын
best race I have ever seen
@michaelcostigan48649 жыл бұрын
UK market Metropolitans were badged as Austins, but this one is left hand drive so, yes, it's a Nash
@Hot80s5 жыл бұрын
Even if they were sold to the rest of the left-hand Europe?
@cyberdansken5 жыл бұрын
Left hand drives Austin's here in Europe.
@luisvillarrealheredero13264 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!
@David-ki6jq7 ай бұрын
It's no surprise all the best bank robbers drove a mk1 Jag 😂
@flamingfrancis Жыл бұрын
The bridal car (#29) did extremely well considering it had wedding bookings before the race.
@dobermanpac10644 жыл бұрын
Fabulously Brilliant! Very entertaining 😎 Who needs F1...LOLLL
@specialized29er865 жыл бұрын
Would the cars have the original suspension, if so you'd need balls of steel.
4 жыл бұрын
Can't see how that is possible.
@Kandi-tg9 жыл бұрын
Wow what a great race, i though the jag would eat the A40
@MrSaemichlaus4 жыл бұрын
Metropolitan is running some serious negative camber on the front! There should be a grayscale version of this video!
@andymcneil7085 Жыл бұрын
Proper racing.
@infledermaus Жыл бұрын
Why are there so few Triumph TR-4s racing at Goodwood? TRs, MGs, Spitfires, 1960s small sports cars, etc.
@acptelford13074 ай бұрын
There’s loads racing. This is a different class
@rosewood1 Жыл бұрын
Love to see a 1940s race. Austin Atlantic Ford Prefect Jaguar xk120 Ford Pilot. Now you might think well the Jaguar would win. But the Atlantic had the 2.7 litre engine that could be set up to Le mans 100M spec. And if you removed the fancy hydraulics it would definitely be competitive! Be fun to see.
@jamesblonde2271 Жыл бұрын
Great race, the Nash was hilarious, sorry it DNFd
@garrygreen4814 Жыл бұрын
Thse cars look like they are enjoying it
@loripearce39425 жыл бұрын
was at goodwood last year one check for bucketlist. Best racing in the world barnone
@saltzen9614 жыл бұрын
Yawn . A bunch of weird looking , gutless little cars . how fun could this be ?? Half way through I'm standing in my chair !!!!! Now THAT'S racing . More Goodwood please !!!!!!!!!!
@claudiosironi75914 жыл бұрын
What a race .
@stevestegman20663 ай бұрын
I like watching races at GoodWood but what i dont understand is why do they race different model of cars in the same race. Seems like you would know who is going to have a better chance of winning.
@garymanis63054 жыл бұрын
Looked like that Mk-VII had more than a few suspension modifications. I'm not sure what the rules allow. Good race, though.
@thomasb18893 жыл бұрын
It is weird as an American hearing the names of the models. To me a Zephyr of that era is a Lincoln. The Metropolitan was from Nash and while a good small car the US was not ready for cars that small yet.
@shoutykat6 жыл бұрын
So much negative camber on the MkVII! It looks broken until it gets into a coner and suddenly the outside wheel is perfectly upright.
@fiveowaf4544 жыл бұрын
I noticed the same, thought he had something broken on the first couple of laps.
4 жыл бұрын
These are REAL cars.
@petesspark4 жыл бұрын
nice bit of baulking by number 1 on last corner
@steinwaygrande39718 жыл бұрын
Great racing. Wonderful to see these classic cars doing battle on the track. One has to wonder what was lurking under the bonnet of the A40 that Gave the Jag a hard time
Goodwood has very tight rules about modifications. It has to have an Austin A-series engine
@garrygreen4814 Жыл бұрын
This is better than F1
@tomohawk55676 жыл бұрын
What modifications were made to these cars? Great video thanks for sharing
@mitchb23054 жыл бұрын
The tires look like they're the original equipment (at least their size is OE), but I'm betting they're allowed some sort of stickier compound. Clutch and other drivetrain parts are definitely allowed modification. Suspensions too, otherwise there'd be a lot more leaning and diving and sliding. Roll cages. Fuel cells? Maybe.
@volkswagenk70173 жыл бұрын
i never realized how big the Zephyr was compared to a Jaguar MkI
@west_adv4 жыл бұрын
Great race!
@borromeo506 жыл бұрын
great race... though quite disappointed the Falcon couldn't do better than a 9th place :(
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant race but let's face it a Jaguar should beat an Austin A40.
@mrofnocnon4 жыл бұрын
yes but only just!
@andyhigs61504 жыл бұрын
I owned an A40 ,many moons ago. It didn’t go like this one.
@AndyWontTakeItAnymore9 жыл бұрын
Peter Clements in the Standard 10..Also known as Isle of Wight Pete :)
@DSRQ115 күн бұрын
I'm betting none of those euro cars make it to the last lap.
@alistairriggs5911Ай бұрын
nooooo the A40 piped at the post
@reddmann22164 жыл бұрын
What took the VW Beetle out?
@paultaylor7014 жыл бұрын
Why didn’t bank robbers use an A40 instead of Jags in all those films in the 50s and 60s?
@markadrianalancaster5674 жыл бұрын
4 doors..unless it's a Transit!
@mrofnocnon4 жыл бұрын
An A40 came second! Hard to believe!
@saintly2k Жыл бұрын
The poor 46… deserved to win haha
@englishmaninfrance6612 жыл бұрын
I had a Riley 1.5 , even stock , it wa pretty quick
@barrymedd68594 жыл бұрын
Interested to know what modifications allowed.
@INDIGOBLUE5554 жыл бұрын
What about the average budget needed to join such amateurish racing ? Let's say,to run a midfield car just to have fun amongst these enthusiasts ...?