Top Ten Shootout finale
Dan Collins brought the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed to a
suitably stirring conclusion with an epic performance in the Top
Ten Shootout finale. Times recorded in the previous batch were
eclipsed by Andrew Willis in the wailing Matra MS670B in the
opening run with a time of 53.18s but this was just the warm-up
act. Minutes later, Andrew Smith recorded a time of 50.03s in his
deceptively standard-looking Toyota Celica sprint car and neither
Gary Ward’s Penske PC 19 or Paul Knapfield’s Brabham BT42
went faster. The weekend-long battle between GT star Michael
Bartels’ Maserati MC12 and double British Rally Champion Jonny
Milner’s self-built Toyota Celica hillclimber failed to take into
consideration Collins’ determination aboard his Lotus 88B ‘twin
chassis’ F1 car. This radical machine practised but never
competed in a Grand Prix in period but Collins exploited the car
perfectly to cut the timing beam at 48.52s.
Bartels was next to run in the Italian supercar but he could
manage ‘only’ 49.09s. It was now all down to Milner whose wild-
looking Toyota was the final car to run. He had been comfortably
the fastest man all weekend but was convinced that he was
taking Molecomb Corner too timidly. This time he attacked from
the off, kicking up dust exiting the first corner, only to make a
mess of Molecomb Corner with a grassy moment. Even so, he
only narrowly failed to take the top spot with a still hugely
respectable time of 48.99s. His efforts were rewarded with
rapturous applause as the curtain descended on the 2011
Goodwood Festival of Speed. See you in September for the
Goodwood Revival!
Cartier Style et Luxe concours d’elegance
David Cottingham’s sublime 1951 Ferrari 340 America claimed
overall honours in the Cartier Style et Luxe concours d’elegance.
Among the other winners, William Ainscough claimed the Boat-
Tail Beauties category with his 1931 Bentley 41/2-Litre
Supercharged Roadster while Kees Smit’s 1937 Tatra T77 was a
worthy recipient of the Extreme Line prize for ‘Pre-War
Streamlined Specials’. The People Power class went to the 1961
Renault 3 from the factory collection with the Comeback Kids
gong going to Maarten de Buijn’s 1999 Spyker Silvestris V8
prototype.
Images Peter Singhof www.ClassicCarPhotography.de
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