Over the weekend of 11th to 13th of July The Goodwood Festival of Speed was run by the Goodwood Road Racing Club to the now famous formula of bringing as many beautiful historic Formula 1, Indianapolis, Sports Racing, GT, Can-Am Sports, Touring Cars, and many historic early forms of automobile rarely seen outside of a museum to Goodwood House to run up the now famous hill. Lord March whose brainchild this was some 11 years ago and his team also try very hard to reacquaint as many original drivers with the cars in which they achieved the successes which made them famous, whilst mixing in current F1 cars driven by their drivers.

Although this event clashed with the FORCE Classic Grand Prix event at Dijon (run the same weekend) it is without doubt one of the greatest motor sport events in the world and for this the 11th year the GRRC arranged to bring back the highlights of the "first ten years".
Blazing hot sunshine bathed the record 158,000 crowd who attended the event over the 3 days who were treated to a motor sport spectacle which this year featured the Ford marque who provided the spectacular "front of house" display depicting the 1, 2, 3 scored by Ford at the 1966 Le Mans 24 hour race with GT 40 MkII's (the winning car driven by Chris Amon and Bruce McLaren on that occasion).

As in previous years a number of regular FORCE entrants were invited to run their cars at the famous event and this year was no different.
For 2003, (as for the past 2 years) Lorina McLaughlin was invited to run her ex. James Hunt McLaren M23 (06) DFV in the event, and Lorina entered her car to be timed whereas others purely entered to take part in "Demo" runs.

Amongst other FORCE regulars who ran at the event were Andrew Wareing who actually turned up with 3 cars, his ex. Niki Lauda Ferrari 312T from 1975/76 which he had on static display and no less than two Williams F1 cars. Andrew ran his customary Williams FW 06 DFV in which he has raced in FORCE events throughout the past season for it's original driver, the 1980 World Champion from Australia - Alan Jones. Andrew also used the Goodwood Festival to debut his "new" Williams FW 07C DFV from 1981 which has been a long term project for Andrew but he finally finished the car earlier in the week of the event. The car looked resplendent in it's white and green livery and runs a full width front wing (similar to that used on Ferrari F1 cars of the period). Andrew spent the weekend enjoying the FW 07C whilst Alan Jones drove the FW 06.

Between the FORCE McLaren paddock stand and that occupied by Andrew Wareings Williams and Ferrari cars yet another FORCE regular had set up camp for the weekend, the team in question being "US Elf Team Tyrrell" run by John Delane who turned up with two cars for the weekend. John chose the Goodwood event to debut not one but 2 cars "new" to him. Prepared by Hall and Hall, John debuted the very first F1 Tyrrell, the Derek Gardner designed 001 (still owned by the Tyrrell family but returned to it's original glory with John's help to enable him to race the car in FORCE events in Europe and historic events in the U.S. on behalf of the Tyrrell family).
Whilst we were aware of Tyrrell 001's rebuild going on in preparation for John to return the car to the circuits this season we were unaware of his recent acquisition of Tyrrell 006 DFV from 1973 (another Derek Gardner design) which he ran during the weekend for son Ryan Delane. John explained that he had acquired 006 from a collector in Canada and was going to have the car rebuilt by Hall and Hall before bringing the car out in FORCE events in 2004.

On Sunday morning Sir Jackie Stewart was reacquainted with 001 when he drove the car in a demonstration run up the hill. A wry smile and "Yes it is" came from Jackie when the comment was made "..just like Oulton Park in 1970 eh Jackie", (as the car was originally debuted by Jackie in the 1970 Oulton Park Gold Cup). 
When the Tyrrell 001 was debuted at Oulton Park, no one had seen it before and it was a complete surprise as Ken Tyrrell had Derek Gardner build the car in secret (the team were running March 701's for most of the season). Jackie Stewart finished 7th in heat 1 of the Gold Cup. The team then took 001 to Canada where Jackie qualified the car on Pole position for the Canadian GP at St. Jovite but retired due to a broken stub shaft. Jackie raced 001 at the US and Mexican GP's in 1970 qualifying 2nd fastest for both but finishing neither.
Jackie Stewart raced 001 to start the 1971 season in the South African GP in which he finished 2nd from pole and 3 non championship events (the Race of Champions - finished 2nd, Questor GP in Ontario - finished 2nd and the Oulton Park Spring Trophy - finished 3rd), before switching to 003 for the rest of the year in which he became World Champion for the second time.

Other FORCE regulars Rick and Rob Hall were busy driving a variety of cars (including a V16 BRM P30 from 1953 and a Vanwall from 1957 amongst others from the Donington Collection), in addition to running cars for others, including the Tyrrells for John & Ryan.

On Sunday evening when all the timesheets were checked, Lorina was awarded the fastest recorded time for Class 16, it was congratulations all round as Lorina collected her trophy and bottle of champagne from Stirling Moss and Lord and Lady March.
For the record, the fastest time set all weekend went to Graeme Wight Junior in his Gould GR51 Cosworth hillclimb car with a time of 42.95 seconds.

Ian Woodhouse on behalf of The FORCE.

Pictures Courtesy of PAJ Photography:

1. Lorina McLaughlin on her way to the Class 16 Award at Goodwood in her ex. James Hunt McLaren M23 DFV.
2. John Delane kicks up the dust as he demonstrates Tyrrell 001 DFV on the Goodwood hill.

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3. Sir Jackie Stewart is reacquainted with Tyrrell 001 DFV on Sunday morning at Goodwood in preparation for his demonstration run.