Hill stars in golden autumn festival finale
Eighteen months after the 78th Goodwood Members’ Meeting’s due date, the sequence that began in 1949 continued memorably, with the British Automobile Racing Club at the helm as ever. The British Touring Car Championship organiser is familiar with the talent and tenacity of young Jake Hill – twice a race winner this season – but if Goodwood Road Racing Club members were not before last Sunday’s Gerry Marshall Trophy finale, they are now! The Ford Capri driver’s victory over the V8s brought the curtain down on a magnificent motorsport weekend.
Saturday’s heats whittled 60 competitors in the high-octane Group 1 showcase down to 30 finalists. Following a hideously wet morning’s official practice – as qualifying was known in the motor circuit’s 1948-66 contemporary era – the smaller capacity miscellany opened proceedings on an essentially dry track.
Fresh from his Revival Mini victory in a Historic-spec Cooper S, Nick Swift shot his 1275 GT from pole into a narrow lead before mechanical failure exiting the flat-out Fordwater kink sent it into the bank approaching St Mary’s, scene of much
