ART ATTACK

here’s a certain look to the race Minis you find in the paddocks at the Goodwood Revival. A signature uniform, if you like. A solid and period-correct paint colour, race roundels, team-appropriate side-stripes… it’s all very classic, very clean. So you can imagine the amount of double-takes this raucous little tearaway was generating as the Swiftune guys slipped the covers off at the 2021 event. Looking like it’s been coloured in with crayons and poster paint, and sporting a frankly colossal rear wing, it looks more like the kind of thing a child would scrawl in a sketch book than something you’d expect to see on a historic race grid. And that’s because, really, it is. Nick Swift and his merry band of enthusiast-experts have always taken a tongue-in-cheek approach, fusing engineering elegance with a wide-eyed sense of fun, and this car is the ultimate expression of that: with Goodwood having held