Goodwood Motor Circuit fell under the spell of rampant American V8 engines last weekend, with Ford Mustangs everywhere at the 81st Members’ Meeting – 10th of the modern GRRC era – celebrating the iconic pony car’s 60th birthday. Sunday’s tremendous Ken Miles Cup feature, for first-generation notchbacks motivated by 289 cubic inch (4.7-litre) power units, gave 2013 British Touring Car champion Andrew Jordan another consummate one-make Goodwood victory for his CV, and a first for car owner Michael Whitaker Jr, who started strongly.
But as the warm sun set over the Chichester Corral on Saturday evening, the scene had been set in the Gordon Spice Trophy Group 1 saloon slugfest, the entry for which was equally peppered by superstars teamed with talented amateur throttle jockeys, hungry to learn from motorsport royalty. Outnumbered two to five, the Blue Oval’s reps came out fighting. Saddling monstrous 520bhp Boss 302 Mustangs, Craig Davies/Ash Sutton and Timo Bernhard/Fred Shepherd duffed up arch-rival General Motors’ well-matched Chevrolet Camaro Z28 posse. Six seconds covered the top five at the chequered flag!
As the British Automobile Racing Club – which masterminded the first 71 MMs from 1949 to 1966 – dropped the Union Flag, Porsche ace Bernhard dumped the clutch on the polesitting Bill Shepherd Mustang entry and
