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Old 5 Oct 2022, 12:53 (Ref:4128752)   #13
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Have to say this is total unmitigated nonsense. Drivers wanted to win the JCB historic races in the 1970's and the Lloyds and Scottish ones in the 1980s just as much. Neil Corner and Willie Green drove as fast and competitively as the drivers in the TT today. ERA's in the 1960s had telescopic suspension systems and GTO's had super wide tyres and flared wheel arches. I was looking at photographs the other day of Colin Crabbe driving Aston Martin DP214 in the late 60's and it looked heavily modified. I think the idea that historic racing was once a pure experience with fields full of highly original cars just doesn't stack up.



It's quite possible to enjoy watching a former Formula 1 World Champion driving an E Type superbly, even if one knows that the car in question has been highly developed since it raced in period. There's probably a point at which things cross a line, and it's a shame that a lot of the more thoroughbred cars (GTO's mainly) no longer enter the TT Celebration but that's a product of financial values rather than the spirit of historic racing. Funny too that the Newey E Type is a genuine Lightweight, far more original in that sense than many of the recent winners of that race, and yet it has got a lot of people riled up.
So a response to the expert in Historic Racing!
It’s surprising that operations like Peter Auto who run the best historic series in Europe certainly police their competition cars scrupulously and cars like the Goodwood Jag would not be allowed to run.
Goodwood allows specially developed cars .
That’s the bottom line. Certainly a car like the Jaguar in question would not stand scrutiny for papers but if the operators at Goodwood want that type of event it’s their decision and nobody else’s .
Not sure it does much for Historic Racing overall but that’s not the name of the game in many peoples eyes.
About twenty GT40’s at Spa at weekend! Wonder where they came from
One was pretty quick for top speed! Seems to be more Racing Cobras Daytonas GT40’s Listers E types etc etc being built these days than in period
Imagine how difficult it is to police this situation should you want to!
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