A sell-out crowd of nearly 150,000 motorsport enthusiasts attended the 2013 Goodwood Revival, held 13-15 September at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England. While rain intermittently plagued this year’s event, spectators were still able to enjoy the very best from the classic motorsports world.
The jewel in the Revival’s racing crown –- the annual RAC Tourist Trophy Celebration race –- was made all the more unmissable in 2013 when the heaven’s opened at three-quarter distance, with Simon Hadfield seemingly coming out of nowhere to take the victory (with driving partner Wolfgang Friedrichs) in the Aston Martin Project 212, an appropriate first for Aston Martin in its centenary year.
Additionally, this year’s Freddie March Memorial Trophy ‘night race’ was set to be a special 90-minute competition into dusk, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the second Goodwood Nine Hour race, but heavy rain saw the race being shortened by 30 minutes. It was nevertheless a fabulous spectacle, evoking the sights and sounds of a bygone age, with first place going to John Young and Alex Buncombe in a Jaguar C-Type.
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Photographer Julien Mahiels offers the following rain-soaked images from the RAC Tourist Trophy and Freddie March Trophy races at the 2013 Goodwood Revival, all displayed in the full-width view of Sports Car Digest. To see more from Julien, visit julienmahiels.net.
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[Source: Julien Mahiels]
Outstanding rain pics!! They are superb IMHO.
Outstanding images. Thank you.
Hi Tim.
By any chance are you the Tim Walton who raced a Cooper T71/73 Twin-Cam in the mid to late 1980s ?
Please reply by email to –
peter.jackson02@btinternet.com
Many thanks.
Peter Jackson
Cooper Car Club Archivist & Registrar
Nice pics.like to see a St Marys Trophy…true¡
Very nice shots of the cars racing in the rain. I am sure it was no ‘picnic’ standing out there but you really captured it! Love the water spray coming off the back of the cars.