"365Daytonafan" (365daytonafan01)
03/31/2014 at 07:15 • Filed to: Goodwood, events
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"365Daytonafan" (365daytonafan01)
03/31/2014 at 07:15 • Filed to: Goodwood, events | 0
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If there is one criticism of the Goodwood Revival, it is that it has become a victim of its own success. The event draws huge crowds and multiple corporate sponsors. This has stirred some complaints from members of the Goodwood Road Racing Club (GRRC) that they are getting a little marginalised, as the event gets bigger.
Goodwood has spectacularly addressed these concerns this year by staging the 72nd Members Meeting (72MM) at the weekend. Put on only for members of the GRRC, and their guests, the event on the surface looks like a smaller Revival but had many unique features all of its own.
The Revival sticks resolutely to the period when the circuit was first open from 1947 to 1966 (and when the first 71 Members Meetings were staged), but the 72MM had no such limitations and indeed the feature race was the Gerry Marshall Trophy held for the Group 1 saloons that raced between 1970 and 1982. Held over 2 legs with a 15 minute sprint race on Saturday and a 45 minute two driver race on the Sunday, it was an orgy of sideways Ford Capri and Rover SD1's going wheel to wheel with flame belching Chevrolet Camaros.
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