“Racing ‘YVH 210’ was a very enjoyable period of my life, which came about because I did a good job of smashing up my D-type at Snetterton at the beginning of 1963,” recalls Peter Sutcliffe, the British driver who made his name racing Jaguars as a privateer in the late-1950s and 1960s. An archetypal British gentleman driver from the period, he is as cheeky and humorous as he is passionate – an incredibly likeable fellow.
Every September, the Duke of Richmond and his merry men transport tens of thousands of people back in time to the golden era of British motorsport for the Goodwood Revival.
If you can drag yourself away from the on-track action at the Goodwood Revival this Saturday, then pop ‘Over the Road’ to the Bonhams marquee, where the Bond Street Auction house will be staging its annual sale at the world-famous historic race meeting. A fantastic variety of automobilia and collector cars will be crossing the block and many of the latter are, uncoincidentally, eligible to take part at Goodwood. Take the 1961 Jaguar E-type ‘Semi-Lightweight’ (est.
So, here it is: the long-awaited new Land Rover Defender. And surprise surprise, it looks exactly like how the countless leaks and drip-fed spy shots led us to believe it would. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though.
It will take Bentley’s in-house team of Mulliner craftspeople around two years to build the proposed 12-car run of ‘new’ supercharged 4½ Litres, one for each of the 12 races Sir Tim Birkin’s four legendary Team Blowers contested in the late-1920s and early-1930s.
The F8 Spider is the open version of the F8 Tributo, Ferrari’s recent homage to its multiple-award-winning twin-turbocharged 3.9-litre V8.
