Goodwood Revival: Racing, Fun & Lifestyle 🎥

At the Goodwood Revival, you don't know where to look. To the track, where the best historic racing is on offer? To the racing cars, which are nowhere more numerous from that time, when there were races on the legendary Goodwood Circuit (from 1948 to 1966) almost weekend after weekend? Or on the spectators who dress and coquet in the style of that era?

Unique specaktel
The Goodwood Revival, which has been held every year since 1998, even in the two pandemic years with cutbacks, revives this legendary time with real races and a rich supporting program for three days. Higher speeds are not achieved with historic vehicles on any race track.

Only those who own an original or an original replica and receive an invitation from the Duke of Richmond, the host of Goodwood, are allowed to participate. Therefore, there are only a few Swiss who deserve this honor - either as the owner of a beautiful vehicle (entrant), and / or as a driver with more or less sounding name.

Strong performance by Philipp Buhofer
So, even for busy professionals like Marcel Fässler (top gallery, left, with the author) and Neel Jani, accompanied by their wives, the Goodwood Revival 2022 was first and foremost a pleasure amidst prominent racers from nearly 30 different worldwide championships or racing series. However, a gentleman racer from Switzerland - an entrepreneur who races in his spare time in various business sectors - stole the show from them both.

In the Glover Trophy, the 25-minute race for Grand Prix cars from 1961 to 1965 (highlights in the video above), Philipp Buhofer already amazed with sixth place on the grid and turned this - also benefiting from two retirements - into third place. The top three (gallery right) are traditionally rewarded with a laurel wreath and a fine cigar.

After the retirement of second-placed Joe Colasacco in the unique Ferrari 1512 - a 1.5-liter twelve-cylinder - it was Buhofer who broke the phalanx of Lotus Climax and Cooper in his BRM P261 with starting number 3 (upper gallery center). The man from Zug had already made it onto the podium at the Grand Prix Monaco Historique in his Lotus 24 (ex Siffert) - congratulations!

It all depends on the car and the partner
Normally, Marcel Fässler and Neel Jani always drive for the podium. Although they had no chance in the two star-studded fields of 60cc touring cars and GT cars due to their car allocation, they also had fun.

Neel Jani: "Taking part and being there is more important here than the result. It's sometimes a matter of luck which car and car owner you have as a partner."

In the touring car race of the stars, Jani fought his way up from 16th on the grid to eighth in an unusually blue Ford-Lotus Cortina (middle gallery, top left). Vehicle owner Ambrogio Perfetti ran in fifth the other day, which added up to a good sixth place.

Victory for the battleship
Marcel Fässler in the red Alfa Romeo GTA (middle gallery above left), who started immediately behind Jani, however, retired early with clutch damage. In both races, the Ford Galaxie 500 driven by Romain Dumas (middle gallery, top right) and Fred Shepherd won, although the brakes of this battleship deteriorated badly towards the end of the race under pressure from the fastest Alfas and Cortinas.

The following video shows how Dumas successfully fought off Frank Stippler in Alex Furiani's Alfa Romeo GTA.

In the GT race, Fässler and partner Marco Attard were the best-placed duo (13th) with a Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray (middle gallery below limjks) behind a horde of AC Corbas and Jaguar e-types. With one of two Porsche 904 GTSs, Jani (middle gallery below right) was the underdog and therefore, like Oliver Bryant, quite satisfied with 14th place among 29 GT bolides.

Good performance from Simona
Janis Partner previously won the Whitsun Trophy with a Lola-Chevrolet T70 Spder. In the field of unlimited sports prototypes à la CanAm, the well-known British Historic Racer turned the fastest laps of the weekend with an average of almost 180 km/h.

Toni Seiler retired early with the same model borrowed from Belgian Marc Devis with a defective braking system.

Simona de Silvestro made her Goodwood debut on the first day of racing at Goodwood. She piloted a Cooper-Jaguar T33 driven by and driven by Katarina Kyvalova to a good ninth-place finish in the one-hour 1951 to 1955 sports car race, getting significantly faster from practice to the race.

Roland Wettstein was also proud of his fifth participation in a Goodwood event and very satisfied with his result at the Revival 2022. He placed 15th in the Goodwood Trophy for pre- and post-war racing cars. His Parnell-MG was the oldest (1933) and smallest (1408 cc) in the field of fast ERAs, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos. His car had competed at Goodwood in 1948, 1950 and 1951.

Eye catcher was the freshly restored BRM Type 15 Mk1 (cover picture video below) with its brute sounding 16-cylinder engine - a listening pleasure for petrol heads.

Much worth seeing on the Internet
In addition to the 15 different races, this year's parades were also worth seeing. They were dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Ferrari, the British former world champion Graham Hill (60 years since the first world championship title) and 100 years of Austin 7.

Leading the Ferrari parade on Saturday were ex-Scuderia driver Gerhard Berger in a 750 Monza and Sir Jackie Stewart in a 250 GTO - probably a unique sight (see gallery on the right).

Videos with further highlights or the whole race as well as the ambiance all around can be found on the official homepage at this Link. The complete results are available at this Link.

Photos: Goodwood Circuit and Peter Wyss

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