Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "American(NASCAR Fan) Reacts to Goodwood FOS! F1, V8 Supercars, NASCAR, Touring Cars, Classics" video.

  1. The Goodwood events are great. Goodwood also provide a huge amount of coverage where they explain more about the cars running and the times they set against each other. Always learning something new from the coverage. Earliest this year may be the 1903 Mercedes race car being pushed hard. So near 120 years old. Duke of Richmond's driveway. Wikipedia has some of the amazing story of the Duke or Lord March.
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  2. The car that lost the wheel at 4:17, AKU 991 is a 1935 Aston Martin Ulster. 1.5 litre sports car made before tractor manufacturer David Brown rescued the company after WW2. Where the DB models came from.
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  3. Lots right but Red car at 11:00 is a 1954 Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser Indy car. Did a good time for a two speed gearbox.
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  4. Wikipedia search confirms it was beaten in all but one race it entered. Best result was a team 1,2 in the 1976 Swedish GP So not quite unbeatable but very interesting.
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  5. Car at 9:17 is the British Ford Lotus Cortina mk 2 from 1966 to 1970. Double overhead cam Lotus head used so still fast today. In Australia the more basic earlier GT and GT 500 Cortinas with pushrod engines won the first three Bathurst 500 events in 1963 64 and 65. Australian built first race specials Beating V8 Studebaker and Dodge Phoenix cars with crap brakes and high fuel consumption needing many pit stops. Even the EH Holden six cylinder cars lost out to the Ford Cortinas. Took the bigger engined Morris mini Cooper S to beat them in 1966 once the race special GT500 big fuel tank race special Cortinas were banned and the minis had their problems sorted out. The Cooper S then took the first nine places in 1966. The small blue car was the later Clubman version of the Mini. Nothing to do with the recent BMW mini, just using a highly regarded name.
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  6. At 9:35 that is the American Bill Thomas Cheetah race car. Chevrolet 327 engine but a primitive mid sixties US design of suspension meant it made more noise than race actual race wins. Beaten by Cobras, Corvettes and most other racing sports cars of the time. Described as evil handling mostly.
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  7. At 13:00 , yes a Rover. Made lots of sedans for mainly right hand drive markets. The big success for left hand drive markets was the Range Rover and Land Rovers. Likely the first SUV that now infest our roads pressuring cars out of existence.
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  8. So good potentially that it got banned. Leas aero resistance from the low profile tyres too.
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  9. Red car at 11:00 is a 1954 Kurtis Kraft Offenhauser Indy car. Did a good time for a two speed gearbox.
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  10. Hillman Imps were built in Scotland. All Rootes group cars very British , the French connection came very late after the Chrysler take over in their dying days. Hillman Imps also assembled in Port Melbourne and raced at Bathurst. Even from 1962 they had a Coventry Climax designed OHC slant four aluminium engine mounted in the rear. won the BTCC several times. Search Shannon's club TV Imp for more info.
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  11.  @solarfunction1847  only won one race mid development then abandoned, then banned. Wikipedia of it taught me a few things I did not know previously.
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  12. Now 54 years unbeaten. Although for the last 25 or so years only V8 s allowed.
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  13. A 1910 Fiat four cylinder 28 litre race car. Others might have got up to 60 litres before WW 1.
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  14.  @steveskrobot9496  got it right. Search YouTube for Beast of Turin.
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  15. 28 litre four cylinder.
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  16. A few electric and hydrogen powered cars in this too.
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  17. At 4:00 is the Fiat S76, later also known as Fiat 300 HP Record and nicknamed "The Beast of Turin" for a land speed record attempt. Later ended up in Australia where it crashed and the remains got used for a sawmill. IIRC. Thankfully restored, lots of vids on it.
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  18. The Cortina MK2 were built between 1966 and 1970.
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  19. A competitor to Shelby by Bill Thomas. First introduced around 1964 using a Chevrolet 327 against the Shelby Ford engines. Not much racing success
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  20. But all unofficial but helped Bill Thomas build them to a limited extent. Even the Chevrolet Corvette was not Given Chevrolet official racing sponsorship due to the GM ban on racing in the era
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  21. With that paint scheme, sound and performance it is likely to be the rare Mk 2 Lotus Cortina. Not stock anymore whatever the base car was.
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