As a teenager I sat in the Woodcote stand at Goodwood and watched Karl Foitek in a Giulietta TI come around at the end of the first lap in among the 3.8 Jaguars. I know I wasn’t dreaming as I have it on my cine film. On the next lap he was nerfed into a spin and showed up way down. Ever since then I have dreamt of seeing a TI win at Goodwood.
The Revival Meeting sets out to reproduce touring car (saloon) car racing from that era. The rules back then were the looser Group 3 based Appendix J and the “Goodwood HRDC” rules seek to reproduce what was historically applied. Boring out, carburetion and chassis freedoms and other things mean that cars like Austin A40s can run at the front, as they did do in period. Some latitude has been introduced so as to make some of the modification a bit easier and to help even up performances. New for last year were some minimum weight limits by car, related to actual road test weights rather than homologation, which caused a lot of last-minute investment in lead ballast.
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