Goodwood Members’ Meeting 2014 – Grover-Williams Trophy Race

The Grover-Williams Trophy race at the 2014 Goodwood Members’ Meeting was held March 29-30 at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England. To celebrate the 90th anniversary of one of the most successful racing cars of all time, the Bugatti Type 35, a special one-make race was staged at the 72nd Members’ Meeting, featuring a variety of pre-war models.

Goodwood’s exclusive race for pre-war Bugatti race cars was staged in honor of William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams.Grover-Williams is remembered for his victories in the 1928-29 French Grands Prix, and for winning the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix in 1929 aboard his British Racing Green Type 35. During World War II he was recruited into the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was executed in Berlin in 1945, a matter of weeks before the end of hostilities.

Introduced at the 1924 French Grand Prix, the Type 35 is widely believed to have won in excess of 1000 races, and inspired a generation of successful Bugattis. The Grover-Williams Trophy race at the 2014 Goodwood Members’ Meeting featured several variations on the Type 35 theme plus models such as the Type 51, Type 54 and Type 59. The winner was the Bugatti Type 35B of Charles Knill-Jones, who finished nearly a staggering 46 seconds ahead of the Type 35 of Duncan Pittaway. Charles McCabe’s Type 59 and the Type 35B duo of Chris Hudson and Bo Williams rounded out the top five.

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Senior Photographer Tim Scott documented the 72nd Goodwood Members’ Meeting in 2014, including the following pictures from the Grover-Williams race for pre-war Bugatti race cars. We split up Tim’s pictures into two galleries. The first gallery starting below features our favorite images, all displayed in the full-width view of Sports Car Digest, while the second gallery and race results begin on the fifth page of the article and gives a comprehensive view of all the photographs. To see more from Tim, visit fluidimages.co.uk.

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72nd Goodwood Members’ Meeting 2014 – Grover-Williams Trophy Race Results

1. Charles Knill-Jones, 1927 Bugatti Type 35B
2. Duncan Pittaway, 1925 Bugatti Type 35
3. Charles McCabe, 1934 Bugatti Type 59
4. Chris Hudson, 1925 Bugatti Type 35B
5. Bo Williams, 1926 Bugatti Type 35B

[Source: Goodwood; photos: Tim Scott / Fluid Images]