The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a unique event where you can see racing cars from different eras in action, so every year it brings together thousands of motorsport enthusiasts, not just from all over the UK – fans from all over the world flock to it.
But racing, as you know, is always risky, and accidents happen every year on the famous high-speed hillclimb course, sometimes affecting unique cars. Not without incident today.
For example, the historic Judd powered Leyton House car, one of Adrian Newey’s first creations for the 1990 Championship, was seriously damaged. When the director of Goodwood’s broadcast showed a rerun of this episode, it appeared that the rider was not at fault in the accident – it appears that it was due to some sort of technical problem.
But the back of the CG901 is indeed damaged, and probably the engine is also damaged. The driver was more fortunate, he is fine and was able to leave the cockpit under his own power.
This was not the only accident: after some time, the Porsche 911 GT1-98 sports prototype, in which Alan McNish, Laurent Aiello and Stéphane Ortelli won the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans, suffered. But this car was luckier, it only had a broken rear wing.
However, races on the fast climb to the hill continue, so new incidents cannot be ruled out.
Source: F1 News
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