Rick Dupuy’s 1963 Austin Healey Sebring Sprite (Jason Dodd).
matched groups for the morning sessions.
A quick word about my car – it is my daily drive taking me in and out of London and has just ticked over 170,000 miles. This was going to be the first time I was able to test its capabilities in a track environment. Everything unnecessary was emptied out, tyres and fluids checked and with a full tank of diesel the car was ready. So, it was with a few butterflies fluttering (and stability and traction control still engaged) that, at the signal from the start marshal, I put my foot down and accelerated onto the wide open track.
For the first session I gently eased up the pace on each successive lap as I began to feel more and more at home with both the track and the car. A highlight was the sight and sound of the race- prepared Jaguar roaring past on Lavant Straight, and soon I was catching and passing a few cars myself. All too quickly though the 20-minute session was over and we returned to the paddock to give tyres, brakes and ourselves a chance to cool down before the next session.
For session two I was joined by one of the excellent Goodwood Instructors and he was able to correct a few little mistakes and adjust a few lines and braking points so that by the end of the second session I was able to push on and was really enjoying myself.
The rest of the day was an absolute blast of great weather and great driving, with the
Iain Hughes’s 2016
BMW M4 (Jason Dodd).
The famous Goodwood clock tower (Jason Dodd).
afternoon having an open pit-lane format. That allowed me to share the track with some different cars (and watch the faster cars really shift by), and also meant I was able to put in several sessions and eventually reached a little over 140 track miles. With the sun setting towards the end of the day, not even a warning from the track marshals to ‘make sure you don’t hit anything, as we don’t want to be rebuilding tyre walls at this
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