73MM - Sopwith Cup Full Race

73MM - Sopwith Cup Full Race
A field of '50s saloons takes to the track at the 73rd Members Meeting

[@gryfandjane]

Oh, what a treat. Meins was masterful in the A40, and watching him dice it up with the Jaguars was great fun. And the Metropolitan made a surprisingly strong showing! Never thought I’d see one racing.

[@PatrickCurrie1]

A Farina battling for first place and a Nash Metropolitan in the top 6! Who'd-a-thunk-it?! Amazing stuff

[@manfacilitymetalworks1296]

Stick your F1 and touring cars. This is real balls out racing. Love it. More please

[@geraldswain3259]

What a fabulously soughted little car the A40 is ,and a great pilot to boot !!!.

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Remarkable pace for the fact that they are all sitting in the passenger seat! Greetings from Switzerland, hehe

[@reouvenz]

I see what you did there :)

[@briankelvindiffey3006]

Real cars, awesome racing, real drivers with steel balls....Those were the days- :-)

[@the5thmusketeer215]

No... The most aggressive drivers actually had their steel balls removed... so as to save weight. ✌️😎

[@fiveowaf454]

Fantastic race, the most entertaining car race I've seen for some time. My Primary school teacher had a red A40 like the on that came second, so there was some nostalgia at play too.

[@brycenew]

So SO much fun in 2020 to see these old girls being given what for on a track. And a wee A40 leading the charge!! What value this recording is :D

[@byronpink9061]

Superb driving in these vintage automobiles. Love it!!

[@leslieaustin151]

Err, ‘Vintage’ - in UK at least - means 1921 - 1930. These are way too late for that. But some might qualify as PVT (post-vintage thoroughbred), but not many of them. Still, its all good fun and stuff from my younger days. Les

[@blxtothis]

This reminds me of my families weekly runs from London to Brighton to visit grandma, in my pop’s 1956 Morris Oxford!

[@bikesqump]

I've never seen so many drum brakes and leaf springs in 1 place in my life! so cool

[@flamingfrancis]

You need to visit the scrap dealers more often.

[@mattcollier5957]

im here every year, as an owner of 3 Metropolitans, you know who im cheering for.....

[@sidscrote2006]

Fantastic! Much better than an F1 "procession".

[@fiveowaf454]

Agreed, not hat it's hard to improve on F1 when it comes to excitement on the track.

[@Brommear]

Why does anyone still watch modern car racing when this is at hand?

[@regsparkes6507]

What nostalgia, terrific! Well done all.

[@clanrobertson7200]

I love seeing the Anglo’s Prefect 100e red and gold. My first car was a 1957 Anglin Prefect 100e which I bought for $100 and had to rebuild the flat head 4 cylinder. While waiting for parts from England,I sanded the baby blue body and painted it Corvette Candy Apple Metal flake Red, put oversized tires on the rear, jacked up the front springs and put white racing stripes down the drivers side. I put s few personal touches on the interior: surplus jet fighter seatbelts in front, a Buick tube type radio in the glove box with a single speaker wedged between the shifter and the firewall, I used a Stant radiator cap tester gage as a tachometer. I mounted it on the dash, ran a copper hose to the water pump. As the engine revved, the water pressure went up . It made a clicking sound as it flopped back and forth. I drove the car hard for three years and never had a problem with anything!

[@taketimeout2share]

Austin Metropolitan? Racing? And doing well? I must have eaten the wrong mushrooms. Waiter!!

[@markfortin421]

And in a bloody awful color no less!!! 😂

[@TheGel69]

Nash metropolitan on the other side of the pond, indeed very strange, having had a 1959 convertible model for a while it never occur to me that I could race it.....

[@blxtothis]

taketimeout2 - as a kid in the 50s we always knew it an Austin Nash Metropolitan, a joint venture with the American company. Austin had many models specifically aimed at the American market in the day.

[@deltavee2]

A Nash (Austin) Metropolitan running in the top six for so long! My grandmother had one of those back in the '60s. Never ever even contemplated that one could race in it. Too bad it DNF'd, but wow.

[@Collateralcoffee]

This is awesome!!!! What a great piece of driving!

[@HITHEREFOLKS]

almost like being there !!!!! so much fun !!!!!! oh...top marks for commentators too !!

[@markfortin421]

And, if I may say....fantastic video, with cameras placed perfectly to catch the action, although we need a tad more coverage for the boys in the back....they're in the race too!!

[@duncanwalker1347]

How wonderful to think there are still plenty of men wealthy enough and utterly mad enough to do this on a weekend for what is basically a hobby

[@lsmith6378]

I used to be an enthusiast when you could buy a road going XK for fifty quid. A friend of mine bought a Jag MK7 from Green Lane breakers put another engine in went to Silverstone and won his race and then drove the car home. Those were the days.

[@hydorah]

Crikey that was surprisingly riveting. That black Jag looks tremendous. I was really surprised to see an A40 with so much pace!

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

I learnt to drive in a ' 64 Austin A40, didn't go like No 46 - great exciting stuff !

[@stewartw.9151]

I raced a 998cc Mini and a Lotus Cortina, both much hotted-up, in the 1960s and early 1970s. But I would never have thought of many of these cars as suitable for any kind of racing! The lap record at Goodwood is 1:18.217 set by Nick Padmore in a Lola T70 Spyder in 2015. So these are going at a relatively leisurely pace of course but I expect they are pedalling hard though. As the saying goes when one considers a Jag Mk VII or a Ford Zephyr or a Nash Metropolitan and any possibility of great success, "you can't get there from here!"

[@TheHairyHound]

Saturdays with Grandstand or World of Sport showing this kind of programming made tv worth tuning in to And by tuning that's exactly what we had to do lol 😂 Bring back real racing like this!!!!!

[@AndrewArjoon]

Getting motivation to finish my Jag restoration :)

[@gizmothewytchdoktor1049]

so it! my xjs facelift gets driven every day :-) wonderful feeling and driving piece of kit :->

[@chrisvilavelha]

....................... Glorious !!! .... Thank you so much !!! :-)

[@nor0845]

Don’t know what they’re feeding these things....... Good stuff. Thanks for posting.

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

This is real motor racing,👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍👍🇬🇧

[@a1ar127]

Amazing that these sportsmen risk their vintage cars... I always thought they were just out for exhibitions but from these Goodwood videos they’re seriously risking a lot of valuable hardware for the fun of the race.

[@mr-wx3lv]

That was some race... I rooted for the A40... But the old Jag just had a bit more grunt..

[@UberLummox]

English announcer says (car gets) "a little bit *naughty* up the inside". Very quaint! :)

[@TERRYB0688]

Brilliant, all skill, surprised no cars overheated , boy in the A40 will need a change of underwear after this race 👍

[@kabukiwookie]

What?? Is that a Nash Metropolitan I see there?? People road race Nash Metropolitans??? I guess it makes sense.... The only thing that would blow my mind more is seeing a 1950's Chrysler New Yorker in that race...

[@ianjohnson4052]

kabukiwookie thats a little Austin Metropolitan, they were made here in Great Britain, Nash must have imported them and put their badge on them.

[@jonathanshelly5014]

Actually, Nash designed the Metropolitan, had Austin build it, and then sold it as a Nash. Pretty confusing, but the car was originally designed in the U.S., it just wasn't built there due to tooling costs. Nash decided that they could contract it out to Austin for less money.

[@disvillage]

kabukiwookie Lololololol too funny.

[@jesuseduardostahlleija8986]

Muy buena carrera..muy buena la última vuelta, me gustó el desempeño del Hudson Metropolitan, aunque abandonó, yo tenía uno..pero éste estaba más bajo de la suspensión..los Jaguar ya deberían estar en un Museo..y TODOS.. Salud2

[@Evilroco]

Es genial que estos autos clásicos sigan compitiendo , lo siento por mi pobre español

[@colindebourg3884]

I used to race against Les Ely at Braintree Auto Club many years ago.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

Who transforms these cars into such racing machines?

[@taooflovepassionandcomedy8722]

best race I have ever seen

[@markfortin421]

Goodwood beats NASCAR hands down. This is what racing is SUPPOSED to be!!!! ✌😄

[@michaelcostigan4864]

UK market Metropolitans were badged as Austins, but this one is left hand drive so, yes, it's a Nash

[@Hot80s]

Even if they were sold to the rest of the left-hand Europe?

[@cyberdansken]

Left hand drives Austin's here in Europe.

[@ernestogasulla7763]

I wanted to see a little more of the Falcon. Still a great video.

[@loripearce3942]

was at goodwood last year one check for bucketlist. Best racing in the world barnone

[@west_adv]

Great race!

[@luisvillarrealheredero1326]

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!

[@specialized29er86]

Would the cars have the original suspension, if so you'd need balls of steel.

Can't see how that is possible.

[@infledermaus]

Why are there so few Triumph TR-4s racing at Goodwood? TRs, MGs, Spitfires, 1960s small sports cars, etc.

[@acptelford1307]

There’s loads racing. This is a different class

[@Kandi-tg]

Wow what a great race, i though the jag would eat the A40

[@andymcneil7085]

Proper racing.

[@garrygreen4814]

Thse cars look like they are enjoying it

[@claudiosironi7591]

What a race .

[@jamesblonde2271]

Great race, the Nash was hilarious, sorry it DNFd

[@garymanis6305]

Looked like that Mk-VII had more than a few suspension modifications. I'm not sure what the rules allow. Good race, though.

[@flamingfrancis]

The bridal car (#29) did extremely well considering it had wedding bookings before the race.

[@tomohawk5567]

What modifications were made to these cars? Great video thanks for sharing

[@mitchb2305]

The tires look like they're the original equipment (at least their size is OE), but I'm betting they're allowed some sort of stickier compound. Clutch and other drivetrain parts are definitely allowed modification. Suspensions too, otherwise there'd be a lot more leaning and diving and sliding. Roll cages. Fuel cells? Maybe.

[@stevestegman2066]

I like watching races at GoodWood but what i dont understand is why do they race different model of cars in the same race. Seems like you would know who is going to have a better chance of winning.

[@steinwaygrande3971]

Great racing. Wonderful to see these classic cars doing battle on the track. One has to wonder what was lurking under the bonnet of the A40 that Gave the Jag a hard time

[@paulnic7190]

Honda

[@steinwaygrande3971]

Honda what ??

[@jaygee5693]

@@steinwaygrande3971 Commentator says Honda Civic.

[@pashakdescilly7517]

Goodwood has very tight rules about modifications. It has to have an Austin A-series engine

[@thomasb1889]

It is weird as an American hearing the names of the models. To me a Zephyr of that era is a Lincoln. The Metropolitan was from Nash and while a good small car the US was not ready for cars that small yet.

[@garrygreen4814]

This is better than F1

[@barrymedd6859]

Interested to know what modifications allowed.

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

What about the average budget needed to join such amateurish racing ? Let's say,to run a midfield car just to have fun amongst these enthusiasts ...?

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Metropolitan is running some serious negative camber on the front! There should be a grayscale version of this video!

These are REAL cars.

[@David-ki6jq]

It's no surprise all the best bank robbers drove a mk1 Jag 😂

[@englishmaninfrance661]

I had a Riley 1.5 , even stock , it wa pretty quick

[@alistairriggs5911]

nooooo the A40 piped at the post

[@borromeo50]

great race... though quite disappointed the Falcon couldn't do better than a 9th place :(

[@orangecrush5862]

No stands to sit in?

[@mrofnocnon]

An A40 came second! Hard to believe!

[@saltzen961]

Yawn . A bunch of weird looking , gutless little cars . how fun could this be ?? Half way through I'm standing in my chair !!!!! Now THAT'S racing . More Goodwood please !!!!!!!!!!

[@JohnSmith-zv8km]

wonderfully british

[@paulnicholls8683]

The only way this could be a bit better would be a bit of onboard video.

[@gizmothewytchdoktor1049]

good race!

[@austinwagoncompany]

Start at 2:55

[@DSRQ1]

I'm betting none of those euro cars make it to the last lap.

[@danb.3397]

IT'S NOT EASY RACING AND FLIPPING A CREPE AT THE SAME TIME !!

[@brucemoxon3771]

Who the hell races a Mk VII Jaguar? Must have muscles on his muscles to steer the bloody thing.

[@garthlundquist8316]

2manysecrets I raced mine in high school. The real problem is the ridiculous weak brakes. They were bad enough on the 120.

[@blkpig6664]

Proper!

[@giuseppe397]

I was hoping the mk7 jag would do well but I was disappointed. It appears to be a big slug.

[@chrislogue9989]

A big slug would not have got on to the front row of the starting grid.

[@giuseppe397]

@@chrislogue9989 Why was it so poor? Engine fault?

[@64fairlane305]

Nash Metropolitan, not Austin :P

[@paulnic7190]

Depends which country you are in. US or UK

[@psk1w1]

made by Austin for Nash to sell in the US. If sold in UK or its 'colonies', it was an Austin

[@douglasdixon524]

Great racing! 15:05... S L I D E W A Y S!

[@Hotrodngaz]

PISS OFF WITH THE ADDS!!!!!!!

[@bobeden5027]

My A40 never went that fast!

[@tomsvenkesen2476]

Bob Eden but it can be ,ewerything is posible.

[@stewartw.9151]

40 was about the number of horses it had whereas these racers apparently pump out about 130 hp!

[@carelbrugman6687]

Triumph tr4

[@vitakyo982]

English indeed

[@CastleAdam]

Commentator say's Mk One Jaguars. Are they not Mk Two's?

[@LuckyTrucker1]

No those were Mk1s . Narrower rear window and narrower radiator grill . when they came out of the factory the rear axles had a narrower track , not good if you are racing so axles from Mk2s fitted .

[@CastleAdam]

LuckyTrucker1 - Ah ok, thanks for clarification!

[@tomohawk5567]

@@LuckyTrucker1 were they aloud to make many modifications to these cars?

[@gizmothewytchdoktor1049]

i still think that the chicane on the straight needs to go!

[@noorzaidi220]

The Austin LOST BY seconds... bcoz * NO AERODINAMIC * THE REAR ABSORBER SHOULD INCREASED THE HIGH @ SPRING BY 6 inch will do ! it will increased you speed by 5 % , Believe it or not ! Who agree with me ? When your hight is on same level , during sharpe conering , with speed and forces, the gravity will depressed your rear spring , when it take place the front absorber will be higher from it normal hight,the load of the wind is soo great ! this will braking @ pulling the load at the back , and your speed to go faster will burden you from over taking your challence !

[@acptelford1307]

Lol

[@Patmofar]

Real racing not like Formula Farce, sorry Formula One.

[@muttnaughton9223]

Finally KZbin suggested something great.

[@joshuarosen6242]

That was a great race and it was fascinating to see the small light cars head to head with the big powerful ones.

[@spikespa5208]

4:20 So ya think horsepower is all ya need? Nope.

[@harpomarx7777]

Number 20 nods over to number 1 at the starting line and asks "Pardon me ... do you have any Grey Poupon?"

Brilliant race but let's face it a Jaguar should beat an Austin A40.

[@mrofnocnon]

yes but only just!

[@shoutykat]

So much negative camber on the MkVII! It looks broken until it gets into a coner and suddenly the outside wheel is perfectly upright.

[@fiveowaf454]

I noticed the same, thought he had something broken on the first couple of laps.

[@Sibbe2560]

Compared to this, F1 is just child’s play...😂👍

[@jayc3110]

That was wonderful to watch... Thanks!

[@williamcharles9480]

I love seeing that Austin(Nash)Metropolitan running in the front pack. Never seen a Metro race before or just about anything else here for that matter. A completely surreal experience. Who supplies the parts for these vintage cars? Those spoke wheels on the Jaguars must be a real challenge to keep in racing tune. Great stuff.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

Yes, I'd like to know too - especially tuning, uprated suspension and brake parts.

[@markjohnson8352]

Brilliant race!

[@ST-jq]

What made me laugh, was the little Nash trying to keep up with the big boys. My school teacher back in the early 60's had one, even then it made me smile just to see such a bizarre motor car.

[@bones8961]

The little red A40 surprised me indeed, very competitive - amazing !

[@dobermanpac1064]

Fabulously Brilliant! Very entertaining 😎 Who needs F1...LOLLL