Goodwood Revival to recreate Nine Hour Race

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The 60th anniversary of the first Goodwood Nine Hour race will be marked by a special evening race at this year's Goodwood Revival with sports cars of the time such as the Jaguar C-type, Aston Martin DB3S, Austin-Healey 100S and Ferrari 750 Monza.

The race will be over 90 minutes from 6.15 pm, so the latter half of the race will be run with headlights on in the twilight. A 1950s Jaguar or Aston Martin racing through the English countryside at dusk is about as evocative as cars can be. The atmosphere will be heightened by the fact that everyone at the Revival is in period dress from the 1950s and 1960s, and we mean everyone. The public, the emergency services, the officials and the competitors are all straight out of a period drama, with the effect complemented by its location in the timeless Sussex countryside.

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