The RAC Tourist Trophy Celebration for closed GTs and prototypes built between 1960 and 1964 has been the blue-riband race at Goodwood since the first Revival in 1998. Goodwood describes it as “perhaps the most important race in historic motorsport”, and the various pre-1966 GT contests around the world are among the highlights every season. But there’s a similar group of machines that is once again threatening to steal the limelight.
Pre-1963 GTs first appeared at what was then known as the Silverstone Classic in 2009, made their Goodwood debut at the 2014 Members’ Meeting, and became part of the Revival with the Kinrara Trophy in 2016. The pace of the top pre-1966 GTs, which now lap Goodwood six to seven seconds faster than they did in the late 1990s, pushed out some of the older machinery and a gap opened up for cars that weren’t quite so ‘hot’.
