AC Cobra Le Mans Crash at Goodwood

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_o...ington.27s_axe

If organizers want full grids they will need to make allowances for replica/continuation cars to run. I have no problem with someone not wanting to risk an XX-million dollar car and racing a duplicate. Just don't wiz on us and tell us it's the gentle Spring rain.

Totally agree. While I understand there are many folks out there that can afford an $XX-million car and want to have it continue to be used for its intended purpose, the risk vs reward issue has got to kick in. I would have no problem either with such an owner putting an accurate representation on the grid and leaving the $$ car at home. But there are the purists....

[Historybuff]

Allowing replicas to race alongside originals are a slap in the face to someone who pays $60 or so to come to a vintage race. They expect to see real cars built in the original era. I remember I went to a historic race in Chicago where the Ferrari P4 racing was built on a Boxer or some such. I am happy if Goodwood is locking out Jag's new/old style lightweights. Shelby got hounded by the DMV in Calif. for resurrecting some old chassis numbers --completing cars that had been assigned chassis numbers in the Sixties--and now here's Jaguar doing it out in the open and (almost) getting away with it. If Jag had succeeded, I can see Mercedes building more 300SLRs, Ferrari building more P3/4's--whatever car there's a customer for