Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012: Historic racers

One of the big appeals of the Goodwood Festival of Speed is that you get to see racing cars that often spend the rest of their lives sitting in a museum or tucked up in someone’s heated garage. But better still, everyone of them gets blasted up the hill as fast as possible and against the clock – there’s no better way to experience these gems than in the white-heat of competition.

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1962 Thompson-Buick Special

Getting ahead in racing can be about big changes as well as small details and this Thompson-Buick is a textbook example. In the 1962 Indy 500 Mickey Thompson used a stock motor and fitted in the rear, unlike almost all the competition. His finishing place of 20th doesn’t accurately reflect its speed as the V8 was detuned for reliability and was down on power compared to the competition. It won the Mechanical
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1962 Thompson-Buick Special

Getting ahead in racing can be about big changes as well as small details and this Thompson-Buick is a textbook example. In the 1962 Indy 500 Mickey Thompson used a stock motor and fitted in the rear, unlike almost all the competition. His finishing place of 20th doesn’t accurately reflect its speed as the V8 was detuned for reliability and was down on power compared to the competition. It won the Mechanical Achievement Award and set the template for future racers. less

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