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Fantastic Petrolicious Video

Originally I was going to post this video with a comment about the Rush to Gold Bridge, our mixed gravel and tarmac event. It seemed fitting, since this Porsche 356 is driven in places your pickup truck probably doesn’t go. But as I watched the video, and listened to Matt talk about his car, his passion for ownership, and his passion for driving, I was instantly brought back to each of our events this year. I could have been standing in the parking lot at any one of our hotels, hanging out with some of the best car-nut people, following a day of twisty road adventures. We had a fantastic year of exploring new roads, new regions and making some of the best new friends. Videos like this remind me how lucky we are.

So with that, I suggest you grab a coffee and enjoy the newest Petrolicious video. You’ll love it for the car, you’ll love it for the visuals, you’ll be surprised at where he takes the darned thing. Perhaps, like me, you’ll be transported back to B.C., Colorado, Oregon or Ontario and the great group of friends you met while on one of our adventures…

#Drive4Adventure
#drivetastefully

-Dave

Link to Petrolicious and the “Against the Grain” video

Goodwood Revival 2010 Videos

Photo: John Colley/Goodwood Revival

Ask anyone who has been to the Goodwood Revival, and you’ll likely hear glowing reviews and wonderful stories. It is certainly #1 on our “must see” list. The annual highlights show on UK television does a great job of showing the hard-fought race action mixed with the vintage atmosphere. I think its safe to say that the on-track racing is some of the most intense historic racing you’re bound to see anywhere. Insanely rare and expensive automobiles going wheel to wheel on one of the fastest circuits is a sight to behold.

Photo: John Colley/Goodwood Revival

We’ve found portions of ITV’s 45-minute show online, along with some other videos that capture the sights and sounds of this event. The full ITV show is available for download via several ‘torrent’ websites if you are so inclined.

Here’s the Tourist Trophy portion of the ITV show, featuring GT cars from the early sixties. Luckily this year’s event had a clean start, but Bobby Rahal’s off-track excursion in F1-designer Adrian Newey’s lightweight e-type will make you cringe! Incredible racing.

Starting life as a perimeter road around the WWII airfield, the track is hellishly fast and must be quite a thrill in a historic car. Not to mention, you need to have an immaculately prepared motor and car to withstand these revs and forces! To get an idea of the speeds, ride along with Tony Dron as he battles with Anthony Reid in the St. Mary’s Trophy! Dron is in a Ford Zodiac and Reid in a Jag Mk1, drafting and sliding their way around the track. Sadly, it ends with Dron breaking a front hub and retiring. (Skip to 1:30min for the start.)

Again, try and find a copy or download of the ITV show, because the St. Mary’s race was immensely entertaining. Watching ex-F1 driver Martin Brundle in a little A35 duke it out with multi-time Le Mans winner, Tom Kristensen, in the bigger Austin Westminster is not to be missed!

Photo: Matt Sills/Goodwood Revival

Here’s an amateur video of the Whitsun Trophy race that really gives you a sense of the raw sound of the ground-pounding sportscars that the television coverage doesn’t capture.

Thanks to Motorsport Retro for pointing to the ITV TT segment.
Goodwood Photographs are from the Revival website.

Cobras and E-types and Mustangs, Oh My!

Racing was an entirely different world back in the 60’s. This 8mm film, complete with its clacketing projector reel soundtrack, really has a neat feel to it. Just a bunch of people hanging out by the bay in NorCal, watching a stream of SCCA Production A/B/C warriors battle and bump it out on the streets of Candlestick Park in 1965. The 1.9 mile temporary road course was used from 1963 until 1965, using the parking lots and roads surrounding the relatively new San Francisco Giants stadium. Frantic flagmen, haybales for safety (kinda), and lots of excitement! Keep your eye out for the #7 Cobra driven by legendary Phil Hill, and the chequered flag taken by Don Wester in his yellow Porsche 904(?). [Video link via The Chicane]

”]The track layout as it was in the 1960’s.

Vancouver ABFM Video

With over 630 classic cars on display, the 2010 edition of the Vancouver All British Field Meet was one of the best yet. Held in the beautiful VanDusen Botanical Gardens, this year’s show featured the Jaguar E-Type and British-built Fords. The first in the Classic Car Adventures video series, we check out a few of the highlights, including an AC Ace, 1934 Aston Martin Ulster, and a Jaguar E-Type.

Roman Polanski’s “Weekend of a Champion”

In 1971, film producer Roman Polanski (yes, that Roman Polanski) spent a week with Team Tyrrell and Jackie Stewart at the Monaco GP, and produced a movie titled, “Weekend of a Champion”. Apart from a theatre release and some TV showings, the movie seems to have disappeared into obscurity. The title rarely shows up in any filmography listings for Polanski, and the all-knowing Google has very little about this movie. Thankfully, YouTube has a few segments from the movie but I’m still on the hunt for a full version. Here’s Jackie Stewart – at breakfast in his underwear – explaining to Polanski how to drive at Monaco.

Hopkirk & Aaltonen revisit the Col

Here’s a great bit of video from MINI, where they stick rally legends Paddy Hopkirk and Rauno Aaltonen in the new MINI convertible and send them off over the Col de Turini to reminisce about driving and rallying the old Minis. Rauno doesn’t hang about either, hitting 140kph up the switchbacks, and using plenty of handbrake in the corners!