By RoadworkUK
Well, it’s 14:00 Stateside, and this will be my final post for this afternoon. I hope that Hooniverse’s coverage of the Goodwood Festival Of Speed in little old England has been to your liking. Those of you who have enjoyed it will be pleased to know that there will be a veritable deluge of FOS posts during the week as I wade through the various photos and videos that I’ve collected over the weekend and try and string a few descriptive sentences together. Those of you who have hated every single minute of the whole affair will be mortified to hear the same thing.
As a parting gesture, I thought I’d share a properly transatlantic racer with you; built in England, raced in America, powered by Germany and making a right old racket right up in your grill. After the jump.
Listen to this, loud, right up to the end.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwy0hLbzop0[/youtube]
Yeah, that loud bang at the end really hurt.
You have been listening to the ’97 PC26 which took Paul Tracey to victory thrice, at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet, Rio De Janeiro, the Nazareth Speedway, Pennsylvania and Gateway International Raceway, Illinois. Not the most successful chassis to come out of Penske, but the last one to actually win a race, which is something.
So with that, I leave you. My phone battery died hour ago so my significant other has no idea if I’m dead or alive. I’m off home to see if I can get any of the gasoline I’ve inhaled out of my lungs, and see how long the ringing in my ears lasts. I know ear defenders would have been a medically prudent choice, but somehow an experience feels more real when it’s physically painful.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
(Images and video copyright Chris Haining and Hooniverse 2014)
(Disclosure: The good folk of the Goodwood Estate embraced Hooniverse to their very bosom, giving me somewhere to sit and use their electricity and plied me with food and drink in abundance. I offer my most sincere thanks for having us.)
Jeff Glucker