This week was 0ctane magazines trackday at Goodwood . I thought it would great excuse to drive down there from my place (65miles) in my carbi GTV3.0 now that I'm bit more mobile . Unfortunately still due to my back injury I would not be able to go on track but just help out strapping passengers into cars for Alex .
I was extremely surprised at the amount of Alfas that arrived considering the wealth in that part of the country . But it turns out after chatting to a few guys that its far more enjoyable taking a modified Alfa out instead of their Bizzarini's or even their Ferraris . ( probably much cheaper to crash
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) One old chap came to watch and parked his old S3 Spider amongst the cars he remarked this the had a 250 Lusso as well .
Amongst Aston v12's , Mk2 Jags, 2x GT40 , Dino Ferraris , Porsche cup cars , lotus's their were about eight Alfas in a approximate total of thirty cars .
Most of these eight Alfas came from clients of the two Alfa restores ie Alex Jupe and Ian Ellis who have their workshops in that part of the country .
I found pretty entertaining watching Ian in his beautiful light weight GTA replica race car trying to hang to the tail of Alex in his GTV 3.5 with road tyres . Two totally different cars but both supplying huge amounts of fun .
A 164 race prepped car , fully gutted on slicks with a 3.2 gta motor looked the part but due t its weight and gearing was easily overtaken on the main straight by the wid body 3.024v GTV ( lap 63 plates) . This car with its straight cut box and torque resilient tube design propshaft with three universals just did not miss a beat . This car had done so many track days with this prop set up that I'm totally convinced its the way to go when you eliminate all rubber couplings and have Torque resilient tube taking up all the vibration / harmonics . ( well the centre bearing rubber takes up harmonics as well ) .
Some pics to follow of a good day out and also snapped a few of a chap buckling up in the training Spitfire for a 30 min / £3000 flip .