1960 Goodwood Easter Monday meeting: You were there
Give me Goodwood on an Easter day… Some 55,000 people came to the Sussex track for this opening 1960 meet. Colin Weston was there too, capturing all the action
Elegant Lola-Climax of LW Keens stops for attention. Note Le Mans start markings on the straight
Stirling Moss entered three races, unusually coming second in both the F1 (in a Cooper) and F2 (Walker Porsche) events
Harry Schell didn’t fare well, suffering a broken throttle link on his Yeoman Cooper
Chris Bristow brought his Yeoman Credit Cooper home third in the Glover Trophy F1 race
Arden Sports Cars (not the team started by Christian Horner!) entered this Lotus 15
With an FJ victory under his belt, Jim Clark drove the Border Reivers Aston Martin DBR1 in the big sports car race, leading for a while before the car began to ail and he retired
“The enormous crowd, got excellent value for their ticket-money. Not only did 101 aeroplanes land there, but the racing was first class, with lap records falling all over the place.”
Read the original Motor Sport report from the 1960 Goodwood Easter Monday Meeting, including Innes Ireland’s great battle with Stirling Moss
Bruce Halford (later a regular in vintage racing) pauses in the pitlane in his F2 Cooper-Climax. The Surbiton cars couldn’t match the Lotus and Porsche up front
Graham Hill’s mid-engined BRM P48 didn’t star in the F1 race but he did collect one of the new ‘Goodwood Ton’ awards for a 100mph lap
In his Motor Sport report Bill Boddy called Innes Ireland “the new ace” when he beat Moss in the Formula 1 race
Henry Taylor’s F2 Laystall-Climax started life as a Lotus 12 but highly modified with a Laystall gearbox and Cooper front suspension
Climax motor of Peter Westbury’s Cooper will later be replaced by a Daimler V8 to make a successful hillclimber
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