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St. Mary’s Trophy Part 2 highlights

Soaking wet conditions for the St. Mary’s Trophy Part 2 really mixed up the leaderboard. Alex Thistlethwayte started from pole position in the enormous Ford Fairlane, but the low grip didn’t suit it; he fell down the order and would eventually cross the line in ninth place. Up front, it was an all-Jaguar affair for the win, with three Coventry saloons in contention.

One by one, Chris Ward (Jaguar Mk1), James Dorlin (Lister-Jaguar Mk1) and Grant Williams (Jaguar Mk1) made their way past the big Ford. Dorlin got away, leaving the two Jaguars in his wake to scrap for second place. And what a scrap it was. After lap after lap of close battle, Williams finally seized his moment and made the move on Ward, only for Ward to immediately fight back to regain the place. The result was a Jaguar one-two-three.

A special mention, too, for fourth place man Nick Swift. He fought hard to get his Mini right up the order, having started in 16^th place. Had the race run for longer, who knows whether he could have started mixing it with the race-leading Jaguars.

That was the result on the road, but the St. Mary’s Trophy overall result is aggregated from both parts of the race (Saturday saw the celebrity drivers in action). The combined result was Shedden/Ward in first, Brundle/Dorlin second and Soper/Thistlethwayte third.

St. Mary's Trophy Part 1 highlights

We had high hopes for a fierce battle in the St. Mary’s Trophy Part 1, and we weren’t disappointed. Things always get spicy when you put a bunch of professional drivers into 30 1950s saloon cars. It was clean racing, too, despite the drivers giving little more than an inch at times. Gordon Shedden got a great start from the front row of the grid in his Jaguar Mark 1, while pole-sitter Steve Soper fell back through the pack in his bulky Ford Fairlane. Tom Kristensen was another man in an over-sized Ford, and found himself in fourth place in the Thunderbird. Nor for long, though. He used all the track and a bit extra to get past Tom Ingram’s hard-charging Austin A40.

As the laps progressed, the big Fords progressed to the sharp end of things. In this battle of battleships, Soper led his one time Le Mans team-mate Kristensen. There were fights throughout the field, and the A40 drivers Andrew Jordan and Ingram collaborated to make a move on Shedden’s Jaguar on the Lavant Straight. Up front, the American Fords had traffic to negotiate and Soper succumbed to his fading brakes. Running wide at Woodcote, he gifted Kristensen the lead – and, as it was the final lap, to race win too. And relax...

St. Mary’s Trophy Part 1 Official Practice

The Goodwood assembly area becomes a who’s who of motorsport when it’s time to form up for Part 1 of the St. Mary’s Trophy. We have Formula 1 drivers, Le Mans winners, Indianapolis 500 winners and British Touring Car Champions all here to see who will come out on top in a field of 1950s saloon cars. You really do have to pinch yourself to check you’re not dreaming.

The circuit was damp and the rain was falling lightly for most of the Official Practice. For an idea of how limited grip was, you only needed to witness Steve Soper wrestling the long and wide Ford Fairlane. When he applied throttle on the start/finish straight, the car responded by squirming up the road while Soper worked to keep it pointing the right way. His efforts paid off as he topped the leader board for most of the session.

Elsewhere, nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen was taming a Ford Thunderbird, while Andrew Jordan had a more deft Austin A40 at his disposal. The latter was being hunted by Gordon Shedden in a Jaguar Mk1.

As the clock ticked down, Shedden knocked Soper off the top spot with a little more than two minutes to go, but the Fairlane driver did what he needed to do and claimed back pole position. The scene is set for a thrilling St. Mary’s Trophy race.

Photography by Charlie Brenninkmeijer and Joe Harding.

St. Mary’s Trophy Part 1 grid (Top 15)

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