NASCAR to burn rubber at Goodwood Members’ Meeting

| 12 Dec 2018
Classic & Sports Car – NASCAR to burn rubber at Goodwood Members' Meeting

Yee-haw! NASCAR is coming to the Goodwood Members’ Meeting 2019.

Yes, you read that right. It’s been confirmed that a NASCAR demonstration will thrill the crowds at next April’s event – and it will be the first time that a group of these muscle-car racers will descend on the West Sussex circuit.

The plan is for more than a dozen machines to gather on the grid, before bringing the noise with a high-speed demonstration. It should be quite the spectacle.

Classic & Sports Car – NASCAR to burn rubber at Goodwood Members' Meeting

Of course, it’s not quite the first time we’ve ever seen NASCAR at the Members’ Meeting debut: the photo above shows Emanuele Pirro burning rubber earlier this year, and he was preceded by Mike Skinner in his Toyota Tundra Truck last year and Max Chilton in 2016. 

However these were all one-car runs, and merely preludes to 2019’s bigger display.

NASCAR is a series with its roots in the 1940s that today sees 850bhp, 5.8-litre, pushrod V8 powerhouses going wheel-to-wheel across the USA in cars that can hit 200mph in a straight line.

As well as their limited outings at previous Members’ Meetings, these wild racers have also taken to Goodwood’s hillclimb at the Festival of Speed.

Classic & Sports Car – NASCAR to burn rubber at Goodwood Members' Meeting

“I think for most fans NASCAR is all about the noise, and we will have that in abundance,” said Matt Hearn, Motorsport Content Manager at Goodwood.

“The old-school pushrod V8 design is one of the greatest sounding engines of all time, and having over a dozen of them on track at once is sure to stop everyone in their tracks. It certainly won’t be for the faint-hearted!”

This is the final high-speed demonstration revealed for next spring’s Members’ Meeting, hot on the heels of the news that M1 Procars and Le Mans Prototypes will also be in action over the weekend.

Full races already announced include pre-1966 Minis in the new Betty Richmond Trophy, pre-1930 racers in the John Duff Trophy and Edwardian monsters in the SF Edge Trophy.

The 77th Members’ Meeting takes place on 6 and 7 April 2019. Tickets are available now to Goodwood Road Racing Club and Fellowship Members. For information on how to join the Fellowship click here.


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