Last Friday I was mindlessly killing some time on Facebook, when I happened to stumble across the livestream of Goodwood’s Kinrara Trophy race for over 3-liter GT cars. Dubbed as the world’s most expensive race grid, this one-hour twilight race featured 8 Ferrari 250 SWBs, 8 Jaguar E-Types, 4 Ferrari GTOs, 4 Aston Martin DB4GTs, 2 Cobras, 2 Big Healeys and a Maserati 3500 GT thrown in for good measure. With a Ferrari 250 GTO having just sold at Monterey for $52 million, the combined value of the Kinrara field was pushing a half a billion dollars!
What immediately sucked me in was a stunning battle royale at the front between the Ferrari 250 GT “Breadvan” of Emanuele Pirro and Niklas Halusa swapping the lead back and forth with the Jaguar E-Type of Jon Minshaw and Phil Keen. As has become expected at Goodwood, these guys were flat-out, hammer-and-tong racing, with no quarter asked, and none given…and they weren’t alone. All up and down the 30-car Kinrara field, there was action and a commensurate amount of cringe-worthy carnage. And when I say cringe-worthy, I mean rear-ended Ferrari 250 GTO, smashed up E-Types, wildly spinning Aston Martin DB4GTs…that kind of cringe –worthy!
