The Vintage Sports-Car Club
Autumn Sprint Goodwood
Goodwood Circuit, Chichester, West Sussex, UK
October 27, 2012
Images© & Text by Tim Surman Photography
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If you had turned up a the Goodwood Circuit, in West Sussex UK, on the 27th of October, you might of thought that is was a museum car race outing on the classic old circuit. But this is the annual visit to Goodwood for the VSCC for the Autumn Sprint.
Brough Superior Alpine GS 1936
Mind you would be forgiven for the mistake. Cars like the 1907 Wolseley Wolsit Coppa Florio, a fantastic name for any car, a car in the non-automobile engined Edwardian class, on a timed lap around the circuit.
Morgan 3 wheeler
From The Vintage Sports Car Club (VSCC) web site: "The Vintage Sports Car Club was founded in 1934 by a group of young men following a proposition in the now defunct magazine "The Light Car" that a 'club for the not so rich' be formed. The main concern was that the heyday of historic motoring was coming to an end."
The VSCC is about actively enjoying our motoring heritage.
The membership includes a wide variety of people from all walks of life, with a strong population of young, female and overseas members built about interest in the cars.
VSCC organize five race meetings a year at Silverstone, Oulton Park, Cadwell, Mallory and Donington as well as hill climbs at Wiscombe, Shelsley Walsh, Prescott and Loton Park as well as tours and social events.
ERA AJM 1
Austin 7 Ulster 1929
Riley TT Sprite 1935
The most moden car on the car, was a Riley 12 from 1940. All the cars are privately owned and are normally driven by the owner too.
Austin 7 Special
Goodwood is a fitting place for these vintage machines, very little has changed and the daunting high speed curves remain.
Austin /Hall-Scott EB4
Scat Racer 1911
Scat Racer 1911
Frazer Nash Colmore 1935
Scat Racer 1911
AMILCAR CGSs 1929
This was a very cold autumn meeting, a bright day with the sun very low in the sky adding to the drivers problems and adding a focus to their high speed runs.
Lea Francis Hyper S 1928
Austin/MG LA Special
Riley 9 1933
Riley Brooklands 1930
There might have been a number of mechanical failures (although surprising few for cars this old), no cars crashed.
Riley Special 1932/35
Riley Special 1932/35
Scat Racer 1911
Of course this is a sprint event, so the drivers could concentrate on their cars and line around the circuit to aim for the fastest.
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