show have surely become utterly pointless.
Our Government and certain manufacturers
areforci ng us towards electric and autonomous
cars in spite of the fact that they are overly
expensive, not fit for purpose and nowhere near
as gree nasthey are made out to be when you
take into account the batteries and how the
electricity is generated. Not to mention the lack
of infrastructure and extra power stations that
will be needed to charge them. Nevertheless,
there were plenty on show.
However,the potential is there. The all-electric,
four-wheel-drive VW ID.R driven by 2016World
Endurance Champion and multi Le Mans and
Pikes Peak winner Romain Dumas was the fastest
car up the 1.16-mile-long hillclimb in ‘The Shoot
Out’ for the second year running. In practice the
talented Mr Dumas broke the outright hill record
set back in 1999 by Nick Heidfeld in his McLaren
MP4/13 F1 car.The VW stopped the clocks
at 39. 9seconds compared to Heidfeld’s41.1
seconds. There wasaspeci al class for Nascars,
which was won by five times Le Mans 24 Hour
winner Emanuele Pirro inaferocious 2016
Chevy SS inatimeof55.17 seconds. Hmm, that
puts it into perspective, doesn’tit? Abig to-do
was made ofadriverless, fully autonomous car
driving up the hill but it only got halfway before
grinding to halt, confused byanarro wsection
of the track, the straw bales andaflint wall. Not
there byalong way,methinks.
NASCAR is celebrating its 70th anniversarythis
year.Most of the NASCARs at Goodwood were
fairly modern machines, several of which were
owned byWill Spencer who owns TheWinston
Cup Museum inWinsto nSalem ,North Carolina.
These included Pirro’scar andalsothe 2016 Dale
Earnhardt Jnr Nationwide-liveried Camaro driven
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