Generations of Racing Machines

It's a tradition at Goodwood Festival of Speed to feature many generations of Can Am, Formula 1 and other types of old race cars. The main event is the hill climb race. I have always been interested in these cars and have been wanting to see this for a long time. There were a lot of race cars and many famous racer car drivers there at GOODWOOD FoS but I only knew of Sir Stirling Moss.

Lola Formula. This generation Formula is cool. The mirrors are like GT500 type. The Lola below however, is an Indy Car - not F1. It felt like I was standing inside a US Pit area.

The photos above are also of an Indy Car. If you notice in the image showing the front, the right-side suspension looks asymetrical as it sticks out further than the left. Indy is a left-turning oval track so a main characteristic is the right side suspension like this.

A long time ago, around 1968, Indy was held at Fuji Speedway in Japan. For these Indy cars that were made for oval-tracks to run on a course like Fuji took severe planning.

During that time, Dean MOON also came to Japan - even worked on an racing engine for Nissan.

Is this an Indy Lotus/Ford?

Racing machines included Ferrari, McLaren, Lotus and many other Formula cars.

This is a Can Am Car, Lola T-160 (dressed in blue) and T-70 (wearing red) and a McLaren M8F (image on far right).

Also, Dean Moon's good buddy designed the AVS Shadow MK1 shown above in black - in which the driver is exposed so much it almost looks like a Go-cart.

A Ford GT40, some really old ones running and more recent models, from the morning to the evening - the entire day - racers took on the hill climb event.