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The second day of Goodwood festival of speed was favored by good weather with comfortable 20deg;C.
As a modern sports car, Mazda 787B is assigned driving stage with the other endurance racecars. 787B is scheduled to run hill climb twice a day during the event. The venue, hill climb course is 1.8-mile long and narrow road width. Because many cars drive the course, there are many sand and dust on the road so that it is slippery. And also, there are semicylindrical shape cambers here and there on the road. It makes lose control the car.
Mike Wilds, who has been driven F1 car for two years from 1975, is a veteran driver. He campaigns the Britcar production GTN Championship with Mazda MX-5 in this year. After he drove the demo run, “Some section is very slippery and some section lose the control. However, it is not so tough to off the course, if just pay attention at the sift change. I acclimate the 787B, because I drove yesterday. I am sure I can drive much better tomorrow,” he expressed.
David Kennedy, ex-Mazda factory driver, come to paddock to talk with Mazda UK staffs. On the other hand, Jaguar D type's Le Mans campaign 50th anniversary in this year. The Jaguar exhibits many Group C racing cars from XJR6 to XJR12. We saw one scene that 1990 Le Mans winner Jaguar XJR12 set beside the 1991 winner Mazda 787B.
Stirling Moss, the pioneer of the British racing driver, showed up today's hill climb. Although, he is around 80 years old, he got into his familiar car, Porsche 718 RS61 Spider, gallantly.
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