Goodwood 83rd Members Meeting

Callum Richards April 29, 2026

We must have remembered to make the bed and fold our towels, because much to our delight, Goodwood asked us to come back.

This year’s Members Meeting, the 83rd meeting of its kind, would see a reunion of the 1990’s Super Tourers.

As fate would have it. We have one.

To be specific, we have a Team Schnitzer E36 Super Tourer in our collection. Chassis no. 022, it was the runner up in the 1995 German ADAC Super Touren Wagen Cup at the hands of Peter Kox.

Recommissioning a 30 year old race car is no quick task. While our E36 is a running, driving car it would be a tall order to bring it up to code to pass a scrutineers inspection before the event and send it around the track.

With that in mind, we agreed it would be for static display and join its fellow E36 tourers in the paddock.

To do this car justice, we decided to replace some of the more intricate Warsteiner livery that had started peeling after years of snagging on cleaning cloths.

With the decals complete it was time to give the rest of the paintwork a good polish and get the interior ready for the public eye.

Loading a car as low as the Super Tourer is never an easy task. But, where there’s a bit of wood, there’s a way!

With that, Barney and Steve headed off to Goodwood to deliver the E36 before the weekend kicked off.

We’ll check back in with the E36 in a short while…

Saturday:

My compadres and I pitched up just in time to catch the S.F. Edge Trophy. The sound of these 1900’s pre-war racing machines is enough to stir the soul and as I remarked after our trip to Brooklands in the summer, I’ll forever tip my hat to the bravery of these chaps.

One machine even had a seat made of wicker! Perhaps Recaro is missing a trick there…

As a Jaaag man… I’m glad I was able to get around to the pits in time after the practice session for the all new Protheroe Cup and get up close and personal with those straight-six engines.

It may have only been a practice session but the drivers seemed determined to go hell for leather around the corners in these old E-Types and it was brilliant entertainment to watch.

Gyro’s in hand, (and Ray’s stomach appeased) we made our way towards the Super Tourer paddock to catch up with our E36, and to find the mystical Ford Mondeo’s.

I found myself roadside at the Super Tourer paddock as it began to empty, with drivers and teams making their way to the assembly point.

If I needed further evidence that the Halse family blood type is E5, then his brother Jody is the proof. Aside from being an accomplished actor, he also heads up Climax Motorsport and has his own E36 318i Super Tourer. Driven by Steve Soper to win the Japanese Touring Car Championship in 1995 for the Works Team, and now piloted by Jody in the Super Touring Demo laps.

Thanks to Barney for the on-track photos.

To me, these cars represent one of the most exciting periods of motorsport, where teams pushed the limits of what these family saloon cars were capable of, and drivers pushed the limits of ‘non-contact’ racing!

The E36’s looked fantastic in their white livery alongside their peers, and while I often remark jovially that the Ford Mondeo is the greatest car ever made and the machine that first sparked my love of cars, it was a surreal moment to see one in person again after 30 years.

Anyone (myself included) who might have been too young to see James Hunt race in his prime should watch the 2013 film ‘Rush’. Hollywood elements aside, it offers a glimpse of the larger than life antics of Hunt in the 1970’s.

As part of the 83rd Members Meeting, we celebrate the James Hunt Years and his 1976 Formula 1 World Championship Title.

Hunt’s son Freddie took to the track in his old McLaren leading a parade of Hunt’s competitors from the 1970’s.

Highlight of the day, had to be the Win Percy Trophy. These 70s and 80s touring saloons gave us some of the most intense racing of the day.

Chris Harris in the Alfa Romeo suffered a mechanical during the formation lap and had to retire to the pits before things really got heated.

Storming ahead was Tom Kristensen in his 1979 Volkswagen Golf GTI that sounded like a screaming banshee and fending off advances from Mini’s and RS2000’s for the entirety of the race. That is until the Golf was pushed a little too hard and ran into a spot of bother, having to be nursed around the final lap, leaving the door open for Alex Buncombe in the Mini 1275 GT to clinch the lead on the final lap and take the flag.

As with any racing of this kind, there was an element of contact as two of the Escorts battled for position on the final corner, sending them onto the grass in a cloud of turf and dust.