Shoot-out for hilltop honours (From Daily Echo)

Goodwood's Festival of Speed

12:31pm Wednesday 8th July 2009 in Cars By Glynn Williams

JUSTIN Law started the weekend favourite to keep the title of ‘king of the hill’ but this year the fight was on with the new final shoot-out between the weekend’s fastest few.

The front-running machines were diverse but the times were close on the 1.16-miles twisting dash up the front drive of Goodwood House often used by coaches carrying racegoers to the famous equestrian racecourse.

Challenging Law in his TWR Le Mans racing Silk Cut Jaguar was Gary Ward in the Leyton House Judd Formula 1 car and Anthony Reid in the innocuous-looking Nissan Primera saloon touring car, and others in an assortment including other F1 machines.

Law had set a personal best in the morning, clocked at 44.76sec but then in the afternoon Ward pipped that with 44.64sec. Somehow Law found the extra edge and clocked 44.4sec for top honours.

Interestingly, as racecar preparing dad Don Law told me, the cars tested back-to- back in the 1980s and even then they were neck and neck.