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“It was a dream come true, certainly since I’ve been in F1,” he smiles. “I’ve had the privilege of going to Goodwood a few times beforehand and it’s just an incredible event. To have the opportunity to not just drive up the hill, but to drive up the hill representing Williams Racing, that really for me was… I mean, when I was asked it took me about a second to say yes!
“I loved every second of it, and that includes not just the run up the hill, but when you’re up the hill and you’re coming back down, you’re waving to all the marshals, and you’re waving to the crowd… When you’re sat there in the car and the pen right at the beginning, and you can just… You have tens of thousands of people around you. Where else do you get that?”
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So, with plenty of classic Williams cars sitting in the museum at their Grove factory, which also boasts a dedicated Heritage department, what’s the next machine on Vowles’s list?
“I mean, time is actually my biggest restriction, I think, more than anything else,” he comments. “Let’s put it this way, Goodwood is a special event for us, and it creates a good opportunity to drive these cars, and there will be, don’t worry, many other opportunities where we’ll be taking a whole mixture of cars up and down.
“I have never counted them, but I’d say there’s 50 cars or so [in the museum], each one restored to perfect condition, and there’s another 100-plus that we are yet to work through and restore… We have two individuals who are really special within our Heritage team. Jim Barker is one of them, and Jonathan Kennard is the second one, and you would lose your life just listening to the stories they have on every single car.
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