Goodwood Revival, Sept. 2023

This weekend a Vincent Comet is scheduled to run at the Goodwood Revival meeting. Exactly what Comet model I 'm not able to say, it could be an Egli Comet or Patrick Godet's exquisite Grey Flash. I don't know how many replica's of this model were made, but it may well be that they may be counted on the fingers of one hand - and still have fingers spare !
Let's hope its fine weather for all .

I wonder what sort of competition the rules for the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy are designed to create ? If it is supposed to be historic racing, the cut-off date would probably exclude Seeley and Egli frames. However I do not think it is. One of the bikes which John Surtees built was a Seeley 7R AJS - one of those with a G50 motor would be hard to beat.
The trouble is the organisers change the rules to exclude bikes which win too convincingly. The MV3s and 1000cc Vincents are gone.
That might be a good thing.

Snotzo said:

This weekend a Vincent Comet is scheduled to run at the Goodwood Revival meeting. Exactly what Comet model I 'm not able to say, it could be an Egli Comet or Patrick Godet's exquisite Grey Flash. I don't know how many replica's of this model were made, but it may well be that they may be counted on the fingers of one hand - and still have fingers spare !
Let's hope its fine weather for all .

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I don't think the bike races are about the numbers of replicas. All the cars in the car races are supposed to be genuine. The guys who ride in the Barry Sheene must get their eligibility information from somewhere . They would not just arrive and hope to ride.

At this years revival (2024) there was a particularly wet session, where Davey Todd was circulating quite quickly on a 1929 BMW:


No sign of any Vincent content in this one though.

Any word on how the Velocettes went? I believe two were in top 10 in preliminary runs.

DougC said:

At this years revival (2024) there was a particularly wet session, where Davey Todd was circulating quite quickly on a 1929 BMW:


No sign of any Vincent content in this one though.

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Both the bike and the rider were supercharged - Troy Corser ?

Tornado said:

Any word on how the Velocettes went? I believe two were in top 10 in preliminary runs.

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Both Vincents and Velocettes had Phil Irving involved in their designs, and are equally difficult. The nicest bike I have seen in recent years was a nut and bolt perfect Velocette Clubmans. I would never buy a Velocette. I was offered a Manx frame with a Mk8 KTT motor and gearbox fitted, it had AJS 7R brakes. - All good bits but in the wrong bike.