Lewis WILL drive a race winning car in 2009! (updated)

There’s no Grand Prix this weekend, just wall-to-wall Andy bloody Murray, but there is an escape from the tennis in the shape of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the motorsport highlight of the year bar none.

The Festival gets a different… theme every year, this year it is ‘True Grit – Epic Feats of Endurance’ which sounds like a John Wayne film but essentially every year is the same, with a mouthwatering array of cars blasting up Lord March’s driveway. Simple but effective. The weekend should cheer Lewis Hamilton up, after half a year of driving one of the worst F1 cars on the grid, he’ll get to drive the most dominant F1 car of all time, Ayrton Senna’s 1988 MP4-4, which racked up 15 wins from 16 races, 15 pole positions, and 199 points. Not too shabby.

Grand Prix Diary will be at the Festival, probably propping the bar up at the start line beer tent, so we’ll bring you all the gossip from Goodwood next week..

Update - Sadly, Bruno Senna managed to break the unbreakable MP4-4 on the Saturday, so Lewis didn’t get a go…

Tags: Ayrton Senna, Bruno Senna, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-2009

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