McLaren GT ace Rob Bell passed Travis Pastrana to win a hotly contested Goodwood Festival of Speed Shootout in 2021.
Bell, a McLaren GT works driver, put in his McLaren 720S GT3X an impressive run on the 1.86 km Goodwood Hill Climb and drove an effort of 45.01 seconds despite the threat of rain.
The popular American extreme athlete Pastrana had led qualifying in a modified Subaru WRX STI and was ahead in the first sector, but couldn’t keep up after a wild slide against Bell towards the end of the run.
In the end, Pastrana had to be content with second place, 1.19 seconds ahead of Bell. The absolute official hill climb record still belongs to former Formula 1 driver Nick Heifdfeld when the German drove a 41.6-second time in a McLaren MP4 / 13 F1 car in 1999.
A 1988 Spice-Cosworth sports car owned by Jeremy Smith set the third fastest time after leading the times before Bell and Pastrana hit the track.
The shootout was interrupted by a long red flag when Jack Tetley lost control of his 2012 Chevrolet Camaro NASCAR while fleeing to the finish line.
Tetley put a wheel on the grass, which Chevrolet whirled into the hay bales at high speed, damaging the front and rear of the car.
One of the hot favorites, six-time Goodwood shootout winner Justin Law, was missing from the final despite setting the fourth fastest time in qualifying.
However, shooting the Flint Wall during a morning run did significant damage to the 1993 Bud Light-backed Jaguar XJR-12D, which was driven by David Brabham, John Andretti, John Nielsen and Davy Jones during that time.
The five-time 24-hour winner of Le Mans, Emanuele Pirro, drove the first real benchmark time with 58.63 seconds in the breathtaking Ferrari 250 GTO “Breadvan”.
This time was overshadowed at the next run when Kenny Acheson fired in the Group C Sauber Mercedes C9 in a quick 52.27 seconds.
Ric Wood was the next to impress in an ex-Rick Kelly Holden Commodore V8 Supercar, jumping on the second fastest jump just 0.86 seconds later. Time put Wood at the top of the touring car category ahead of Julian Thomas’ Andy Rouse-painted Ford Sierra RS500 and a 1999 BTCC Super Touring Car Renault Laguna driven by Mark Jones.
The action resumed after the red flag was broken with raindrops in the air, but failed to stop factory Toyota BTCC driver Rory Butcher, who briefly put Sppedworks Corolla in third place before his Motorbase / MB Motorsport BTCC rival Jake Hill walked up the hill in Ric Wood. owned by HKS painted 1990 Nissan Skyline GTR.
Following the exploits of Bell, Pastrana and Smith, Hill finished the shootout in fifth place overall and won the touring car class, while last year’s Porsche Carerra Cup Great Brian Champion Harry King finished fourth.
The Praga R1, driven by Ales Jirasek, finished sixth ahead of Anthony Reid, who drove a former Carlos Sainz Ford Escort WRC, while Acheson was eighth.
The top 10 was completed by Wood in the Holden Commodore, followed by Butcher.
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