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I'm glad the recovery teams treat the cars with the care and reverence they deserve. Of course delays disrupt the races, but driver safety and preservation of the cars must come first. With such a packed schedule, safety cars are a more practical alternative to red flags. Friday night's Kinrara Trophy and Saturday's Sussex Trophy races had an extra three minutes added to each because the organisers had kept to schedule and so could be flexible.

I don't know, maybe the removal of a car at the Revival is also a sacred ritual to give people time to appreciate the damage or loss? These cars are what makes the Revival so special - museum pieces with impeccable pedigree that are raced as fast as they ever were around a historic circuit pretty much preserved from the 1960s. It is fascinating to delve into the histories of these individual cars, so often documented in books, magazines and auctioneers' brochures.

The 1958 Lister-Chevrolet 'Knobbly' - chassis BHL110 - that crashed so heavily in the Sussex Trophy race is one of 48 'Knobbly' cars produced and is a rarity as an early chassis shipped to the US without an engine and a Chevy V8 fitted on arrival. Sixteen chassis were built specifically to take the heavier, more powerful Chevy V8s - but BHL110 was not one of them. The 'Dean Van Lines' car raced throughout the US between 1958 and 1960, crashing heavily at the 1960 LA Times Grand Prix at Riverside. It was retired until 1969 when it was sold to Dr Jonathan Evans who enlisted the help of Brian Lister to restore the car for racing in historic events. Evans sold the car at auction in 2011 and the new owner Roberto Giordanelli continued to race the car - including at Goodwood Revival. The car was sold to the current owner Geraint Owen in July this year for £675,000. He was driving the car when it crashed.

Damage to the Lister-Chevy aside, it was a spectacular Sussex Trophy...