THE weekend's tenth Goodwood Revival was enjoyed by a record 116,000 spectators who were treated to dramatic historic racing - and some major crashes involving priceless machines.
By far the worst was that involving Goodwood stalwart and historic car race ace Martin Stretton, 48, when the car he was driving, a Ferrari-like ISO Bizzarrini A3C went straight on at Madgwick corner at the end of the pit straight.
Clerk of the course John Felix estimated the impact speed at "about 120mph" and the crowd, convinced there must have been serious injuries, was silent as marshals and rescue crews worked to free Stretton from the wreckage embedded in the tyre wall for more than half an hour.
Then he was stretchered to an ambulance and taken to the nearby St Richard's Hospital at Chichester.
But amazingly he had suffered only a fractured elbow, was later discharged and was back at the circuit yesterday chatting to staff.
John Felix said: "He was apologising for holding things up.
" Later Barrie Whizzo' Williams, who had been due to take over the car for the second half of the race, dedicated victory in the Glover Trophy to Martin and said: "He's responsible for looking after the car as well as racing it so he was trying to stop the marshals cutting it up too much!" Stretton is probably best known for racing the six-wheel Tyrrell F1 car.
■ The crashed car was the brainchild of Ferrari rebel Dr Ing Giotto Bizzarrini, acknowledged as the father of the 250 Testa Rossa and the 250 GTO.
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