Going from the Volkswagen ID.R, the all-electric hillclimb weapon that broke the Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard record in July, to a big, heavy, V8 brute like a Ford Thunderbird sounds like a challenge, doesn't it? Well it would be for most of, but not for someone as skilled as Romain Dumas.
That's right, the man who stunned the crowds by breaking the Festival of Speed's all-time record, a time set twenty years previously, has swapped the best of modern German engineering for the best of 1950's American engineering...
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Romain Dumas
Bill Shepherd
Ford
Thunderbird
St Marys Trophy