The youngest grid will be assembled at the Goodwood Revival for the inaugural Settrington Cup.
A full field of 30 Austin J40 pedal cars will be competing in a two-part race on Saturday and Sunday. Results will be declared on aggregate timing, and the prizes being presented by Sir Stirling Moss. Surely to be one of the most closely-contested races of the Revival weekend!
With an average age of eight years old, the competitors in the Settrington Cup will pedal a short circuit around the main Goodwood grid pit lane of around 220 yards, a tenth of the overall Goodwood circuit, with a Le Mans-style running start, and a chicane on the start/finish straight. Each competitor will wear period overalls and a 1950s-style crash helmet. When not racing, the J40s will be parked in their own dedicated half-scale period wooden paddock shelters.
The Austin J40 is something of a British motoring institution. The pedal car was built at the Austin Junior Car Factory in Bargoed, South Wales. This dedicated factory began Austin pedal car production in 1949, with the plant funded by the British Government. It was run on a not-for-profit basis, purely for the employment of disabled coal miners, with 250 men assembling both the J40 pedal car, plus the racy Pathfinder, loosely based around a single-seater competition Austin Seven. Production ended in 1971.
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