How I raced a giant Lincoln Cosmopolitan with an automatic Gearbox at Goodwood

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
  • Goodwood Members' Meeting presented by Audrain has an eclectic mix of racing car and this monstrous 1954 Lincoln Cosmopolitan is no exception. It has a fantastic story and we caught up with owner Julian Balme.
    The V8 engine absolutely purrs around the #Goodwood Circuit, but it is no easy drive. Julian explains the driving technique involved navigating a 4-speed automatic against a field of agile manual cars.
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  • @GoodwoodRR
    @GoodwoodRR  ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is this the most relaxing way to go racing?

    • @maxboya
      @maxboya ปีที่แล้ว

      Hardly showed it racing

  • @martiniv8924
    @martiniv8924 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I hope you had a crate of moonshine in the back 😉

    • @matthew-jy5jp
      @matthew-jy5jp ปีที่แล้ว

      That's all you bring to the table huh ? Why are all of you on youtube so retarded ?

  • @PanAmRacer
    @PanAmRacer ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great video! I raced against you in 1991 ! The year that Nick Mason and the Pink Floyd crew made a their film ! Viva La Carrera Panamericana!

  • @EvanMoon
    @EvanMoon ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It is so cool to see that big of a car racing on a track

  • @shaggybreeks
    @shaggybreeks ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Unquestionably the most enjoyable racing program there ever was. Nobody does motor racing like the British.

  • @keithbarker7552
    @keithbarker7552 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Love it. Its the stuff that makes Goodwood the best. Thank you.

  • @JS-Galaxie500
    @JS-Galaxie500 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It was a wonderful thing to see at MM and it puts a smile on your face…..standing at the entry to Lavant it also tortures its front tyres. Hopefully we will see Wooly and Julio back very soon. The real essence of Goodwood

  • @JoelTurrell
    @JoelTurrell ปีที่แล้ว

    Gorn in 1943, I gobbled up every magazine article about those cars, and always hoped my grandfather would get one of them so I could sit behind the wheel (in the driveway, of course) and pretend I was racing through Mexico. The cars were all-conquering down there. The recesses of my memory are telling me they even won the Mobil Economy Run one year, which I thought astonishing. Sadly, we lived on the East Coast and I never got to see one on a race track. Thank you for this video!

  • @zaphodsrealm1549
    @zaphodsrealm1549 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What fun! I would love to see some of the race. The one bit in this vid showed you being chased by a Metropolitan! I'd be jumping up and down.
    Thanks for sharing👍

  • @leonismyname6573
    @leonismyname6573 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That car is wonderfully absurd, I love it!

  • @Scrubworks
    @Scrubworks ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw this car go round the track at the Bicester Flywheel event in 2016. Looked and sounded epic. It had orange wheels and whitewall tyres then.

  • @delewan
    @delewan ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember being absolutely thrilled to see Julian's Cosmo parked in the spectator lot at the Lime Rock Historics back in the late 90s. Somewhere I have a 35mm print of that.

  • @nzsaltflatsracer8054
    @nzsaltflatsracer8054 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Racing is racing & it sounds like he's having fun. The engine is actually a 337 flathead that makes about 150hp stock. I warmed one up that makes over 300, that'd put a bigger smile on his dial!🤓

  • @bobstark184
    @bobstark184 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve been reading Julian’s pieces on Wooly Bully in C&SC since I was a boy, and remember seeing him race what looked like a bog standard Sunbeam Tiger at Brands against properly prepared opposition around that time. Lovely to see this video 😊

  • @hityoutwo
    @hityoutwo ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic car, loved hearing about it

  • @markhale8084
    @markhale8084 ปีที่แล้ว

    Saw Julian run the Lincoln at Sears Point back in 90s, seems like I must have seen it at Laguna Seca too (I know I saw Julian at Historics but maybe with Falcon). HOPE to see at Revival as I have my tix, lodging, and flights! A Californian is on his way!! Bucket list event coming to fruition, so dang excited!!!

  • @bradgotschall3259
    @bradgotschall3259 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want the soundtrack of this ride😊

  • @matthew-jy5jp
    @matthew-jy5jp ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Some of the best races and racing drivers race at Goodwood

  • @daytona4406
    @daytona4406 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing love it

  • @UPnDOWN
    @UPnDOWN ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyed that, thanks!

  • @spinnetti
    @spinnetti ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice... I race a Lexus first gen LS400 lol.

  • @jamespatts9838
    @jamespatts9838 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I miss my 2 1954 Lincoln capri’s😔i had a 2 door and a 4 door… I had to sell them and move to Germany.

  • @texleeger8973
    @texleeger8973 ปีที่แล้ว

    That turquoise and vanilla Nash is rather racey and ultra-hipster. (I rode to and from high school now and then in one. Rather very uncool back then. As in more than five decades ago. :)

  • @danfarrell8958
    @danfarrell8958 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bias ply tires?

  • @highfive55
    @highfive55 ปีที่แล้ว

    ✌️

  • @rinocrew9607
    @rinocrew9607 ปีที่แล้ว

    volga 21 ruzzian have stolen the whole design of this car

  • @beefcakepantyhose6471
    @beefcakepantyhose6471 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mad respect. That has to be a hand full to race.

  • @britishbastard6561
    @britishbastard6561 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is what happens when money doesn’t ruin racing