8 banned racing cars at Goodwood | Festival of Speed

Sometimes cars are banned for being, just a bit too good, sometimes cars are banned for safety reasons, sometimes cars see the rules change to effectively ban them and sometime cars just completely and utterly break the rules until they are banned.

The cars in this video, all conform to one fo those scenarios, but since we love all motorsport history at Goodwood, each one has been seen on the famous Hill at the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard.

It’s quite a mix too, from the Celica GT-Four, which would eventually be thrown out of the championship in its later guise for pushing the rules so far it was just plain breaking them, to the Lotus 56 turbine car, which was effectively banned when turbine-powered cars were outlawed at the Indy 500. Some of them we think are just really cool innovations, and some really did overstep the mark, but all deserve to be showcased in motorsport history.

Let us know which is you favourite banned racing car.

#FOS #banned #motorsport

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Toyota Celica GT-Four
01:25 Brabham BT46B “fan car”
02:10 Chaparral 2E
02:51 Chaparral 2J
03:37 Lotus 56
04:35 Chevrolet Hendrick “T-Rex”
06:19 Plymouth Superbird
07:44 Lotus 88

[GoodwoodRR]

Which car should never have been banned?

[demonhighwayman]

A brief explanation about why they were banned would have been interesting.

[diablo_rosso]

For those wondering why these cars were banned:

Toyota GT Four: Hidden elastic washers could bypass the restrictor plate(One of the cleverest "cheating" methods in WRC ).


Brabhan BT46B: Used a fan to create down force, considered a moving aerodynamic part.


Chaparral 2E: High strut mounted wings were outlawed in all forms of motorsport due to safety.


Chaparral 2J : Used a fan to create down force, considered a moving aerodynamic part.


Lotus 56: Used a turbine engine that were later banned.


Chevy "TRex" : Just too fast for NASCAR, as per Hendrick racing the rule books were changed after it qualified inspection specifically to
ban this car.


Superbird: Concerns by NASCAR that aero cars are becoming too fast and are therefore unsafe, the car was also heavily modified and was considered to be too different from stock for stock car racing.


Lotus 88: Twin Chassis design to take advantage of ground effect, twin tubs were considered as moving aerodynamic devices

[jdmlover]

I think the title is tricking some people but these are cars that have been banned from their racing series not actual Goodwood. At least that’s what I’m guessing

[joshuajacome]

You gotta love the Lotus driver with his flappy ears helmet

[mozopoiluche]

Chaparral 2J was my absolutely nightmare on Gran Turismo 4, just unbeatable.

[RetroGamerr]

All right so there's an interesting story behind the T-Rex after looking it up. Ray Evernham applied a lot of short track knowledge to that car that was technically inside the rule books. He removed a lot of unsprung weight from components like having hollow axles, titanium hubs and an aluminum driveshaft. He moved the shocks outboard and raised the frame rails to allow for a Venturi effect under the car. It was a full second faster than the entire field throughout the only race it ever ran.

[XskiXedgeX]

Guess I'm not alone in completely misunderstanding the title.

[aussiebloke]

The tricky thing with the BT46B is that it requires a different driving style to get the most out of it - as the fan drive was attached to the crankshaft, you wanted to enter a corner at max revs for the best suction, rather than at lower revs so you can drive yourself out of the corner.

[Sparkyy_]

Wrong Celica at the start, the ST185 was not banned. The ST205 was banned from WRC after engineers created a genius bypass of the restrictor on the intake of the turbo, thus making more boost and power.

[RockTuner]

It's great to see Jeff Gordon's T-Rex still runs great and still do burnouts!

[jellobunn]

The Plymouth Superbird is such a beauty

[patrikcsak]

Toyota Celica GT-Four: -Banned for illegal turbo restrictor- Not banned. Team was disqualified for using turbo restrictor to cheat in a later GT-Four
Brabham BT46: -Banned for fan being a moveable aerodynamic device- Banned for being too good
Chaparral 2E: Banned for wing strut failures being unsafe
Chaparral 2J Banned for sliding skirts being moveable aerodynamic devices
Lotus 56: Banned for using turbine engine
Chevrolet Hendrick T-Rex: Banned for being too good
Plymouth Superbird: Banned for dangerously high top speeds
Lotus 88: Banned for side skirts being moveable aerodynamic devices

[TheRouger]

Where's the explanation of why each were banned?

[randalljames]

00:14 Toyota Celica GT-Four (cheating)
01:25 Brabham BT46B “fan car” (active vacuum to stick car down)
02:10 Chaparral 2E "Active suspension"
"2:51 Chaparral 2J "even better active suspension

03:37 Lotus 56 "Turbine power"
04:35 Chevrolet Hendrick “T-Rex” "Everham built the car "to the book" but found a few points (front bumper) that made the car dominate.
06:19 Plymouth Superbird "Banned with other aero cars as speeds were getting too fast.. big motors also axed..
07:44 Lotus 88 "Active aeros that let the car dominate.. **note to self, if your car kills? just win by a little bit, not 20 minutes ahead..

[anthonyhewis]

The Brabham BT46B was never banned. Bernie Ecclestone withdrew it voluntarily to prevent a split inside the nascent Formula One Constructors Association.

[probablygraham]

It's a sin to hear the Brabham running so slowly. I remember the Alfa V12 engine sounding even better than a Ferrari.

[mooneyesk]

The Brabham 46B wasn't, per se, banned. It was voluntarily withdrawn after only one race, but FIA had ruled that it would be allowed to race the entire season. Bernie Ecclestone didn't want to risk his F1-political aspirations, though, and had it removed.

[bikerlife]

"So excited to hear" then proceeds to talk over the whole time

[modelcitizen]

4:40 I love this gesture, "IMMORTAN! IMMORTAN JOE!" And in frenzied tribute he takes off his own steering wheel and holds it high for his god to see. So freaking cool.