Take my word for it, dreams do come true.

When Johan Woerheide received an invitation to take part in the 2007 Festival of Speed his first reaction was to call and ask me what it was all about and whether he should accept. If the loudness of my response wasn’t sufficient to convince him I am certain my reduction to gibbering fool status probably was. He accepted, of course and many phone calls about what to bring , and wear, and buy later, the car was loaded and on it’s way.

This is not just any car of course, Goodwood don’t do ordinary cars. Johan’s Lola T70 Mkll will remain forever the only Ford engined car to win a Can Am race. At Bridgehampton NY. In September 1966 Dan Gurney immortalized this car by beating Chris Amon’s McLaren by a cars length. At the time it probably meant little as that was only the second ever Can Am race. However Fords’ success in Can Am did not extend past that weekend as the Chevrolet steamroller ground all others into the tarmac – until they in turn were ground down by the Porsche turbo brigade.

With plans made and the car on it’s way a major surprise popped up when I received drivers details from the organizers. Thinking the mail had been wrongly addressed I called Goodwood, to be told I was entered as co-driver for the weekend.

As I said at the beginning, dreams do come true. It just seemed that all of mine had come through on the same day!