CBT Camaro Z28 to join the star cars at Goodwood

The CBT Motorsport Chevrolet Camaro is set to play a starring role at the prestigious Goodwood Festival of Speed, 23-26 June, celebrating the motorsport career of 1976 World Champion James Hunt.

The CBT Camaro is a replica of the machine which, piloted by Hunt and Autosport Editor Robert Fearnall, won the 1973 Avon Tour of Britain.

Goodwood is this year commemorating the 40th anniversary of Hunt’s World Championship victory with an impressive line-up of his old racing cars. Stuart Scott has been asked by Lord March to run the Camaro over the weekend to help complete the James Hunt story.

In addition to the James Hunt 40th anniversary, the 2016 Goodwood theme is “Full Throttle”, so the 460bhp Camaro should feel at home during the weekend with more than 200,000 worldwide visitors expected at the glorious Goodwood House setting.

“We are delighted to have been asked,” said Stuart. “The Tour of Britain 1973 was a landmark in James Hunt’s career, in the era when Grand Prix drivers would be allowed to take part in all sorts of motorsporting events and it is a privilege to be taking part at such a prestigious event.”

The Camaro has already been driven in Hunt’s wheeltracks, seeing action on the Tour Britannia, driven by Richard Lloyd between 2005 and ’07, and every year since crewed by Stuart Scott and Steve Wood. They won their class four years in succession from 2011 and have achieved a second and a third overall finish in recent years.