Graham Goode Racing History

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After an exacting upbringing at Broadspeed Engineering, building internationally successful racing saloons, Graham built a Ford Anglia racing car, winning the Forward Trust Saloon Car Championship in his first full season of racing in 1974. After the Anglia more Championship successes followed when Graham built and campaigned numerous Ford Escort saloons, and a very special Lotus Elan. In 1984 Graham moved up to the British Touring Car Championship to race the highly successful GGR built Nissan Bluebird Turbo, the first non=factory turbocharged car built for the BTCC. Amazing success with these vehicles, and a rapid expansion of his business to cope with the demands for his expertise as a racing car constructor, led to his involvement with the now legendary Ford Sierra Cosworth starting with the 1987 British Touring Car Championship.

In August 1987 Graham scored the first ever win World-Wide for the Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500. In the following two years, more cars were built and run by GGR, with engines and other components also supplied to other racing teams. In 1988, GGR ran a second BTCC RS500 for Mike Newman and ran no fewer than three RS500s for the 1989 season. One was driven by Graham, the second two by Mike Newman and Sean Walker. The Sean Walker GGR RS500 was also driven by none other than 1996 World Formula One Champion, Damon Hill who was then a Touring Car debutante, who finished third overall in a two driver race at Donington Park. More BTCC successes followed in 1990 which the final year for the turbocharged RS500. In 1991 GGR built and ran a normally aspirated Sierra Cosworth, driven by Privateer Andy Middlehurst, who finished the championship well ahead of the official works-supported Ford Sapphire Cosworth of Robb Gravett!

From 1992, when Graham accepted an invitation to race an RS500 in Malaysian Touring Car races, and rounds of the South East Asian Touring Car Championship, another very successful chapter in the Company's history began. In the following three seasons, Graham won every Touring Car race he entered - except one, where he finished a very close second - competing against the likes of Nissan Skyline GTRs, DTM specification BMW M3s and Mercedes 190s.