On June 24th the OUMF student team returned victorious from a week of serious stage rallying in Belgium with their Riley 1.5 after scoring yet another Class win on their 10th Ypres Rally. Hardly had the DFDS ‘floating palace’ of a ferry disgorged the team at Dover before our attention turned back to competition on track - and the mammoth task of getting the 1959 Elva Courier Mk 2 back to race fettle for what would be its first race in 15 years. We knew the format for the Goodwood Revival’s ‘Fordwater Trophy’ had reverted to ‘production-based sports cars up to 1960’, and that as the Elva is an original ‘Goodwood’ car that raced there in period (and in 4 Revivals too) it might be in with a chance of being invited again. However, as no invitation had arrived, we reckoned that getting it out on track at this big meeting at Donington, and trying to catch the eye of the Goodwood scouts, represented the best, and possibly only chance of getting the car invited back.