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No queues to get in.  Hardly anyone round the back of the circuit - felt like a track day.  Food and drink fairly priced.

The circuit looked gorgeous with cherry blossom and daffodils out. 

Fabulous spectating, great racing, brilliant paddock with unfettered access. 

Great atmosphere.  Relaxed, convivial.  Very much like the first few Revival Meetings.

We left when the racing finished - at gone 7pm in the dark.  However there was music and fireworks into the night.

What's not to like?  If I was to be really picky the demos were all a bit disappointing (Turbo F1s, GpB, long tail LeMans).  The flip side of that is those same cars in the paddock were much more impressive than photos can convey: a real treat to see them, in such quantity, so close and with no crowding.  It was worth the trip to Goodwood just to see those GpBs parked in a line let alone all the rest.

A great success.

David

David, thank you for the over view, some lovely Lancias on display and on the track...have to say, I've a soft spot for the green B20


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Excellent set of photographs David, thank you. I do believe you were in your seventh heaven!!!!!!

                                           Andy

What a good weekend for it, weatherwise. I like the Madgwick photo. Now set as'wallpaper' for this week.

Wonderful photos David! Thank you for sharing them with us - almost felt like being there. Obviously your new camera is a good investment from which we can all derive benefit.

Colin

It was a privilege to be there.

While the demos (F1, LeMans, GpB) were a bit tame the two Ferrari F40 pace cars were impressive and the new McClaren hybrid really did look, sound and go like something from another planet.  Out of the chicane it was squirming with its tail lights flashing well past the pit entrance before it found enough grip for warp drive.  It made the CanAms seem like peddle cars.

I still think the best historic F1 experience is to be right next to the grid at Brands Hatch.

Anyone any tips on the best place to see GpBs in action?  The Goodwood special stage is a bit tight and slippy aside from the terrible dust and poor views.  An event I keep missing is the Stratos gathering at Abingdon.  I also have never quite made it to the Castle Coombe rally day.

David

Makes my efforts look very amateur. Still writing report and checking out my 1500 images. Here is one of Chris Gawn taken on the re-start, and one car I think you may have missed, but probably not.

I think that particular 037 would be my "car I most wanted to take home"...  Lovely shot.

David

......you would have to arm wrestle me for it David.......I take it that its the real mc Coy?

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Oh yes...

Stiff competition from Chris's Aurelia, that 037 Stradale in the carpark, the obvious 250SWBs (for all not nice over the bumps...). The formula juniors pull me in more and more but that may be the variety of them more than any one example.  Quite a choice of Bugattis - I'd settle for a wire wheel four cylinder T37 but would insist on it being supercharged.  A post war Bristol engined Nash would probably have been the choice for the drive home.   That Porsche in the pits is a bit special...

David

Basically......anything fancy on four wheels David....... ;D

Chris's B20.......looks the part...any more pics of it at full pelt?


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Another. All images Copyright www.retro-speed.co.uk.

Luvin' that one.............thanks

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Here is one with Chris in front! Copyright.

Thanks again.....great pic.......:)


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Finished in front of the Alfa and the Jowett! Great race (and great photos David and peter).. More comments about the superb weekend/event when I am next at my desk.
Chris

Just a great weekend with Goodwood's usual attention to detail. You can see that they allocated the Italian car in my event adjoining garages - the next door Ferrari came from the USA for the event and the next one along was an Italian car.
Thousands and thousands of daffodils through Lavant and the chicane and the circuit looked fabulous. My overriding impressions were the spectators enthusiasm for the 'access all areas' policy including grid walks before the races, the general air of 'fun' as there were lots of activities for wives/girlfriends and children which were not motorsport related and everybody's affability.
Also I should mention that in the LMC we do not know how lucky we are to have our Goodwood trackday. I chatted to several Historic racers who I know from other events (who were not competing at Goodwood) and they all mentioned rather wistfully how much they would, like to drive around Goodwood!
Saturday and Sunday were both sunny and dry albeit a little breezy from time to time but the circuit remained dry for both days. My race was red flagged about halfway through because a Rochdale GT ended up on its roof at St Marys and after the restart there were several incidents caused by overdriving on cold tyres. I had a great time on the track as the car went well, I got the tyre pressures right (Dunlops are tricky I find) and I started 24th and finished 16th. I was called into the Clerk of the Course at Race Control after the race which was a little worrying but all he wanted was a witness statement regarding an offending driver who overtook through 2 waved yellos and SC signs after the big accident. He will have been suitably taken to task and will probably have blown his chances of another invite from Goodwood because of that 'red mist'.
Funnily enough the guy I bought OFV570 from 19 years ago as a wreck for spares, Andrew Purcell from Wrexham with whom I have had no contact since,  turned up for a chat in the paddock and muttered that he wished he had hung onto the car. Strangely enough, about 6 months ago out of the blue someone contacted me and sent me a photo of the car at an auction in Manchester in the early 80's where it was sold for £175.....to Andrew Purcell!
Bearing in mind I paid Andrew £1,500 for the car I was able to tell him he actually did alright!!
Sunny weather on Saturday and Sunday with lots of socializing by everyone including an amazing party at the circuit on Saturday evening with fire eaters, disco, brass bands, circus, helter skelter, stilts dancers, carousel, bars etc etc and then to cap it all the very best (by a long long way) fireworks display I have ever seen.
I will attach a couple of photos, one of the paddock and the other of the grid forming up taken from behind which is quite interesting.
The signs are that the event will take place next year.

1st photo

Great story Chris..........I find it all fascinating how the smallish number of B20s, both UK registered and imported have been re-circulated over the decades.

Only 25 sold in UK during their production, how many of those survive and indeed how many more were imported to UK and or survive also?


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2nd photo

What is the car at the rear of the starting grid?

It's an Aston Martin DB2/4.  :)

I meant this car at the rear of this grid

Its called a Bentley R type 'Goode' Special dating from 1954 I recall. Rather large and I think it usually lives (lived?) in the USA.. I didn't see it in the race at all but it was nearby in the paddock being looked after by JD Classics for the owner/driver I think.
Not my cup of tea at all although apparently it was built in the 50's.

http://www.goodwood.co.uk/members-meeting/news-and-coverage/articles/bentley-r-type-gooda-special.aspx

http://www.jdclassics.co.uk/showrooms/Bentley-Gooda-Special/6810.htm

http://fabwheelsdigest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/1954-bentley-r-type-gooda-special-coupe.html

I've just blown the photo up and it looks like a Bentley Version of a RR Silver Cloud, but I'm not that way up on RR's and Bentleys.

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This is it. Ugly or what?

Yep!!!! Still tthink it's Bentley based but my apologies to the RR Silver Cloud after seeing this photo ::)
Brian
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I think Peter's photo is at Woodcote on the first lap after the restart when I was being extra cautious about cold tyres. By the end of the race I had overtaken the red Alfa, the blue Jowett and the gunmetal grey Frazer Nash and the Turner leading the group in the photo had pulled off.
The Bentley Special doesn't float my boat at all.

Correct. Well remembered. You were just out of shot here.

Don't know how I missed this post but what a great set of photos of what looked like a fantastic day. Three things I miss about the UK - fish and chips, early drive to Goodwood on a glorious day, English pub on a summers evening. In fact I used to combine all three, Goodwood, a drink in the Spread Eagle at Midhurst (pricey but where teams would stay in the 50's and a Hawthorn favourite), then a visit to the chippy in the main street. The photos bring it all back. At the risk of being blackballed from the Lancia club my 'take home' would be the Porsche Abarth in the pits. The body is a work of art.

http://www.hshotels.co.uk/spread-eagle-hotel-and-spa

That does look nice...  Here's my regular stop on the way down:

http://toatcafe.wordpress.com/about/

Don't get too excited - those pictures flatter.

David

That looks a good old cafe David. Like the one at the Devils Punch Bowl used to be before the National Trust took over. I remember having a drink in the Spread Eagle with my wife and we were sitting listening to Lady Cowdray and some old colonel type as they spoke about various royal visitors. Her favourite was Princess Anne as she asked for an ironing board straight away and did all her own ironing etc. It made us laugh because one minute we were rubbing shoulders with the gentry, five minutes later we were sitting in the Fulvia in a car park scoffing cod and chips. Happy days.

The Toat is ridiculously down at heal for that area - all miss matched furniture and peeling paint - but the generic "Full English" is up to snuff and its "nearly there".  The one thing that does recommend it is a HUGE car park for anyone heading down with a trailer.  You'd never have to reverse...

For an evening meal in the Goodwood area we use the Royal Oak pub in East Lavant just down the road from the circuit. Not cheap but good service, interesting food and always busy and IMHO you get what you play for there. Also used by many well known drivers and the car park can be interesting..
Chris

Am still buzzing from this.  Here's some more of the photos and a couple of reports.

http://www.retro-speed.co.uk/gallery.asp?ip=galleries&gid=galleries&pid=11881
http://www.retro-speed.co.uk/showreports.asp?art=11875
http://www.retro-speed.co.uk/showreports.asp?art=11874

For myself I pulled my finger out and got something in the post to Jack.

David

Spot the leader.