Goodwood, WOW

2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is one event that I HAVE to go to at least once in my life. There is such a wide diversity of cars, and watching some of the best cars and drivers in the wold fly up the "track" has got to be amazing.

Only matched and perhaps exceeded by the Goodwood Revival, which I attended a few years ago. I don't know how to describe it well, but you kind of walk around the whole day with this odd tingle going on in your head. Something like the tingle you get in your pants when looking at the early Playboy spreads of Pamela Anderson.

We've had couple of club members go and both just raved about the event.

One of the guys was there during the 9/11 attacks. He said the response from the locals was overwhelming.

It's flat wonderful. The spectators are part of the show, because at some point you realize that just about everyone around you is speaking articulately and intelligently about every car they see, and absolutely oozing knowledge. And what cars! You basically see automotive history in motion. Or you can get right up on top of the cars--literally--as you wander through the pits. Best of all is the rally course at the top of the hill--a miniature course that still gives the full show of muscle bursting out of the woods, sliding through the dirt turns, and shooting past you back into the woods.

Never mind the bacon sandwiches....

It's one of my favorite places/events/trips ever. If you get a chance, even half a chance, to go--take it.

Margie

You know the real bummber, I lived and worked in Worthing which is less than 20 miles from Chichester (where Goodwood is located). I used to go and marshel at the track and I never went ot the festival of speed!! I always thought 'next year'. This is before it was the massive international event it is now. Then in 94 I moved to America for 6-12 months..... The rest is history and I'm here to stay.

I -- MUST-- DO--THIS!

Adrian_Thompson wrote: You know the real bummber, I lived and worked in Worthing which is less than 20 miles from Chichester (where Goodwood is located). I used to go and marshel at the track and I never went ot the festival of speed!! I always thought 'next year'. This is before it was the massive international event it is now. Then in 94 I moved to America for 6-12 months..... The rest is history and I'm here to stay.

Huh. I did a semester in Arundel back in college. Spent some time in Chichester without even the foggiest idea there was such an event nearby (all I knew of in Chichester was the Ale Fest). Just another clueless Yank at the time.

Dashpot wrote: Huh. I did a semester in Arundel back in college. Spent some time in Chichester without even the foggiest idea there was such an event nearby (all I knew of in Chichester was the Ale Fest). Just another clueless Yank at the time.

Beutiful place, lucky you

I watched the Revival documentary on HDTheater, and everyone that goes dresses the part by wearing clothes from the same period as the cars. They even had actors in recreated garages with old parts and old advertisements and some showing "lost arts" in auto mechanics.