Goodwood Festival of Speed, Friday - 11th July
Another well organised Festival and even the weather was good.
The cars, as ever, were superb, a great mixture and loads to see but it was difficult to get clear pictures
as there were so many people there but I did my best.
It took two and a half hours to get there, leaving at 8am, a lot of queing traffic once we left the A286 but as the tickets
were free and I was being transported in luxury I can't really complain I suppose!!
This was only the thrid time I'd been to the Festival and I must admit to being totally spoilt before as I'd gone
with Dad as General Motors VIP guests, so no queuing and parking actually at Goodwood House so I was quite surprised to see
the field (especially the incline of the slope - please don't rain!!) that we had to park in. Luckily the rain did hold
off and we escaped without incident but it did take three and a half hours to get home, blooming M25!!
There was the usual collection of fantastic cars and I especially enjoyed the Cartier selection and I must admit I kept
away from most of the single-seaters just because there were so many people. I was surprised with the selection of Touring
Cars to mark the BTCCs 50th anniversary as there were certainly a few that would not qualify for being ex-Touring cars and
a few that have been very modifed since; surely there are proper original cars around??
I made it up the hill to see the rally stage and the older cars were superb, really being taken by the scruff of the
neck by the drivers. Unfortunately I didn't make it to the rallycar paddock though so I'll save that for the
next visit.
I had a wander round the stalls too and there were some great bargains to
be had but nothing caught my eye this year round so I kept my hand in my pocket, well, I did buy a mdel Jaguar D-Type and
Lola T70 MkIII but otherwise I was well behaved.
Below is a small selction of photos of a few of the cars that caught my eye. As per usual there were
hundreds of cars there but these were the ones I liked and I've purposely not "fully" captioned them all due to some
possibly having discrepancies so I hope you enjoy them.
