Goodwood Festival of Speed this year

[Rache]

Can anyone mail me details of the Festival of Speed, all I know is that it's in June. Have tried to find an up to date website but no luck, when is it how much is it etc etc??

Reply via e-mail please! Ta

[Rache]

Well Geez guys, sorry I offended but I was going to store any e-mails I got so I'd have the details handy....and I also thought the Historic Racing forum would be the best one to post under, the Trackside one didn't even cross my mind.

Thanx for the info anyways *sniff snurfle* I'll go now......

[Rache]

Come guys, helllp meeeee there must be someone out there who knows something???!!!

[fatbloke]

Maybe everyone thought that someone else had replied due to your request to respond via email ? That's one of the reasons that it's not a good idea to ask that - another is that it is plain rude to the people here.

In any case, try the Trackside forum - that's what it's for...

[Peter Mallett]

A little harsh there large chap.

The Trackside is indeed the best place but I was awaiting the issue of the next Classic Cars mag which will provide Rache with all the answers she needs.

However, I think its over the weekend of the 23 June.

[Andy H]

The wise man says he posts his questions in the Trackside forum will get an answer more promptly.

The date is 23rd June as stated above and all your details for tickets etc. can be found on http://www.goodwood.co.uk

[TimD]

Agreed - a little fierce, but the point is made.

I am a member of the Goodwood Road Racing Club, but this year's membership and booking bumf has presently gone astray in one of the piles of magazines and printouts that I call a study.

I have been looking for it - honest - but without anything to the contrary, I was kind of assuming that someone else would have come up with the goods by now.

If and when I turn up the details, I'll put 'em here.

[TimD]

And in "Trackside"!

[Peter Mallett]

No no Rache.

Stay and comment about some of the other posts here.

Otherwise we will be offended.

BTW. I could have moved this to Trackside but I thought I'd await the reaction.

[Andy H]

Couldn't agree more, hang about and visit Trackside regularly.

As moderator I personally ensure we have only the most sophisticated and intelligent punters there

Perhaps I should have added a smilie for you Rache - seems to work for the Malletman...

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[Peter Mallett]

Er Andy. Where is that exactly?

[Andy H]

Not being sophisticated or intelligent it is no suprise you don't know



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[TimD]

Well, being sophostik...

...sphisostic...

...sppotirik...

...sparticulated...

...clever,

I thought I'd have another go at finding the booking details which the GRRC sent me.

They were located in a very intelligent place - underneath the early 1992 Autosports, 35 assorted mid 1980s car brochures, an unmade metal model of a Ferrari 340 Mexico, and 3 videos of the 1981 F1 season.

So, especially for Rache, and anyone else who wanted the Festival of Speed info, here it is.

Dates: 23rd-25th June 2000

Prices:
Day.......... Entrance fee .... Grandstand
Friday 23rd.. £9.00............ £6.00
Saturday 24th £16.00........... £12.00
Sunday 25th.. £27.00........... £17.00

Weekender.... £42.00........... £30.00

Can be booked from:

Booking office
Goodwood House
Goodwood
Chichester
West Sussex
PO18 0PX

Telephone 0870 442 0822


Hope this helps! You've no idea what I went through to find them.

[Graham]

All hail Tim. Cheers.

Anyway :

(a) remembered that book bloke's website address yet?

(b) does ANYONE know if that lovely XJ13 will be at FoS this year?

[Rache]

Thanx for the info guys, now one more question - which is the best event to go to, the June one or the September one. Is the June one on the hillclimb circuit and the Sept one on the racing circuit??

And if you don't buy grandstand tickets (£30/weekend eeeek) do you get a rubbish view? Do the same cars go to both events or is there a bit of variation?

Excuse my ignorance.....

[TimD]

I am extraordinarily biased, but I haven't yet been to the Festival hillclimb, but the Circuit Revival has given me without doubt six of the most joyful days of my entire life.

Not that I'm biased.

The cars will be pretty different at the two events.

The hillclimb takes a theme, and will pursue it through racing history. That means you can have machines as diverse as a turn of the century dinosaur heading up the hill, and five minutes later someone like Nick Heidfeld doing the same with the latest McLaren.

Perhaps the personalities to spot are a little more diverse, too. The rally cars and their drivers come out, and I know that people such as Jody Scheckter, who is on record as not wanting to get involved in historic racing, is prepared to come out once in a while and demonstrate a car.

Hopefully some other clever person will be able to give a more specific idea of what's on offer this year. Lord March does try to top his efforts every year, and last year was by all accounts a bit special.

The Revival Meeting, is the most extraordinary step back in time. Everything has been carefully done to give a real feel of motor racing as it was in the late 1950s and early 1960s. My father, who had previously been to Goodwood in 1964, was able to vouch for the fact that EVERYTHING was as it should be.

The cars are exclusively those which would have legitimately raced between 1948 and 1966. While there will be crossover in the entries for the two events, there is no chance of any vehicle older or younger taking part on the circuit.

Even some of the emergency vehicles and recovery trucks are in keeping with the period!

Visitors to the Circuit are strongly encouraged to dress in keeping with the period. That means that the world gets treated to the sight of me in tweeds and a felt trilby hat! And a Bentley club tie, of course.

As to spectating, I have never felt the need for a grandstand ticket at the circuit. I understand from people who have been to the hillclimb that a good view of the hill is sometimes quite a struggle, but the Circuit is so filled with excellent spectating opportunities that I would almost feel stifled by sitting in one fixed spot.

What I have spent money on in the past, is the vital club membership which entitles you to apply for paddock passes. The Goodwood paddock is restricted in space, and would be very difficult to marshal if all and sundry were permitted entry, but the privileged access is very, very expensive.

On the other hand, where else do you get the opportunity of standing shoulder to shoulder with Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jack Brabham, Damon Hill, Barry Sheene, Derek Bell, Jochen Mass, Phil Hill, Carroll Shelby, Murray Walker, Rowan Atkinson, Jackie Oliver, Danny Sullivan and Nick Mason of an afternoon?

I was even chatting with the chief mechanic of a Ferrari last year, and Tony Jardine hustled past, apologising as he did so!

Hope some of this helps.

[TimD]

Sorry, just realised I missed a vital part of the question.

Yes, June is the Hillclimb event,

September is the Circuit Revival.

Hopefully both will have better weather than last year - although it would take more than last year's teensy little torrential downpour to spoil September for me!

[Andy H]

This thread has quite a lot of useful advice for any bods planning to visit Goodwood - any chance one of the nice moderators can duplicate it into the Trackside forum please.

Many Thanks
Andy H

[Peter Mallett]

OK. Here goes!!!!

Hmmm. Seems I can only close it and move it. (Or delete but we don't want that). Rache. Just because this is closed don't stay away. We've got some pretty intelligent folks who are more than happy to answer any historic or classic racing questions.

BTW. If you're near Mallory on Monday 29th May come and see the bARC Classic Package. Some of the saloons and Touring Cars will be at Goodwood in September.;( (Plug).

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