Members' Meeting

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by piekey

Ok Gordon
When you do come out of the cave ? Do you now do 90 days in Spain & 90 back in uk ? & so on, or do the authorities now realise they do need tourism & turn a blind eye ?

The whole thing is a complete balls up, although they have started stamping passports on arrival in Spain they do not stamp them on departure or arrival back in the UK so how does anyone know the score , however I "suppose" we are all on big brother computers ? I have no idea WTF is going on at the moment.
The thing is that the UK has never been in the Schengen open border zone so in reality it's always been like it but never implemented.
There always has been and still are people living under the radar in EU countries also in the UK with the population growing every week with the daily boat trips across the channel !

[Malcolm Smith]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Yup, I got up nice and early this morning expecting to be able to gorge myself on Goodwood racing this weekend. I am beyond disappointed!

Hi, you can watch free, it’s been working since 10am.
Go to timetable page, click view live.
Under the ‘offer’ is a link to “no thanks, start free stream now”.
Click there and it displays coverage - see attachments.
BEFORE you do this, and each time you leave site
and try to rejoin, you may have to clear browsing
history - I did.

[Peter Mallett]

Good to chat with Delta, although very wet start to the day. GM Trophy qualifying was interesting, a Mustang hit the barriers on Lavant bringing out a red flag. Thus the day is still delayed.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Smith

Hi, you can watch free, it’s been working since 10am.
Go to timetable page, click view live.
Under the ‘offer’ is a link to “no thanks, start free stream now”.
Click there and it displays coverage - see attachments.
BEFORE you do this, and each time you leave site
and try to rejoin, you may have to clear browsing
history - I did.

Brilliant. Thanks a lot.Worked a treat, even downunder.

[gary396]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Smith

Hi, you can watch free, it’s been working since 10am.
Go to timetable page, click view live.
Under the ‘offer’ is a link to “no thanks, start free stream now”.
Click there and it displays coverage - see attachments.
BEFORE you do this, and each time you leave site
and try to rejoin, you may have to clear browsing
history - I did.

Many thanks Malcolm, just checked this page in time to watch the first race. Ideal!

[Aysedasi]

Fabulous stuff right now!

[john ruston]

Will be there in morning seeing what happens to fleet
Not expecting miracles just hoping for dry weather

[justracing]

Got pretty wet out the back this morning but worth every minute watching Sam Tordoff "float" the monstrous Falcon through Fordwater and Nick Swift's incredible qualifying performance, not so fortunate in his race however. The GM races were superb with battles throughout, so disappointing seeing Pirro somersault the huge Mercury thereafter the battle of the big bangers in the Pierpoint cup turned into a charade with the safety car. Skipped the rally cars in favour of a return home to refuel for tomorrow however thinner crowds compared to the Revival made the day very enjoyable and btw the tractor transport does exist for the MM. Couldn't find Peter, Delta or any other tenths crew but will seek out tomorrow. Good luck to all for Sunday's racing.

[Mike Crow]

It was a splendid day. Its hard to complain about the showers when you are taking shelter between a pair of priceless Ferraris or in a row of Fraser Nashes. You have to admire Goodwoods attention to detail. They erect a strong steel mesh fence around the track with solid metal posts and then clad it all in timber so it still looks correct. Back tomorrow and will follow justracing up to St Mary’s. My favourite Goodwood memory is of Pete Hardiman dancing the DBR1 through there, teetering on the brink lap after lap. Pure genius

[delta]

Good to meet you today Mike . I’ve just got back home after taking two fuel tanks to work and weld up . Not from my Triplett of 500 . Back
Tomorrow at 8am
.sunshine tomorrow . ?

[Aysedasi]

What time does the action kick off tomorrow?

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Malcolm Smith

Hi, you can watch free, it’s been working since 10am.

Thanks for this, Malcolm. I did manage to get the stream, but unfortunately every time that I clicked on the full screen button, the picture came up but it just went into buffering. Really frustrating, no matter how many times that I tried, especially as my download speed is always over 100 mbps so in theory it wasn't a problem at my end.

[Anyopenroad]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

What time does the action kick off tomorrow?

Rally Sprint from 8 to just after 9. Track action starts at 0930.

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Anyopenroad

Rally Sprint from 8 to just after 9. Track action starts at 0930.

Thanks for that. I can get the free stream on my pc, but my internet equipped TV absolutely refuses to open the free link. Quite a bit of buffering too.

[Peter Mallett]

Big fire at the end of the Arundel Cup race.

[Anyopenroad]

I'm in several minds about the Rally Sprint.

I love that Goodwood keep trying new things. I love the idea of rally cars being thrown around Goodwood. As usual there were some absolute gems (cars and drivers) in the field.

However...

...the night running didn't really work: neither spectators nor drivers could see very much
...it's only possible to see part of the course at any one moment and when each car gets 2 x ~70sec runs each session, that's not enough time to move to a different vantage point
...I get quality over quantity, but 19 cars isn't enough, especially when 3 of them break on the first run
...replicas are fine, we don't need all originals
...the non-track section was too narrow and fiddly
...too much waiting around (though at least this makes it an authentic rally experience!) for officials to drive up and down fretting about who-knows-what

I don't have answers to these dilemmas. I did enjoy it, but I suspect I would have enjoyed it a lot more on TV than live.

[justracing]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Big fire at the end of the Arundel Cup race.

I believe it was soon dealt with no major damage. The race was fantastic, those super rear engined formula juniors are exquisite, pure and simple, no horrid aero appendages. The whole weekend was superb entertainment, top drivers in some fabulous cars at a very special circuit. Skipped all the rally stuff, just an event fiiler it seems, I'm quite happy to attend a rally event but personally it was superfluous.

[midgetman]

I did manage to catch some of Sunday's live stream but only the stuff I enjoy least and I fell asleep. Although a couple of lunchtime pints of old and filthy may have assisted that.

Good coverage but when I woke up it was all finished I found some races from earlier in the weekend which showed people were trying as hard as ever, a fine Capri/Camaro dice was a highlight.



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[Aysedasi]

I watched most of yesterday's races and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a pain being chucked out and having to go back into the free stream every half hour or so....

[delta]

I really enjoyed the weekend . The 500 people are special and there is a great friendship with them . The start was full on it got delayed so we had to lug out the starters and jacks back out on the grid . Then we could not start one of our cars so got pushed into pit Lane . Got him going but he shot out to join the race to early and then got two points on his licence . Two out of team Delta cars failed . Chain broke on one then fuel pump on the other . All three drivers were still happy . For us it was usual nightmare loading and getting home . 1 am this morning . Hey Ho

[Aysedasi]

Those 500s are terrific fun to watch.

[john ruston]

It’s so much easier to have cars at MM rather than revival
Still I have to admit both are superb events for the Historic Racing Industry and the punters.

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Those 500s are terrific fun to watch.

You should have seen them in their heyday, imagine 30 cars streaming into Paddock Hill at Brands. They make a great noise, and look good, and you can see the drivers working. For me there has never been better racing. One of my favourite events was the 100 miles race run at Silverstone each year, at entry costing about 2/6d it was the best half-crown's worth you could get.
Not the MM, but.

[Peter Mallett]

I'm still editing my pictures but here's a few from Saturday

[Malcolm Smith]

Great photos, Peter, I liked the 70s cars best on the live stream. Especially keen to see photos of Escort #57 and Fiesta #61, drivers who race in Scottish Classics.