eMsta Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 nice cars! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
emts Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 So I was lucky enough to get a chance to go to the Goodwood Festival of speed this year. For those of you that's don;t know it, basiclly they invite the owners of lots of classic race cars (as well as modern ones) as well as all the current supercar manufactures to bring their cars along for a show and to thrash them up the hill climb stage: Goodwood website so lots of pretty metal ranging from old school F1 through to Zonda/Veyron and even a Holden Commodore and R35 Spec V. plus a few notable drivers, Lewis hamilton, Sir Stirling moss, (in a Merc SLR Stirling moss ed) Jenson Button, Sebastian Loeb, and even a few nascar drivers better yet you can get very up close and personal to the cars in the pits. really a car event for true car enthusiasts, and no drunken jobs being idiots like you would get here anyhow I took a "few" pics if your interested My Goodwood pics and some tasty samples: Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4739759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thommo Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 (edited) lucky man... one of my dreams to make it there one day, have a dvd from a couple of years ago looks amazing. Edited July 29, 2009 by thommo Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4739769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adznight Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Man, so gotta go to this one day! I just can't get over the sheer amount of quality cars there! And so much history. Tell us more about it, cost, how good was the viewing, how long does it run for, what's the format etc. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4739789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopeyz Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Droool! so many nice cars! Ur so lucky! Wish i was o/s to see such amazing cars. A "few" pic? more please! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4739886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emts Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 the link in the first post gets you to all the pics, 300-400ish! http://picasaweb.google.com.au/mfsull/Goodwood# Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4739944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(OO)SKYLINE(OO) Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Holy shit! That Bugatti Veyron with the mirror paint job looks nice. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4740030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGE Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Yep, i just filled the cup. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4741074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R31Nismoid Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Holy shit martin... awesome Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4741600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssxRicho Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 yeh yeh rub it in. the paddock is amazing. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4741609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LotusGTR Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 I've been to this many moons ago and can highly recommend. Stand out for me was the McLaren F1 (very new at the time) getting off the line on the hill climb. Most incredible induction noise I've ever heard. Very loud and very angry. Pity it's in the middle of nowhere in England...... Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4741634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emts Posted July 30, 2009 Author Share Posted July 30, 2009 Man, so gotta go to this one day! I just can't get over the sheer amount of quality cars there! And so much history. Tell us more about it, cost, how good was the viewing, how long does it run for, what's the format etc. so it was about a 1.5 hour drive from heathrow, (in a 1.6 focus) with free parking. general entry was 48 pounds, (roughly 100$) this must be purchased in advance no tickets at the gate. that gets you entry to the pits, the supercar paddock, and both the hill climb and the Forrest stages, (basically everything but the grand stand and corp tents) there were 350 cars/bikes there with a combined value of 275 million Pounds, and they were all racing! It's a 3 day event, and every car/bike gets 2 runs a day each in their class, eg pre war F1, modern F1, Le Mans, supercar, bikes, EV. plus displays from the red arrows. and you could just wander up to any point of the track and there would rarely be more than 1 or 2 deep spectators. other than in a few places like the start line. Plus there was a retail area for lots of aftermarket things, model cars, plus all the manufactures. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4741749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunky_monkey Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 That's awesome, great pics too mate. Now that Le Mans has been ticked off my list, it's the Nurburgring 24hr, Monte Carlo/Finland/Gemany WRC rounds and Goodwood left of the majors! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/281134-goodwood-festival-of-speed/#findComment-4741823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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