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F1 race trucks at Goodwood |
If you live in the UK, take some time out on the 12-14th July and make your way to Goodwood. If I were to sit down and plan my perfect event, I really don’t think
I could come up with something better than the Goodwood Festival of Speed. It has
everything- cars, motorcycles and a huge variety of old cars, a chance to get up close with the cars and you may see some being tinkered with by men in white overalls, an
array of classic aircraft, plenty of live music to listen to and it,s an ideal
chance to wear tweed and a proper hat. Count me in!
To accompany the good music, great food, there are some fantastic displays of the latest
creations and rally cars kicking up more dust than you’ve ever seen. As well as the many invited drivers there will be cars and motorcycles from each of
the world's major motor sport disciplines, past and present, including
championship winning cars from Formula 1, Indycar, the World Rally
Championship, Superbikes, NASCAR, World Sports Cars and Touring Cars.
This year, Goodwood plans to recapture many of the outstanding Festival of
Speed moments from the 1993-2012 era, with some great cars from the
USA and elsewhere around the world. Their owners have promised that they will bring them to Goodwood for a not to be missed return to the UK, And to complement the cars, some famous car/driver
pairings will also be reunited. Organisers say they hope to show off the newly-completed and running
Bloodhound Land Speed Record car on display just days before its trip to
South Africa for the land speed record attempt. The Bloodhound car is powered by a Eurojet EJ200 engine, as used in the
Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, plus a Falcon hybrid rocket. A Cosworth CA
2010 Formula 1 motor pumps fuel to the rocket and provides power to the
car’s electrical and hydraulic systems. This is the car that I really want to see!!!
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I’ll briefly summarise the event just in case anyone reading this
isn’t aware of why and where this festival is held. It takes place at the Goodwood
Circuit in West Sussex, which ranked alongside Silverstone and Brands
Hatch as one of the UK’s premier international motorsports venues in the
post-war years. In the late 1960s the owner of the circuit, Lord March,
declined to provide the famously fast circuit with the chicanes that
the FIA required and so the track fell into disuse. The current Lord
March carried out a restoration of the circuit in the mid-1990s and
since 1998 Goodwood as relived its glory years at the Revival. With the
track and its associated structures perfectly restored to their 1960s
appearance dozens of period racing and sports cars are gathered there to
re-enact a vanished era of motorsport when it was glamorous rather than
rampantly commercial.
As it looks like I will have some time off before going to Brazil, I intend to catch up with some old Truckie friends and have my eardrums rattled by some fantastic machines and soak up the atmosphere from past and present. Buy your tickets online and find out more about Goodwood Festival of Speed here:
http://www.goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed/welcome.aspx