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Yesterday my family and I went to the Goodwood Revival Festival, widely accepted as the best historc motorsport event on the planet.

http://www.racelegends.com/images/Ne...od_circuit.jpg

http://www.goodwood.co.uk/revival/

http://media.goodwood.co.uk/revival/...eting_2007.pdf

The goodwood motorcircuit is on the perimiter road of the old WW2 RAF airfield, and was active from 1948 to 1966. It re-opened in 1997.

http://www.experiencemore.co.uk/imag...od-circuit.gif

Because of its aero herritage, they bring in a load of warbirds every year too!

http://i.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/84...MGP0404web.jpg
Spitfire

http://k43.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/...MGP0909web.jpg
Bearcat

http://i.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/84...MGP0627web.jpg
Lancaster

http://k43.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/...MGP0749web.jpg
Mustang

They also had cars:

http://i.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/84...MGP0426web.jpg
Mustang

http://k53.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/...MGP0671web.jpg
Jaguar

http://i.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/84...MGP1125web.jpg
ISO

Sadly the ISO had a rather stunning crash.

http://k43.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/...MGP1127web.jpg

But the driver (a very experienced professional driver called Martin Stretton) was stretchered out with only a broken elbow!

http://k53.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/...MGP1129web.jpg

http://i.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/84...MGP1139web.jpg

:(

The whole event has a 40s and 50s theme, and costume is actively encouraged.

http://k43.pbase.com/o6/91/460891/1/...MGP1008web.jpg

The Holey Grail of vintage racing......will never get to go....hope to get to Montery some day............great links and pics!!!

xoxoxoo

I have the great fortune to live within a 1 hour drive.

Next year we're planning on going to the Festival of Speed (google it). A few years ago I went there and was bumped into by Phil Hill and troden on by Stirling Moss.

Moss is bloody short!

I would love to see that someday. Growing up as an ardent road racing fan in the '50's and '60's, even though I was in the U.S., Goodwood was very significant to me.

Love to go sometime. Its usually covered on Speed TV, i believe.

wow, this track looks pretty cool. I wish I knew about it when I was in England back in May, I was already in London, I could have checked out this track