Goodwood Today - pics

Roadrunner · Post by **Roadrunner** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:00 pm

Lots of wonderful kit at Goodwood Festival of Speed today, including RSRs & 917s.

All my pics are on my sites :

http://bonneville-speed-week.smugmug.com/

www.fluidimages.co.uk

hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:22 am

love the photos... would have loved to have gone ( & its my Birthday too

) but my Brother in Law is getting married.

pic 77 is getting all the attention though

Roadrunner · Post by **Roadrunner** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:29 am

hot66 wrote:love the photos... would have loved to have gone ( & its my Birthday too ) but my Brother in Law is getting married.

pic 77 is getting all the attention though

I'm assuming thats the 'Sharon Stone moment' ?

Post by **Bootsy** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:30 pm

hot66 wrote:pic 77 is getting all the attention though

and mine - I'm off for a cold shower

cubist · Post by **cubist** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:24 pm

Which reminds me... suddenly it starts raining after a gorgeous sunny week and what do we see? Snail-trails everywhere

It's pic 60 that gets my vinyl soggy

Roadrunner · Post by **Roadrunner** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:49 pm

cubist wrote:Which reminds me... suddenly it starts raining after a gorgeous sunny week and what do we see? Snail-trails everywhere

It's pic 60 that gets my vinyl soggy

Did anyone else go ? I suspect that'll be the last year I go. I've never missed one, and every year it gets steadily more commercialised. Now its big business, and most people are there on corporate freebies or to get a brief glimpse of a cheesy F1 burnout. Not for me, rant over.

Gary71 · Post by **Gary71** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:54 pm

They even canned the soapbox racing this year on some flimsy safety related whim....

I looked after the Prodrive leaning soapbox a couple of years ago, a great occasion, our driver only crashed at 60mph, can't see what they were worrying about!

(you'll have to guess which one is me!)

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 1:29 pm

Excellent pics, esp RSR & 917. I rarely miss a year and also went yesterday. Had a great day but inevitably don't like the crowds either. However, it was never going to stay as an enthusiast only event like the first couple of years and full credit to Lord March for making it a commercial success that allows it to continue. It's well organised and they've clearly reinvested heavily to make it work. I'd rather it was like this than fizzling out for financial reasons. In the end I prefer the Revival (for the racing) but other than these events where else can you see so many cars like these in one place and being used for their true purpose?

By the way, I watched the downhill racers last year from Pheasantry and the wind blowing up the hill made it potentially lethal as they made that turn, resulting in no Soapbox challenge this year. Interesting to see/hear the Prodrive stuff. Good project to have worked on I'm sure. I can't believe that any of those pro teams stuck to the under £1000 budget rule. Anyway, let's hope GRRC bring it back at some stage.

nickT · Post by **nickT** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:32 pm

The apprentice soapbox race was held last week in Herefordshire, our boys from Prodrive won their class and 4th overall and took best turned out team !
NickT.