Goodwood Festival of Speed England - fullscale

[V12]

Someone ever had been at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England or plan to visit? Since I discovered this at the internet I want visiting. It seems there are all the interesting racecars of past and now including CanAm and Group-C, my favourites. Fullscale cars it is.

[Groomi]

Hi There,
Yeah, I've been a few times - probably the last time was about five years ago. It really is amazing, the variety of cars, the atmosphere and the fact you can stroll through the paddock talking to the drivers, mechanics and owners just makes it a really special day. Mind you, the reason I haven't been back there since is because it was getting so busy you really needed to go for two days to see everything properly, plus the Formula 1 teams were starting to take over the paddock - and they don't do chatting. No idea if it continued down that route or has gone back to how it used to be.

If you're making a special trip, then it might be worth Googling for the other awesome Goodwood event - The Goodwood Revival. That is based at the Goodwood circuit, rather than Lord March's driveway and is by all accounts a magical event albeit historic cars (and everything else) only, so not quite the same variety. I keep promising myself I'll go to it each year, but haven't yet...

Whichever you choose, have fun and take loads of pics for us!

[slotcarrod]

I can only wish! This is one of the all time events on my bucket list! That and do some laps on Nurburgring as well as see 24 Hours of Le Mans... Some day maybe!

[Groomi]

I can only wish! This is one of the all time events on my bucket list! That and do some laps on Nurburgring as well as see 24 Hours of Le Mans... Some day maybe!

>feeling smug<

So living in the UK has proved to be an advantage for something at least!

[mrlexan]

I can only wish! This is one of the all time events on my bucket list! That and do some laps on Nurburgring as well as see 24 Hours of Le Mans... Some day maybe!

X2! I've got one of the 3, went to Le Mans in 2002. Awesome doesn't do it justice. Need to put a Pikes Peak (though it's not the same now that it's paved) and a MINT 400 on that list.

[slotcarrod]

This is another one I would like to go to: http://www.mazdaraceway.com/rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion

A little closer and within my budget!

[mrlexan]

This is another one I would like to go to: http://www.mazdaraceway.com/rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion

A little closer and within my budget!

Yep, another good one. I went in 2003 for the Ford 100 year reunion. Again, AWESOME! Any year would be good to go to.

[V12]

Whichever you choose, have fun and take loads of pics for us!:)

Not sure if I will make it to Goodwood as I still have to find someone joining me on the trip there. Otherwise too expensive.
But maybe you will like pictures of an exhibition on Porsche Le Mans cars for supporting their new project. Not sure where to post full-scale race car pics so I think this forum might be OK. All cars are owned by the Porsche factory museum, I was told they have about 500 historic race cars which are shown at their museum and abroad. Sometimes they are moved at a race track also. Unfortunately my favourite Porsche race car the 917K was not shown but some others.

Porsche 962 Le Mans GT (1994)

[V12]

917/20 Coupe (1971)
The 917/20 was a mix of short and long version and just one car of this kind was built. But had a DNF at Le Mans.

[V12]

911 GT1 (1998)

[GoMachV]

I love the Tecnacraft wheels on the 962

Beautiful cars there!

[V12]

718 W-RS Spyder (1962)

[V12]

I love the Tecnacraft wheels on the 962

Beautiful cars there!

Were the Tecnacraft wheels made by BBS also?

[Peakey]

My cousin has been to goodwood a few times and always says I should go with him but with two young kids it's a bit hard many this year as I've not been to a good car show in years.

[phoenix]

I can only recommend to go there ! Went there 3 times so far, always great !