Goodwood Revival 16-18 September 2011

Once more, the bucket list will have to wait until next year for I was hoping to scratch off attending the Goodwood Revival this Friday, September 16. As with it's famous sister event, the Festival Of Speed, I had arranged to stay at the same lovely turn-of-the century cottage in Yapton but unfortunately I had to cancel the entire trip. The company would have been great and the experience once in a life time; sacrifices are meant to hurt and this one does.
Allow me to show you what I am going to miss and why if you like this sort of thing, you should try to visit.

Back in the nineteen nineties the Earl of March wanted to bring back motor racing to the Goodwood estate -  a location steeped in British motor racing history. Unlike the FOS, the Revival literally brings everything that has to do with that early motoring period back to life.



Quoting from their brochure:" The Revival really is a magical step back in time, a unique chance to revel in the glamour and allure of motor racing in the romantic time capsule of the golden era of motor racing at one of the world's most authentic circuits. It is he world's most popular historic motor race meeting and the only event of its kind to be staged entirely in the nostalgic time capsule of the 1940s, 50s and 60s that relives the glory days of Goodwood Motor Circuit. Furthermore, it offers visitors the opportunity to leave the "modern world" behind and join motor sport luminaries including Sir Stirling Moss, Richard Attwood, John Surtees and Derek Bell in an unabashed celebration of flat-out wheel-to-wheel racing around a classic racetrack, untouched by the modern world."

This year tribute is paid to Juan Manuel Fangio, arguably one of the greatest drivers of all time, on the centenary of his birth and 60th anniversary of him winning the first of his five World Championships in F1. Although Fangio never won at Goodwood, his best result was a second place with a BRM V16 P15 on September 26, 1953, the event organizers will bring more than 25 of the famous cars that he drove over the course of his career. Some significant cars that form part of this tribute are the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR and W196s, his Alfa Romeo Tipo 158/9 "Alfetta", Ferrari 860 Monza, Gordini type 15s and 16, Maserati 250F, 300S and 450S, and as if these were not enough, the Fundacion Museo Fangio in Argentina are shipping two of his earliest racing cars to be present at the event, his famous 1939 Chevrolet Coupe TC and the 1947 Volpi Chevrolet "La Petisa".

For more information, please visit http://www.goodwood.co.uk/home.aspx