I decided to trawl through more unposted Goodwood pics to keep this alive, before delving into the more distant past.
ERC that Bentley ..
" MXS682 "Is that the car that was owned by Racer Woolf Barnato -Body by Gurney - Nutting, the one that raced the Blue Train in the 1930's ??.
Back to Ambergate and the Haynes Museum. At the Ambergate museum in Derbyshire, you can book and pay and actually drive some of the exhibits, which are generally family cars - but all British built.
The two ex Merit/SMER kits in real life!
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Grab a saloon. Slap on a fatter wheels and tyres; lower it; stick on some race numbers and you have a car that looks like a racer. Breathe on the engine and mechanicals and you actually have a racer.
* Whoops, the pic is not from 2021.
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Final batch from Goodwood - for now anyway! Hope you didn't get too bored with them. Not much on the horizon, so I may have to do some more scanning of old stuff - or take a break.
Friday highlight was being able to take photographs from the Chicane grandstand. (No access on my roving stand ticket ticket possible Saturday or Sunday). The stewards kept me away from the fence, so 99% of the chicane pics were indeed from the grandstand.
I couldn't finish Goodwood without a massive thank you to Tim Hill of HRC for his assistance and my poor long suffering wife, who was stuck on her own in Auckland under lockdown, scared that I'd catch covid whilst away, and that I'd be stranded in the UK, unable to get back and into an MIQ spot. MIQ for two weeks and an additional $3,100 was something I could have done without and having to fly straight through in both directions, for the first time ever, wasn't my first choice either.
Some access to the paddock is restricted to paddock pass holders where the dress code applies. This area was accessible to all.
Final two pics represent what made the weekend so special for me. "The Owlet", as mentioned before was a real hoot. Sounded fantastic, driven with great verve and humbled far more expensive machinery, in the hands of Patrick Blakeney-Edwards particularly, but also Mini ace, Nick Swift. Every lap in the dry practice or the wet race had me grinning from ear to ear. I don't think that has ever happened before - other than 'Skidmark' Parsons TR7 V8 at Taupo in the damp.
Final pic had to be a BRM. I was indoctrinated into ERA then later, BRM, from birth as Dad was a huge fan, being very patriotic. The incentive to get to Goodwood for the BRM celebration was huge and despite 100's of obstacles, was well worth it. Although there are currently several celebrations of BRM's 1962 World Championship win, seeing and hearing several V16's on track at Goodwood was unforgettable.
The damp/wet Sunday morning race for front engined GP cars was won by the appropriately numbered P25 BRM owned by Robs Lamplough and driven by Ben Mitchell.
The solo trip was still enjoyable for me and being able to selfishly spend time at Curborough (despite the painful fall day 1!), the Ambergate museum, Bourne museum (for the Raymond May's room) the Caister museum, Goodwood and the Haynes museum, was appreciated.
Whether or not I'll ever get back to Goodwood is debatable, but I hope that by showing so many photographs of the trip, it may just inspire some of you to make the effort. It is well worth it.
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Personally a great thanks to you Ray for posting these. It keeps me coming back to TRS every day just for your contributions.
It was great to see you at Curborough, distressing that you were hurt, but a great test for the first aiders too.
As an aside I see the Steve is posting more and more on Facebook, why not here I wonder, where it can be seen for posterity rather than just drifting down the pages.
Again, a zillion thanks Ray.
Thanks Rhys.
As you say, Facebook posts sink into obscurity after a while. I'm just grateful for this platform so that there is a point to saving and scanning photographs, otherwise they'd just be totally wasted.
Maybe in the future, people will look back to sites like this for nostalgic and historical purposes?
Just two of the 750+ photographs I've lodged with Alamy for sale, have actually sold! Far better that they are shown on here for a larger audience.
Incidentally, the two that have actually been purchased. A vintage Aston Martin at Donington 2014 and a 2002 shot of Tony Brooks in a Vanwall at the Festival of Speed.
may i join old fart in saying many thanks for your time,money, and effort in putting this together. it brings back memories of 40 years ago when i spent time at goodwood doing assorted things. the paddock area behind the pits has changed a lot in that time,progress i guess. many thanks
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I have noticed this trending towards Facebook within another motoring forum and this is a common negative trend, even though my view is that Facebook is a paddock for sheep. Unfortunately it is difficult to come up with counter measures.
However for a start a change of title could assist in picking up reader members. E.G. "Motorsports NZ Network" or whatever copy rights dependent, could render the site useful to clubs as a means of widespread contact. Google would surely collect more possible readers. The existing title could tend towards attracting deer stalkers, but has no practical value. The site is in fact obscure and it was only by accident that I came here, despite having been active on three other motoring forums.
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