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Re: Goodwood

To: Paul-Richardson@cyberware.co.uk, triumphs@autox.team.net, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Goodwood
From: GuyotLeonF@aol.com
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:28:14 EDT
In a message dated 19/09/99 21:05:24 GMT Daylight Time, 
Paul-Richardson@cyberware.co.uk writes:

<< Subj:     Goodwood
 Date:  19/09/99 21:05:24 GMT Daylight Time
 From:  Paul-Richardson@cyberware.co.uk (Paul Richardson)
 Sender:    owner-fot@autox.team.net
 Reply-to:  Paul-Richardson@cyberware.co.uk (Paul Richardson)
 To:    
 
 Hi Gang
 
 The racing at the Goodwood Festival today was truly magnificent. We had two
 and three quarter hours of it on TV. The day was marred, however, by a very
 nasty accident involving Sir Jack Brabham at about 4pm this afternoon in
 the F1 race. The cameras caught the accident just as Sir Jack spun off the
 circuit on a fast section (in an F1 Mclaren BRM). He went off and hit a
 bank very hard backwards and spun violently several times back into the
 middle of the circuit on the penultimate lap. The car was a write off and
 the race was stopped.  Although moving about in the car he was doubtless
 very badly shaken. The transmission ended there and after summing up the
 day the TV people said he had been taken by ambulance to the Medical unit
 for treatment. Two cars were involved and it looked like a coming together
 of some sort, but that was out of camera shot. Sir Jack, now 73, was
 driving quite brilliantly until the shunt and was in fifth place showing
 all the 'young uns' how it was done. There's been no bulletin on the early
 evening news here so lets hope that no news is the best news and he was not
 badly hurt. 
 
 Paul
  >>
I was at the Goodwood Revival Meeting yesterday, (Saturday), with lister 
Scott Barr, his wife Barbara, and sister Karen from Wisconsin, (they must be 
back there by now).

We all had a truly magnificent day out.
I made the effort to dress up in period garb, and blended in fairly well with 
hundreds of others!
We saw a few famous folk, including F1 driver David Coulthard and his very 
lovely wife/girlfriend...and out on the race-circuit many others, including a 
bike race where Barry Sheen came a very convincing first and poor Damon Hill, 
came extremely last, although it was a wet race, and Damon is more of a F1 
driver than a bike racer these days.
Murray Walker was commentating.
They all got big cheers and restrained British clapping.
There were many other races which we got to watch from the grandstand, 
including one where Mark Knopfler lost a front RH wheel from his very lovely 
Racing Aston Martin.
Damage appeared light, thank goodness!
There was a near miss when some idiot, decided to turn right into the pit 
lane, and almost crossed in front of another car overtaking him on his 
right...luckily he stopped in the nick of time!!!  Some people should not be 
out on the track! 
However, on the whole, the racing was very exciting, with only a few scrapes 
of wings and things!
The classic car park was exceedingly interesting with some beautiful cars to 
drool over.
There were only a few Triumphs unfortunately, but I saw a couple of very nice 
white TR3A's, a red and white Herald Saloon, a couple of Stags and a gorgeous 
tuned TR4 in BRG., and of course my Vitesse Convertible...There may have been 
more Triumphs though ?
The weather held out pretty well, with only a couple of showery bits and a 
few gusts to reduce the temperature, but not enough to spoil the day.
We drove the 2.5 hours down there via scenic Sussex, with the hood firmly 
down.
(Terrific sports those ladies in the back!), but we put it back up for the 
1.5 hour dash home in the evening.  Any drizzle was quickly forgotten during 
our Champagne Picnic.
  
It is all quite different to the Goodwood Festival in June, but on the whole, 
I think it worked out pretty well.
The only real mistake I think was restricting entry to the paddock to members 
of the Goodwood Road Racing Club, (60 GBP/year, January-December), whereas 
before it was open to everyone.
The best thing was that we didn't have to queue to get in for an hour, 
possibly because I had a pre-arranged parking ticket for the classic parking 
area.
There was also plenty of hot food and drink available, at reasonable prices 
and with little or no standing in line!

And the cars, of course, it was like we had died and gone to heaven!!!
seven D-type Jaguars in a row, four or five BRM's the same number of 
Maserati's and even more Ferrari's and countless Aston Martins and Bentleys 
etc.  
Lister Jaguars, Cooper Climaxes etc  
There was simply too much to even list.

And, oh boy are BRM's ever loud when they hurtle down the pit straight ?

You had to be there!
Thank you to the Earl of March, for making your home available to us to 
enjoy. 

All the best
Léon
  
 







 





  






 

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