Goodwood Festival of Speed

[Neil8p]

There's so much to see I don't know where to start

The static displays are fantastic, but seeing (and hearing) the cars move is what does it for me.

Everything from 100 year old cars to current formula 1 cars, classic racing cars, endurance racers, Paris-Dakar cars/bikes/pickups/trucks, rally cars, historic bikes to modern racing bikes, dragsters, hi tech soap box racers, super cars, everything you can think of.

You can wander round the various paddocks and get a really good look at all the cars. Never been a huge fan of F1, but being able to get so close the cars is fascinating, and standing 30 ft from a car lighting up the rear tyres on a standing start is not something I will forget.

I loved the Bowlers. I've done some off road driving before but prefer something a bit faster so the Bowlers are perfect. Didn't get chance to go for a ride, but that probably a good job as I'm sure I'd want one even more and I don't have 50k to spend on one

I really wished I had a Paris-Dakar truck when I was on the M25 on the way home. They are scary and very fast.

Saw lots of famous faces from motor racing history and we were hoping to see Petter Solberg. It was disappointing when we found out rally Turkey was the same weekend, but seeing Jacque Villeneuve and meeting Carl Fogarty more than made up for that.

But it's not just cars. There were air displays by a Tornado, Hurricanes, Spitfires, a Seahunter, the Red Arrows and even a low level flypast and a couple of turns by a South African Airways 747 en-route to Heathrow! Can't imagine what the passengers were thinking

And while some of the classic racers and the air displays are horrendously noisy, nothing prepares you for the noise from the drag cars.

It's an amazing weekend. Any motorsport fan should go to the festival of speed at least once

Edit to add, someone has posted pics and video in the events forum

>>> Edited by Neil8p on Monday 28th June 11:56