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[Macca]

The entry list has now been published

https://www.goodwood...-list-03.04.pdf

There will be a live stream on Youtube, apparently.


Paul M

[sabrejet]

We will be there, soaking up whatever the weather is!

[FastReader]

I'll be there on Sunday. The weather forecast looks okay. Looking forward to it.

[70JesperOH]

I have noticed that qualifying is in fact labeled qualifying for this year! - at least on the YouTube live feed.. (the official name are still official practice).

 

Jesper

Edited by 70JesperOH, 12 April 2025 - 10:33.

[FastReader]

Can anyone explain how they're running an hour behind schedule today?

[BRG]

It was a nice day, so they all stopped for Pimms.

[Gary C]

I got in last night and watched around 4pm UK time (I'm in Nairobi) and hugely enjoyed it, the Dan Gurney Trophy was excellent, looking forward to part 2 today.

[d j fox]

Saw the frenetic and very enjoyable Gordon Spice race... good close racing and no banging and shoving.
To me it looked like a 70s/80 Benelux championship race!
What Id like to know is are the majority of these cars genuine or just reproduced? The announcers only talked about the race " the number 27 car" etc and not about the history.Any comments?

[sabrejet]

Saw the frenetic and very enjoyable Gordon Spice race... good close racing and no banging and shoving.
To me it looked like a 70s/80 Benelux championship race!
What Id like to know is are the majority of these cars genuine or just reproduced? The announcers only talked about the race " the number 27 car" etc and not about the history.Any comments?

 

A mix I think. Last year I spoke with the owner of a Win Percy Trophy car (a leading machine at this year's race) and he told me that his machine was a street car restored as a period racer. It's hardly a surprise since these tin-tops led a 'colourful' life in-period. I'm OK with that and it seems to be the future of historics.

 

I know that a number of D-Types at this year's meeting are also later recreations but having looked at them VERY closely, I can confirm that aside from out-of-sequence chassis numbers you'd never know the difference.

[Colbul1]

I went to the Members Meeting for the first time yesterday and I know the weather for April was majestic, I know the last race was a last to first place spectacular, and the access all areas is just amazing. But, I never thought it would become my favourite event I have ever been to, worth every penny I would say.

[cooper997]

Last year Phil from FML decided to part with a couple of his cars. Advertising locally his Clement and Sunbeam. As usually happens, word spread and the Clement sold internationally and the Sunbeam more recently headed to Qld.

 

The Clement gets loaded for its trip to the Melbourne docks - 17/12/24.

 

 

Destination Goodwood - 13/4/25

Mike Whiteman-Hayward coming to terms with his new beast during Saturday's run. In a note to Phil he shaved 11 seconds off his practice times duriing the Saturday race (after some tinkering).  Then another 5 secs down to 2m 18 on Sunday.

 

Prior to it coming to Australia, Julian Ghosh purchased it at the Brooks auction on Phil's behalf.

 

Long before Goodwood, Phil ran the car at Phillip Island.

 

 

Stephen

 

 

[Philip Whiteman]

I must say I find the 'number' commentary pretty lame. The art of the commentator is to inform and entertain, rather than describe self-evident stuff in the manner of an announcer reading out a bank statement. Good commentators carry a lot of stuff in memory - you'd have thought the new, less experienced ones at Goodwood events would have made, or been provided with some notes that might colour and authority to what they say. 

[john aston]

I was there all weekend and the commentary was excellent. I have no complaints -  and God knows I've endured some awful commentators elsewhere. John Watson was notably good  , often in areas well outside his experience And , as usual , if you were watching the free live stream , then beggars can't really be choosers - it's targetted at people who've paid to be there ,and rightly so. 

Edited by john aston, Today, 16:41.

[wheadon1985]

I was there clerking, that was me doing the starts with the union flag on Sunday. Always one of my favourite events to organise.

[sabrejet]

I'd have to say what we could hear of the commentary sounded very good. MM is one of my favourite meetings of the year and we stayed as long as we could.

[68targa]

I was there all weekend and the commentary was excellent. I have no complaints -  and God knows I've endured some awful commentators elsewhere. John Watson was notably good  , often in areas well outside his experience And , as usual , if you were watching the free live stream , then beggars can't really be choosers - it's targetted at people who've paid to be there ,and rightly so. 

That's the point really - I watched on live stream and had to keep reminding myself that the commentary is for the benefit of circuit spectators.  My apologes to John Watson when I shouted telling him to keep quiet so I could hear the glorious sound from the Lotus 97T demo.

[Doug Nye]

As far as I am concerned Wattie's performance was a revelation... 

 

DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, Today, 19:21.

[sabrejet]

My apologes to John Watson when I shouted telling him to keep quiet so I could hear the glorious sound from the Lotus 97T demo.

 

You didn't miss much; '80s turbo F1 cars weren't renowned for their glorious sound.

[sabrejet]

As far as I am concerned Wattie's performance was a revelation... I have some hopefully interesting photos to share when I get a mo.

 

DCN

 

Agreed: he had some interesting insight into (for example) his experience of Lotus Elites racing at the circuit in its first existence.

[opplock]

As far as I am concerned Wattie's performance was a revelation... I have some hopefully interesting photos to share when I get a mo.

 

DCN

 

I always enjoyed his 1990's F1 commentaries on Eurosport. Unfortunately picture quality was rubbish compared to BBC so I often put up with the trousers on fire alternative.  

[FastReader]

I was there yesterday and I agree that John Watson's addition to the commentary team was a big bonus having enjoyed his work with David Addison on Youtube's GT World Europe commentaries. But whilst Bruce Jones' input was okay, I found Alice Powell's and particularly Ben Edwards' commentaries grated on me. How I yearn for the days of Ian Titchmarsh and Brian Jones - affable, informative and never, ever, shrill, they would knowledgably talk about stuff that you couldn't see or didn't know as well as the race that was going on in front of you. And they would never have referred to "the number 19" (for instance) without also identifying driver and car. 

 

Having said all that, I thought it was one of the best Goodwood events for several years, and when the commentary grated too much I just turned my radio off. 

[Vitesse2]

I always enjoyed his 1990's F1 commentaries on Eurosport. Unfortunately picture quality was rubbish compared to BBC so I often put up with the trousers on fire alternative.  

I used to watch the BBC pictures with the sound muted and listen to Wattie's and Allard Kalff's Eurosport commentary via my stereo using the audio outputs from my satellite box.

[Doug Nye]

One of the finest drives I have ever seen at any Goodwood circuit meeting, both pre- and post-1966, was Frank Stippler's remarkable display in this gorgeous little Ferrari Dino 206SP.  It was even more gorgeous before, late in the race, he clipped the tail of André Lotterer's Ford GT40 under acceleration onto the Lavant Straight, but the latter apologised to him subsequently, explaining that he had missed an up-change which was why his car had abruptly hesitated, just catching his fellow German by surprise.  

 

But in the circumstances - and after such an extraordinary drive - what's a mere dent between friends. Incidentally, there wasn't a mark on the GT40's tail - relatively flexible moulding (and two hefty exhaust tail-pipes) v. fragile aluminium.

 

 

Photo: GPL

 

DCN