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I've been a few times over the years. It's a good day out but...
When I first visited it was a relatively small event. It felt intimate and friendly, just fans of racing cars/bikes getting close to the vehicles they'd watched over the years. Now, sadly, it's a much bigger event - bigger in terms of visitor numbers anyway as the space occupied is no larger. It's no longer the friendly, intimate pleasure it was. Now it's busy, push/shove crowded and has lost the "English village fete" feel it had. The manufacturers are there in force so part of it now feels like a motor show. Where one used to be able to sit on the grass near the cricket pitch and have a relaxing moment with just the distant call of historic engines, now it's just full on all the time. No room to pause and contemplate. Elbows in your ribs as people rush to see current F1 drivers up close whilst ignoring the beautiful historic racing machinery.
I'm sure I'll visit again but I no longer feel the need/desire to go every year like I did when I first started to visit.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.
Just_a_fan wrote:I've been a few times over the years. It's a good day out but...
When I first visited it was a relatively small event. It felt intimate and friendly, just fans of racing cars/bikes getting close to the vehicles they'd watched over the years. Now, sadly, it's a much bigger event - bigger in terms of visitor numbers anyway as the space occupied is no larger. It's no longer the friendly, intimate pleasure it was. Now it's busy, push/shove crowded and has lost the "English village fete" feel it had. The manufacturers are there in force so part of it now feels like a motor show. Where one used to be able to sit on the grass near the cricket pitch and have a relaxing moment with just the distant call of historic engines, now it's just full on all the time. No room to pause and contemplate. Elbows in your ribs as people rush to see current F1 drivers up close whilst ignoring the beautiful historic racing machinery.
I'm sure I'll visit again but I no longer feel the need/desire to go every year like I did when I first started to visit.
Friday is defiantly much less busy, especially now there's a visitor cap. But there's almost too much going on now throughout the day that you go home feeling like you missed out on half of the event. Of course that's not a bad thing but it's probably worth spending a couple of days there to fully experience everything.
Agree that there is too much to fit into a day but we go every year so just switch around what we watch each time. Had a great time watching Loeb taking journo's round the rally stage, especially launching off the Flying Finn! However, highlight of the weekend was getting to briefly meet Emerson Fittipaldi.
Just_a_fan wrote:
I've been a few times over the years. It's a good day out but...
I can well understand as I've seen other cool events get too big and in doing so lose their charm, so I am sure you are right. But I'd still like to go...too bad no time machine, cause I would really have liked it back when. It is that older Goodwood that I really want.
To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.”
Sir Stirling Moss
