13 SEPTEMBER 2010
BTN also goes out by email every Sunday night at midnight (UK time). To view this edition click here.
The Business Travel News
PO Box 758
Edgware HA8 4QF
United Kingdom
info@btnews.co.uk
© 2022 Business Travel News Ltd.
2009 Goodwood Revival - Lavant-Cup
Goodwood is all about style
The rules for the media are strict. Track pass holders and TV must wear period dress. The Duke is insistent. Normal patrons can dress how they like, but the classic line is encouraged.
Goodwood is an anomaly and a very successful one at that, combining a quite separate motor racing track, speed hill climb, a flat horse racing course “Glorious Goodwood” and the Goodwood Park Hotel and Country Club with not one but two Championship golf courses. You can visit all year round.
Since its inauguration in 1998, the Goodwood Revival has become the world’s most popular historic motor race meeting and the only event of its kind to be staged in the romantic time capsule of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. As a motor racing circuit Goodwood thrived between 1948 and 1966.
It was the scene of the near fatal crash of the then Stirling Moss in 1962, and of his own ‘revival’ if that is the right word, as the senior personality in today’s motor racing world. Perhaps not so well known, it was at Goodwood that New Zealander Bruce McLaren (aged 32) lost his life when his McLaren Can-Am car crashed on the Lavant Straight just before Woodcote on 2 June 1970. McClaren have been eight times constructor champion.
John Surtees will be honoured at this year’s event, the only man to be world champion on both two wheels and four. BRM (British Racing Motor) will also be highlighted, the winner of 17 Grand Prix and Graham Hill’s victory stead three times at Monte Carlo.
Moss and his late sister rally driver Pat, Goodwood 1955
The Goodwodd Trophy race gets under way in 2009
The Revival Weekend is not just motor racing. If you have not been before make time to visit the Earls Court Motor Show. Here, and under cover, it is not all vintage. Expect to find the new Jaguar XJ. The Freddie March “Spirit of Aviation” will include some rarely seen aircraft. For those not inhibited with money Bonham will be conducting a car auction, whilst 1930s-style the March Motor Works “art deco” style showroom building houses a range of mouth-watering 1950s and 1960s road and race cars.
The Supermarine Spifire is part of the Goodwood heritage
On Revival Sunday, a very special Goodwood-based RAF pilot will be honoured with a moving tribute. American-born Billy Fiske joined the RAF long before the USA became formally involved in the Second World War. Fiske was a dynamic and successful young American that wrote and directed movies and was a double Olympic bobsled champion. He was the first American to volunteer to join the RAF when war was declared, and joined the famous 601 Squadron, flying from RAF Westhampnett and nearby Tangmere, and dashing around the Sussex country lanes in his distinctive Blower Bentley. Sadly he was one of the first US citizens to lose his life in World War II, shot down in August 1940.
ADMISSION: The gates open at 07:30 each day. The organisers are keen to get motor racing in the blood at an early age and accompanied under 12s get are admitted for free. A basic pass for all three days costs £107, with standalone tickets priced at £35 for Friday and £50 for Saturday and Sunday.
Goodwood also has one of the best and most informative of websites anywhere. Perhaps its 21st century approach is the secret of its success. www.goodwood.co.uk
All comments are filtered to exclude any excesses but the Editor does not have to agree with what is being said. 100 words maximum