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5-26-2018
Sorry. I've gotten a bit off topic here. Back to car stuff.
So the wedding date had been set early last year, and the wife and I spent much of the spring trying to figure out what else we wanted to do. We weren't going to make a trip overseas and only spend a few days there. Opportunities like this aren't all that frequent. I don't remember how I came across it, but fairly early on I realized we would be there within a few days of the Goodwood Revival and my wife was almost as excited about it as I was. We pretty much planned the rest of our trip around this. The only day we were able to attend was Friday, but I was more than OK with that. We stayed in Ashurst, so to get to the revival we had to take the train to Southampton, switch to another train, ride that to Chicester, and take a double decker bus (duh) to the Goodwood Estate. Very authentic. The weather wasn't supposed to be all that stellar, and I think the forecast was pretty accurate. It rained most of the day :-/ We didn't let that get us down TOO much. Just the fact that we were there overwhelmed us and kept spirits high.
We didn't spend as much time wandering the track as I would have liked, but the wind and rain and cold really made it unpleasant. We spent a decent amount of time on the front straight, and finished the day on the outside of the final turn. What was really special though was just walking the pits and taking it all in. It is an incredible experience. Everything is period correct (as far as I can tell). It really was like walking back in time. I'm not sure that one feature stood out more than the other, it was just an event that must be experienced. I'm not really an avid vintage auto enthusiast (my knowledge goes about as far back as 1987), but anytime the GT40's were on track or on the move, I tried to be nearby. The airshow was cancelled due to the weather, which was a disappointment, but we still got to walk the airfield and check out the planes. Once again, the only pictures I have are somewhat crap, due to only having my cell phone. I've shared a few images below.
Not nearly enough cover from the rain, as shown above.
Probably my favorite photo of the weekend. This really sums up Goodwood in one shot.
