Thought I\'d post some (all right, then, bleeding loads :Giggle) of pics from today\'s Festival of Speed up in case anyone wants to have a look.
WARNING....non-rotary content, but if you\'re on this site you\'re enough of a ptrolhead to appreciate the beauty of the cars (and bikes) shown off at this awsome event :D.
Sadly, a very poor showing from Mazda this year, despite being one of the title sponsors again. They had a "trade" dealer stand as usual, but not a single entrant in any class, not even any Lola built cars. Not a whiff of the 787B, except on some posters in their hospitality. No Furai, no concepts, bugger all. Must try harder :mad:.....
We\'ll start with something everyone should know, ease you in gently...
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(this is the only time it\'s acceptable to have a blue car with 555 logos, when your name was R. Burns and you had a hooring great carbon snorkel stuck through the bonnet :Giggle)
Carbon Aston intake setup, mmmm
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Fennsport Celica..
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Well-used "Gazoo Racing" Lexus
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40 years of Porsche 917\'s celebrated this year...
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Iconic colours, sport was soooo much better in gaspers livery :Giggle
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"New" Evo X making the new Imprezza look pretty p*** poor
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Brett Castle\'s Datsun on the Toyo stand
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Laydeeeees :D....nowhere near enough of this sorta thing going on imho
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Mad but lovely AutoUnion streamliner thing..
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...and proper man\'s racers, the widowmaking AutoUnion Type D...an aeroplane engine nailed to a handmade ally shell with a drum-braked bicycle wheel at each corner...and the best part of 200 mph :eek:
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75 years of the Mercedes "silver arrows"...the Mercedes-Benz M196 streamliner
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Moving on just a wee bit... the Audi R10 TDI LeMans car in a few details...
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(think Audi have nicked my sidelight design there):rollin
Bentley LeMans winning Speed Eight...shame it was only a leased Audi underneath
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Barry Sheene still living the life from the Other Side...still smoking too! This is his bike in a haze of Castrol R (ask yer dad!)
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Irish racing legend Tommy Robb, still an absolute superstar at about eighty something and having what appeared to be his missus pose on the bike :eek:. How\'d he do that, then...must be the luck of the Irish :mmmm
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Ducati Desmoseidici MotoGP bike
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And the Kawasaki ZXRR MotoGP Tamada bike
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hmmm, loud!
Fat, sorry, fast Freddie Spencers HRC racer
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Michael Dunlop\'s new prototype Norton twin rotor NRV588 ROTARY!
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My bike :D OK, OK, so it was "Lucky" Luccineli\'s Ducati, but he nicked my nickname, honest
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Excellent advice on the Phase One Endurance championship bike
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The Goodwood House lawn ornament sculpture...
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The Peugeot 908 LeMans diseasel....
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How about this for a brake set-up...on the rear!:eek
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100 years of Bugatti. Why can\'t they make cars this beautiful nowadays? The Type 57T Tourer
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George Harrison\'s "Tantric" Guru-inspired Mini
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The "Captain America" and "Billy" bikes out of the classic movie Easy Rider
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You think you spend a lot of time "detailing"? Try this for size :eek:
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The simply insane one-off Hispano Suiza...check those rims!
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Maserati Ghibli Spider
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Fezza Daytona 365 GTS/4
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Lalique crystal Roller mascot
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Chris Evans provided his collection of Ferraris, all repainted white in aid of Save the Children, I believe the cahrity was, which is testament to the guy. I guess he\'s knocked a few grand off their value, but I rather liked the look tbh
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Awesome shots - shame i had to miss this year - even had a free ticket for the friday, but had to work as have blagged next Saturday of instead! :D:D and been pretty much each year for last 5.
I heard that Mazda had lots of cows outside their show stand ?!?! whats the deal with that?? did you see this too?
This one\'s for Adam...the only one Evans didn\'t repaint, because it\'d have been like painting in eyebrows on the Mona Lisa...the California :god
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A whole paddock of Mercedes McLaren SLRs of various sorts, Black, 722, 722"S" Cab, Stirling Moss Limited Edition...
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(loving those flyscreens on the Stirling Moss edition, nice, on a 200mph car :D)
Focus RS sounded like a mad animal with farting and banging (presumably anti-lag? Dunno) sounded great, looked foul :Giggle
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Supercharged Monaro VXR thing
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Aston DBS carbon diffuser...want one for my FD
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The new GTR-35 spec-V Edition....
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And the new 370Z in the most hideous colour Nissan could find at the back of the shed! :3Confused
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Mad Tramontana concept thingy, all carbon, all insane, but you would, really
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The new Fezza California...tbh nowhere near the original, but ok if you like that sorta thing. Rather natty carbon ceramic brake setup, though
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The New Alfa Romeo BC, this one\'s the Spider, also with an immense brake setup :eek
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Evil mad baby-eating Caparo T1...look out, it\'ll have your legs off. Or catch fire. Or blow up :D
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Couldn\'t get near the last ever Murcielago, the 670 Super Veloce, too many proles clambering all over it. Couple of detail shots though
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Koenigsegg CCX-R actually looked quite sensible from some angles, in this sorta company
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Proudly displaying its Mazda RX-7 FD rear reflector/reversing light units :D
Veyrons seem a bit passe nowadays, place was stuffed with them :Giggle Mind you, you know you\'ve "arrived" when you can send your entire Veyron away to be chromed :eek:
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RUF CTR3 Porker, nice in primer grey for all you Stuttgart afficianados
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New Audi R8 V10 engined car (errr, wouldn\'t that be an R10 then? :3Confused Dunno. Never understood Audi\'s nomenclature)
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Ooooh, more carbon!
Rather less nice is the new four-door Porsche Panamera 4S. It just looks wrong, stop it now, Porsche before you embarass youselves
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Ginetta G50 prototype currently clearing off in the British GT championship as a wild card test car
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Merc CLK Black for the well-heeled hooligan-about-town
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Finally, a few random odds and sods...
Ferrari "bread van" 250 GT SWB
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And a proper 250 GTO
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How much for the plate, then :eek:
Rally Capri RS!
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Evil Aston V8
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Original AC Cobra autographed by Carrol Shelby and currently valued at a cool million
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Alan Moffat\'s Mustang Boss 302, very very cool car if you know your Yank Tanks
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And some random NASCAR things, which made by far one of the best noises of the day (in lieu of a racing rotary, give me a big fat V8, thanks) and far and away the best rolling burnouts :D
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And finally, the only way a rotor-head could get a fix this year, and no bad thing, another of Michael Dunlop\'s lovely new prototype Norton NRV 588 rotary, and the original (and still most beautiful race bike ever made) Trevor Nation\'s JPS Norton
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Quote from: goldk28611;623235Awesome shots - shame i had to miss this year - even had a free ticket for the friday, but had to work as have blagged next Saturday of instead! :D:D and been pretty much each year for last 5.
I heard that Mazda had lots of cows outside their show stand ?!?! whats the deal with that?? did you see this too?
Glad you like the pics, dude, and yeah...next Saturday\'s more important :D. Yes, Mazda did have a couple of life-sized cow statues outside their stand. And no, I couldn\'t tell you why or WTF they were all about for the life of me. Very odd, it was like visiting Milton Keynes :rollin
mmmmmmm some awesome cars, really wish i could have gone, will have to try and make it next year
lots of very nice pics nik :)
tho the bread van looks more like postman pat van on steroids lol
Really wish i\'d gone now :o
The Auto Union cars are just a work of art and you know how i feel about the Ferrari California... its like a sneeze, only better :p
I saw an Alfa 8C last night on the road and nearly crashed into the barrier from straining my neck round. Beautiful looking car.
I think the 250GTO with the same plate was there the year i went and there was another in a horrible limey green colour too.
Glad you had a good day out. Will deffinately have to make it next year. :D
Adam
wow, looked like a fab day out. awesome collection of images :D
Shaun
nice one mate lovely pics and comments lol
Nice.....but no rexs...I mean what the... :P
Some nice cars there Nik & I even spotted in the back ground of one of your Photos,a Aston Martin Bulldog :D I think they only built 5 :2Rolleyes
I try & go next year,missed it 2 years on the trott now :(
Quote from: CharlieP;623284Nice.....but no rexs...I mean what the... :P
I was proper p***ed off with that, tbh. Mazda usually manage at least one racing rotary, but nothing at all, it was a disgrace. Their stand/hospitlaity looked crap too, leaving aside the concrete cows (WTF!?). It had a hardtop MX5, the new R3 RX-8 and two little rubbish hatchback things that I can\'t even drag up from memory they were so anonymous. The stand looked like it was designed to hold about ten cars so it looked really barren, and not in an arty kinda austere way, just a "ooops, forgot to pack some cars" kinda way.
One of my friends was talking to a salesman and having a go in the MX-5 cos she\'s thinking of buying one, and I got talking to another Mazda bloke whilst I was waiting. He explained about how my RX-7
would have been an import, because there were only 600 UK models sold. Errrm, sorry mate? Not 120, then? You sure? :confused:
Yep, apparently 600 FD Uk models were sold. Right, then. And they look really dated now and just don\'t stand out if you see them on the road at all. The RX-8 is far more of a head turner and much more exclusive. Like,
WTF!? Is this man a random lunatic that blundered onto the stand by mistake...no, he\'s got a Mazda poloshirt on and a clipboard, he
must work here then. Sorry, mate, again please....FD RX-7s look really boring and don\'t stand out if you see one on the road, yeah!? :eek:. Rx-8s are exclusive!? :Giggle
I was looking around for the hidden cameras, couldn\'t believe that a Mazda employee would know so little about his own marque! I thought he musta been doing it for a laugh cos he was bored of talking to idiots, but he was dead serious. Considering Mazda are a title sponsor of the event, it looked like they dragged along the bare minimum because they had to, and it sucked donkeys. They wanna sort it out for next year, or I shall not be impressed at all :mad:
Well my Rex was in the car park - It\'s the least I could do!
Must say it was a fantastic day (went on the Sunday). Didn\'t take many photos though, so nice looking back through Nik\'s collection. I note you took a photo of the streamlined Auto Union - There was no sign up and I was trying to puzzle out what it was - certainly not a track car, it looked more like a Land speed Record vehicle to me.
One of the \'anonymous\' hatchbacks on the Mazda stand was the Mazda 2 in vivid green and my daughter absolutely adores it - I had to photo her sitting in it and she vows to one day own one (when she\'s finished Uni and got a job) - so horses for courses, but I do take your point it was generally very uninspired.
It was generally a great day, just sitting watching all that exquisite machinery thundering up the hill (the Peugeot Le Mans winner would have put a London Bus to shame with the plumes of thick grey smoke billowing out the back on down shifts. One of the highlights of the day was when we sauntered up to the top paddock at about 6 o\'clock just in time to see Jenson Button come thundering in in a 1930\'s GP Mercedes (he had no \'last years\' car to use). He then jumped out and came across to greet the crowd and sign autographs etc, this was quite an unexpected bonus as we thought the day was over.
Can\'t recommend Goodwood enough, this was my third visit and I\'m just starting to get the hang of where everything is and where the best viewing places are.