Goodwood Festival of Speed 09 (PICS!)

[Nik da Greek]

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 .

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...


(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



Fennsport Celica..





Well-used "Gazoo Racing" Lexus





40 years of Porsche 917\'s celebrated this year...







Iconic colours, sport was soooo much better in gaspers livery :Giggle





"New" Evo X making the new Imprezza look pretty p*** poor



Brett Castle\'s Datsun on the Toyo stand





Laydeeeees ....nowhere near enough of this sorta thing going on imho

[Nik da Greek]

Mad but lovely AutoUnion streamliner thing..




...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







75 years of the Mercedes "silver arrows"...the Mercedes-Benz M196 streamliner





Moving on just a wee bit... the Audi R10 TDI LeMans car in a few details...







(think Audi have nicked my sidelight design there):rollin


Bentley LeMans winning Speed Eight...shame it was only a leased Audi underneath







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!)



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 . How\'d he do that, then...must be the luck of the Irish :mmmm

[Nik da Greek]

Ducati Desmoseidici MotoGP bike





And the Kawasaki ZXRR MotoGP Tamada bike





hmmm, loud!


Fat, sorry, fast Freddie Spencers HRC racer





Michael Dunlop\'s new prototype Norton twin rotor NRV588 ROTARY!





My bike OK, OK, so it was "Lucky" Luccineli\'s Ducati, but he nicked my nickname, honest




Excellent advice on the Phase One Endurance championship bike



The Goodwood House lawn ornament sculpture...

[Nik da Greek]

The Peugeot 908 LeMans diseasel....




How about this for a brake set-up...on the rear!:eek



100 years  of Bugatti. Why can\'t they make cars this beautiful nowadays? The Type 57T Tourer





George Harrison\'s "Tantric" Guru-inspired Mini







The "Captain America" and "Billy" bikes out of the classic movie Easy Rider







You think you spend a lot of time "detailing"? Try this for size



The simply insane one-off Hispano Suiza...check those rims!







Maserati Ghibli Spider







Fezza Daytona 365 GTS/4









Lalique crystal Roller mascot





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

[goldk28611]

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 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?

[Nik da Greek]

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











A whole paddock of Mercedes McLaren SLRs of various sorts, Black, 722, 722"S" Cab, Stirling Moss Limited Edition...















(loving those flyscreens on the Stirling Moss edition, nice, on a 200mph car )


Focus RS sounded like a mad animal with farting and banging (presumably anti-lag? Dunno) sounded great, looked foul :Giggle



Supercharged Monaro VXR thing



Aston DBS carbon diffuser...want one for my FD



The new GTR-35 spec-V Edition....









And the new 370Z in the most hideous colour Nissan could find at the back of the shed! :3Confused

[Nik da Greek]

Mad Tramontana concept thingy, all carbon, all insane, but you would, really







The new Fezza California...tbh nowhere near the original, but ok if you like that sorta thing. Rather natty carbon ceramic brake setup, though







The New Alfa Romeo BC, this one\'s the Spider, also with an immense brake setup :eek





Evil mad baby-eating Caparo T1...look out, it\'ll have your legs off. Or catch fire. Or blow up







Couldn\'t get near the last ever Murcielago, the 670 Super Veloce, too many proles clambering all over it. Couple of detail shots though





Koenigsegg CCX-R actually looked quite sensible from some angles, in this sorta company







Proudly displaying its Mazda RX-7 FD rear reflector/reversing light units


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

[Nik da Greek]

RUF CTR3 Porker, nice in primer grey for all you Stuttgart afficianados









New Audi R8 V10 engined car (errr, wouldn\'t that be an R10 then? :3Confused Dunno. Never understood Audi\'s nomenclature)



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





Ginetta G50 prototype currently clearing off in the British GT championship as a wild card test car



Merc CLK Black for the well-heeled hooligan-about-town

[Nik da Greek]

Finally, a few random odds and sods...

Ferrari "bread van" 250 GT SWB





And a proper 250 GTO



How much for the plate, then


Rally Capri RS!





Evil Aston V8





Original AC Cobra autographed by Carrol Shelby and currently valued at a cool million



Alan Moffat\'s Mustang Boss 302, very very cool car if you know your Yank Tanks








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





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

[Nik da Greek]

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 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 . 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

[chrisJDM]

mmmmmmm some awesome cars, really wish i could have gone, will have to try and make it next year

[L18M]

lots of very nice pics nik
tho the bread van looks more like postman pat van on steroids lol

[Ada7]

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.

Adam

[shaunwil]

wow, looked like a fab day out. awesome collection of images

Shaun

[batman]

nice one mate lovely pics and comments lol