OT: Goodwood Festival of Speed - planning for '05

My brother and I are taking our dad to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2005. He's a real car nut (drives a '65 Lotus Elan bought off the showroom floor in Germany, used to follow the F1 circuit around Europe in the early 60's). I'm trying to compile info as early as possible, and maybe look into securing deals on accommodations by booking really early. Anyone know when they decide on the theme for the year? Any good discussion groups dedicated to the FoS? I guess racesimcentral and Atlas F1 would be good places to check as well. TIA! Kendt PS - to bring this back OT - he finally bought a good PC this year - when the GPL'65 mod comes out I'm going to see if I can make another convert :).

"Kendt Eklund" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> My brother and I are taking our dad to the Goodwood Festival of Speed > in 2005. He's a real car nut (drives a '65 Lotus Elan bought off the > showroom floor in Germany, used to follow the F1 circuit around Europe > in the early 60's). > I'm trying to compile info as early as possible, and maybe look into > securing deals on accommodations by booking really early. > Anyone know when they decide on the theme for the year? > Any good discussion groups dedicated to the FoS? > I guess racesimcentral and Atlas F1 would be good places to check as > well.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goodwood_rendezvous/ Malc.

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> My brother and I are taking our dad to the Goodwood Festival of Speed > in 2005. He's a real car nut (drives a '65 Lotus Elan bought off the > showroom floor in Germany, used to follow the F1 circuit around Europe > in the early 60's). > I'm trying to compile info as early as possible, and maybe look into > securing deals on accommodations by booking really early. > Anyone know when they decide on the theme for the year? > Any good discussion groups dedicated to the FoS? > I guess racesimcentral and Atlas F1 would be good places to check as > well. > > TIA! > Kendt > > PS - to bring this back OT - he finally bought a good PC this year - > when the GPL'65 mod comes out I'm going to see if I can make another > convert :).

Make sure you visit the West brothers booth and pick up a few pamphlets on their upcoming game Racing Legends. With any luck it will be released soon after Goodwood 2005.

> > Make sure you visit the West brothers booth and pick up a few pamphlets > on their upcoming game Racing Legends. With any luck it will be > released soon after Goodwood 2005. 'Tis easy to criticise. Ash http://www.siroccoracing.com

Internet User <[email hidden]> wrote here on 12 Jan 2004: > Make sure you visit the West brothers booth and pick up a few > pamphlets on their upcoming game Racing Legends. With any luck it > will be released soon after Goodwood 2005. You got that year back to front. ;-) -- Above address *is* valid - but snip spamtrap to get me to *read*! Support the world's oldest motorsport venue! http://www.shelsley-walsh.co.uk/future.html

"Kendt Eklund" said: > My brother and I are taking our dad to the Goodwood Festival of Speed > in 2005. He's a real car nut (drives a '65 Lotus Elan bought off the > showroom floor in Germany, used to follow the F1 circuit around Europe > in the early 60's). If he used to follow the GP races in the 60's I think he'd be far better of visiting the Goodwood Revival Meeting in September rather than the overcrowded Festival of Speed. At the revival both early 60's F1 and F2 *race* and long with a bunch of other historic cars and bikes. I've vistited the FoS a couple of yearsd ago - but with 120K+ attending there just too many people... the "mere" 80-90K at the Revival meeting makes it all so much more enjoyable. I'll be making my 5th visit to the Revival this year and I've allready started looking forward to it :o) -- ed_

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> > I'll be making my 5th visit to the Revival this year and I've allready > started looking forward to it :o) > > -- > ed_ >

And I'll be watching my third revival when Speed CHannel finally airs it. :) BTW, Any Yanks going to Goodwood...I "OWE" Ed Ten bucks... dave henrie

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> "Kendt Eklund" said: > > > My brother and I are taking our dad to the Goodwood Festival of Speed > > in 2005. He's a real car nut (drives a '65 Lotus Elan bought off the > > showroom floor in Germany, used to follow the F1 circuit around Europe > > in the early 60's). > > If he used to follow the GP races in the 60's I think he'd be far better of > visiting the Goodwood Revival Meeting in September rather than the > overcrowded Festival of Speed. > > At the revival both early 60's F1 and F2 *race* and long with a bunch of > other historic cars and bikes. > > I've vistited the FoS a couple of yearsd ago - but with 120K+ attending > there just too many people... the "mere" 80-90K at the Revival meeting > makes it all so much more enjoyable. > > I'll be making my 5th visit to the Revival this year and I've allready > started looking forward to it :o)

Cool - thanks for the info everyone! I was thinking about the revival meeting - how close can you get to the cars/drivers during the meet? His greatest memories about that era were of just hanging around the pits and chatting with Phil Hill. I was worried that the revival would be all about the racing and there wouldn't be as many close-up opportunities like you seem to get at the FoS. Thanks again! Kendt

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> Cool - thanks for the info everyone! > > I was thinking about the revival meeting - how close can you get to > the cars/drivers during the meet? His greatest memories about that > era were of just hanging around the pits and chatting with Phil Hill. > I was worried that the revival would be all about the racing and there > wouldn't be as many close-up opportunities like you seem to get at the > FoS.

Provided you got the proper ticket and a tie (yes - a tie!) you can walk freely among all the cars in the paddock. The atmosphere is very friendly and there's much much *much* fewer people stamping on your toes. Driver's come and go all day long and there's plenty of things to see. A few years ago we even bumped into Caroll Shelby. There's even Spritfires, Mustangs and Hurricanes to be seen, smelled and heard - man, what lovely "birds"! Put simple.. if there was one single race I could visit a year - the Goodwood Revival would be it.... It's really *that* good! -- ed_

In article <btugda$4vl$[email hidden]>, "Ashley McConnell" <[email hidden]> writes: >> >> Make sure you visit the West brothers booth and pick up a few pamphlets >> on their upcoming game Racing Legends. With any luck it will be >> released soon after Goodwood 2005. > >'Tis easy to criticise. You think RL will be out *before* 2005? Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.