Goodwood Festival of Speed 2023, See You There!

[HiFi Lounge]

Hi all,

It is such an honour and a privilege to be one of a select few who get invited to drive up the hill at The Goodwood Festival of Speed so I am delighted to say that I’m going back again this year to tackle the hill for 3 days in our Jeff Gordon no 24 NASCAR as part of NASCARs 75th year anniversary celebrations.

Doing it last year was one of the best few days of my life so can’t wait to do it all again.

If you are there please come and say Hi, we’ll be in the main paddock, the ones making all the noise

Cheers,
Paul.

[HiFi Lounge]

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2023 Photobook!



Hi All,

I know this isn't exactly HiFi but there is a music link and I know a lot of our customers are petrolheads so I thought I'd quickly post a few pictures and look back at was a very interesting FoS, I actually could post loads but have restricted myself to a handful.

Firstly it is a real honour to be one of a select few to be invited to drive up the hill at Fos, for those who don't know this years event was to celebrate 30 years of FoS so was a big one, unfortunately the weather didn't want to play ball with Friday being very wet, Saturday actually cancelled due to high winds but Sunday we got a dry and sunny day so we had all conditions to deal with.

Friday

Trying to man handle a 900hp Nascar on slicks with no windscreen wipers or windscreen blowers in the pouring rain was an experience I will never forget, the power wasn't really a problem but visibility really was an issue as Nascars are not designed to be driven in the wet, by the time I'd got to the flint wall my glasses and the windscreen had totally misted up + the screen was covered in rain so I couldn't actually see it as it is under trees and it totally disappeared as I was heading towards it so I had to guess where it was and drive slowly hoping to not hit anything, by luck more than judgement we survived but I decided to not do the afternoon run as the rain was even heavier, good old British summer time.

Here's a few pics from Friday -

Doing it in style, we hired a camper van for the weekend.



Slippery When Wet





Made it to the top of the hill somehow with no visibility



Then the news broke that Saturday would be cancelled due to high winds so we were asked to go down and secure our cars.



With Millions of pounds worth of cars on site the evacuations began



Saturday

This a very strange day, we went down to check on the car and Goodwood was like a Ghost town, crazy really when so many people were expected.

At least the divers ball went ahead and we were treated to a ZZ Top concert which was excellent as I'd never seen them play before and they really were brilliant.

Deserted







ZZ Top were Awesome though at the Drivers Ball





Sunday

Normal service resumes and we managed to get 2 runs in, it was very impressive that everyone got all the cars back.

Hanging out with Jenson Button



And Mick Schumacher



Johnny Herbert also



Much more fun getting to the top of the hill in the dry



Finally a quick pic of my favourite car, GT40 P/1075, winner of LeMan in 1968 and 1969, possible the most valuable car in the world.



So there we are a weekend to remember for various reasons, the highlight though was that Jeff Gordon, whose car I was driving and whom I'm a huge fan of mentioned our run on his social channels, that really made my day, now had 100,000 views on Facebook and Twitter, mad.



Cheers,

Paul.

[Puffin]

I have never been, but get to hear all those driving there and back as we live near the A286. I watched the compilation TV programme which gives you a flavour of what goes on. That Mc Murtry last year....what a hoot.

[Macca]

was it the real ZZ Top and the real Eliminator?

[archiesdad]

Met Johnny Herbert at a car club doo, what a hoot he was, and smiled constantly all evening despite being surrounded by numpties asking silly questions.

[HiFi Lounge]

was it the real ZZ Top and the real Eliminator?

Yes it certainly was, a really great surprise

[HiFi Lounge]

Met Johnny Herbert at a car club doo, what a hoot he was, and smiled constantly all evening despite being surrounded by numpties asking silly questions.

Funnily enough I spent a few hours with Johhny last Monday, such a nice guy.

[HiFi Lounge]

I have never been, but get to hear all those driving there and back as we live near the A286. I watched the compilation TV programme which gives you a flavour of what goes on. That Mc Murtry last year....what a hoot.

I'd highly recommend going one year if you get the chance, Goodwood really know how to put on a great event.

[HiFi Lounge]

Update - Play It Loud!



Just thought I would upload this in car video of our Sunday morning run up the hill, unfortunately by the time we got to go up my forward facing camera battery had died so all we had was the camera facing me.

Watching it back it is amazing to see how many people there are as when driving you don't see one single person as you are so focused on not getting it wrong and crashing, always a relief getting to the top.

The gearing is all wrong really in the car, more geared up for 200 mph+ not a drive up a driveway, you can hear it hunting when not on the power but still an amazing experience.



Cheers,
Paul.