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Jonathan Sharp at Goodwood

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Race drivers always get the attention from the ladies. Christian Carrozzo’s Ferrari 340MM enters the assembly area prior to the Lavant cup.

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Goodwood sights and sounds

Race meeting programs normally have a picture of a racing car on the front cover. No racing cars on the cover for this year’s Goodwood Revival Meeting program. This year’s cover? Frozen Fish Fingers. Frozen Fish Fingers! Why? I will explain in a sentence or two. [Read more…] about Jonathan Sharp at Goodwood

72nd Members Meeting at Goodwood

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Entered into the Salvadori cup for sports racing cars of a type which raced between 1955 and 1960, the 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC of David Cottingham (DK Engineering) at speed. To celebrate the spring equinox the Goodwood team planted 300 thousand daffodil bulbs hence the splash of color.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
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Read about the Bugattis at Members Meeting

To the uninitiated it must have seemed strange to call a new race meeting the 72nd Members meeting, held on March 29-30 2014.

This was not technically a new event, but a revival of older and very well established event. Years ago, the members meetings at Goodwood were run for members of the British Automobile Racing club. The first Members Meeting took place on the 18th September 1948. The 71st Members meeting (they were more than annual) was the final race meeting held at the Goodwood Motor Circuit on the 2nd July 1966, just before the circuit’s closure. These meetings attracted many a future top driver as well as the more down to earth club racers and were as popular for the members for the social side as to the racing itself. [Read more…] about 72nd Members Meeting at Goodwood

Goodwood Revival Diary: Jonathan Sharp

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Fifteen years in the making, this year's Goodwood is best yet.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

Brian Redman looking chipper.

September 13, 2012
Just got in from the Goodwood cricket match which is always held on the Thursday afternoon of Revival week. The cricket pitch is in front of Goodwood house. At 6 pm, once the cricket match had finished, we were treated to a flying display by a Supermarine Spitfire MK9, MH434. This year the display was flown by Steve Jones who was one of the Red Bull air race pilots. The Spitfire belongs to the Old Flying Machine Company. You may have heard of the late great Ray Hanna…MH434 was his regular mount. In fact it was he who flew down the start line below the roof of the grandstand to open the very first Revival meeting. Whilst watching the cricket I spotted the Fighter Collection’s newly restored Republic P47 Thunderbolt coming in to land at the aerodrome in the middle of the circuit.
I cannot wait for tomorrow.

Outside the cricket pavilion, John Surtees in white hat.

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