Goodwood festival of speed 2015 live stream

challengemaster wrote: »

This makes me sad

Also a round of the Irish and British Rallycross from Mondello today and tomorrow, good live stream to watch at the same time as Goodwood to fill in the red flag gaps - http://livestream.com/accounts/1426300/events/4147140

Zcott wrote: »

Someday I will go to Goodwood...and I say that every single year.

I was ther in 2012 and I literally couldnt even come close to explaining just how amazing an event the FOS is. If your into cars, its amazing but if your big into motorsport it's literally a sensory overload. Any dream car from any sort of motorsport back through generations that you've played on playstation or seen pics of, it probley going to be there. Straight off the bat, the more days you go for the better. To give you an idea we did 2 days and came back shattered but still missed loads. The Thursday is really only invited guests running supercars up the Hill which wasn't really for us so we gave it a skip and did Friday and Saturday. In terms of what to see though, you'd be flat out for the day. Obviously you've got the main hillclimb and theres plenty of spots to watch the action without forking out more for seats in the stands. Getting close to the track by the house is very hard but once you head down towards the left hander theres great viewing there. The on track action is done in groups and they're often repeated through the day so you can come and go all the time. Once you've seen them up the hill, all the cars (and bikes!!) can be seen in their paddocks. The term open pit lanes doesnt come close to the access. Every car is just there for you to walk around without a rope in sight (the only exception our year was the modern F1 teams had GP style set ups but you could look in). Nick Mason's £20 Million Ferrari 250 was just the same as everything else. Theres about 4 or 5 paddocks for the various groupings whick keeps together nicely.

Once you've had a fill of the hillclimb boys, theres free shuttles (trailer on the back of a tractor job) up into the woods for the proper stuff, the rally stage. You can walk but its a killer!! As again with Goodwood, expect every dream car all just sitting around in open paddocks for you to oogle at. The stage doesnt have many vantage points but you can get to a hairpin in the woods that's right near the end of the hillclimb. To hear a Turbo charged 80's F1 car on over run in one ear and a screaming BDA Escort in the other in the middle of a woods is just....stunning!!

Then, on top of all that, they also seem to have the equilivent of a large scale motorshow crammed into the free space. They have a big hall put up displaying all the brand new machinery like at a show and then the manufacturers and other companies have massive set up's then almost like full on dealerships. You'd be almost another day alone cruising about looking at these and some then have expierence bits added on (Porsche had a Cayenne test drive, LandRover had off road passenger spins and Bowler had full tilt off road runs). Whats cool is that these stands have big names appearing all weekend so I know I was able to meet people like Thiery Neuville, Tiff Needell, Murray Walker and more and then you casually bump into stars aswell like Daniel Riccardo and met Andre Lotterer getting a pint :-)

When we went over, we'd a big group and what we ended up doing was flying into London, renting cars and then booked a few appartments in Butlins!! It was a mad one but the rooms were seriously cheap, twas only about 40 mins drive to Goodwood and you'd have a bit of craic in Butlins sher hahaha

I was at this yesterday. CianDon sums it up pretty well. Easily the best motoring event I've been at. I will be making it an annual trip from now on. We got the train from London and then a shuttle bus from the train station to goodwood which avoided most of the traffic issues.