On the RMS Blog: One of the best motoring events on the planet is only a short flight away from NI. This year for the first time I made it to the Goodwood Festival of Speed near England's south coast, held on Lord March's sprawling estate, and I was blown away by this automotive extravaganza.
Originally billed as a hill climb, Goodwood FOS brings together all ranges and diciplines of motorsport, cars and bikes, from F1 to Ken Block to Vintage and all in between. There's live action up the hill where supercars could be followed by 1930s racers. All the major manufacturers appear with their performance cars on extravagant stands, along with thousands of the most rare, expensive and unique vehicles from around the world. Every A to Z-lister celebrity that has even a tenuous connection with motoring goes. And it's that popular, they have to cap the public entry to 150,000 over the weekend.
The Goodwood Estate is enormous occupying some 12,000 acres, and on our approach in the queues of traffic it was clear this was an event like no other. (Read the Full Article Here)
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Originally billed as a hill climb, Goodwood FOS brings together all ranges and diciplines of motorsport, cars and bikes, from F1 to Ken Block to Vintage and all in between. There's live action up the hill where supercars could be followed by 1930s racers. All the major manufacturers appear with their performance cars on extravagant stands, along with thousands of the most rare, expensive and unique vehicles from around the world. Every A to Z-lister celebrity that has even a tenuous connection with motoring goes. And it's that popular, they have to cap the public entry to 150,000 over the weekend.
The Goodwood Estate is enormous occupying some 12,000 acres, and on our approach in the queues of traffic it was clear this was an event like no other. (Read the Full Article Here)
Read the Entire Article Here