Goodwood Members Meeting Live Stream

[sisu]

Salting the race track? WTF?
You have to wonder why they don't just buy a couple of these clip on snow plows for a Land Rover?

[KS]

Can’t get out of Farnham this morning so no MM for me today!

We got there OK from Lower Froyle- I wondered where you were!
C

Roads were bad around Lower Bourne but to be honest, I couldn’t be bothered to stand around in the cold seeing cars I’d seen already somewhere else. And don’t even mention parking... give me sunshine and warmth anytime!

[haasad]

Did that massive bonfire get lit.?....I enjoyed watching they live stream from a warm lounge some great car control exhibited, hopefully warmer in September,

[neilbardsley]

Does anybody know what engine the winning 904 had in it? I'm guessing something like a 2.5l flat 6? I saw on Inst that it was prepared by DK Engineering for the meet.

[jeremyg]

Rather stupidly (given the forecasts) I cleaned the 911 before setting off on the lovely sunny Friday.



I know it’s expensive, but given the recurring problems in the public car parks It was an added bonus to be in the Chicane parking area. Nice to see fellow SC Jaffa parked there.





I went with a mate who’s just joined the associate GRRC member list, so it was his first time at Goodwood. He was gobsmacked with the whole event. It could have been -20degrees, he’d still have been knocked out with the vast array of race cars, and the spectacle of the setting, and the racing. I really recommend going with someone like that. Reminds you of the uniqueness of what you can easily become blasé about. He’s in the middle of this pic, taking a shot of YOU 4, the green 904, pretty much the iconic car of the meeting.







For me, the Daytona Cobra’s were wonderful to see, in the paddock and in action. The green one was really exuberantly driven by the teenage Olivier Hart in the Gurney Cup.







Mind you, even in this beast he couldn’t catch his Dad who won it in his GT40.

I always find something new. I don’t think I’d seen the GT bodied Morgan SLRs up close before. Good looking cars.









Taking shelter in Bonhams I noticed this 76 3.0 litre Carrera Targa. Mileage about the same as mine at 85k , tatty in places. Like the seats though. Sold for 49,450 inc of premium. Are they really reaching that now? Or was this someone getting carried away?







On the Sunday I really couldn’t face going back to the freezing circuit, and opted to drive back home to watch the afternoon races live on ITV4. I gave my Chicane Parking ticket to a couple of old boys (older than me) who I overheard in the hotel talking about the difficulties they’d had getting their 500hp rear wheel drive Alfa quadrifolgio out of the mud and snow.

They were overjoyed.

Today I have to sluice the car down. Ugh.



Needless to say my mate stayed till much later on the Sunday. Loved it all.

[MikeB]

Was there for the two days, with Clive, we took Jaffa on the Saturday, but left it behind on the Sunday

Loved the Gp5 cars, Kevin Abring in the BMW 3 Series was a real star












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[Lightweight_911]

Does anybody know what engine the winning 904 had in it? I'm guessing something like a 2.5l flat 6? I saw on Inst that it was prepared by DK Engineering for the meet.

- as far as I know, the car that James Cottingham was driving (& which won the Ronnie Hoare Trophy race) is #083 which still has its original 4-cam engine ...

[Tony]

Article about YOU 4 here https://www.classicdriver.com/en/articl ... rs-meeting

Tony

[Lightweight_911]

Thanks for that Tony - I see my old car sneaked into a few of the pictures ...

[MikeB]

Here’s a quick vid of the Hoare race, loved the cream 911, it was getting its neck wrung

https://youtu.be/hjxmIhmZhbc

Shot on an iPhone, so may not scale up well

[Lightweight_911]

Here's another, longer, clip that shows just how hard those 2 early 911's were trying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eiyOaRPn4g

[john ruston]

I understand a 904/6 as are most of others.
Why jepodise a 200 k engine apart from anything else!

[neilbardsley]

Does anybody know what engine the winning 904 had in it? I'm guessing something like a 2.5l flat 6? I saw on Inst that it was prepared by DK Engineering for the meet.

- as far as I know, the car that James Cottingham was driving (& which won the Ronnie Hoare Trophy race) is #083 which still has its original 4-cam engine ...

Well that is even more impressive as whenever I've seen 4 cams raced at events they tend to be near the back of the field. Probably because, as John said, the owners doesn't want to risk the engine.

[hot66]

think John is implying theyre running 6 pots

[MikeB]

It certainly sounded like a 6.