Old Photos of Goodwood track

Monday 10th October 2011

Pistachio said:

I think we mean real old photos of Goodwood, pre rejuvenation not iPhone photos making it look old rolleyes

There has got to be more out there come on guys dig deep into your photos smile

Well done, you're paying attention! Wanted to see how long it'd be before anyone noticed!!

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Wednesday 12th October 2011

Pistachio said:

There has got to be more out there come on guys dig deep into your photos smile

Hello, good evening and welcome - I will take that challenge.
Had a bit of rummage arround and found some from my sprinting days, I reckon '86 or so.
I used to do the ACSMC events, not sure if anyone else on here did those too?

Lining up waiting to go out.

Another general shot.

Unfortunately my lasting memories of Goodwood in those days includes stuffing my Lotus 7, I will get those pictures up in a bit

Dan Friel

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Wednesday 12th October 2011

Where was it stuffed?? Must have been pretty dangerous at old Goodwood..

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Wednesday 12th October 2011

Yes there didn't seem to be an event go by without an incident of one sort or another, I crashed at the chicane, as did my mate a few months earlier - his Midget is the red one with the patched up rear wing.
A friend of ours came along to watch me compete and had his new camera with a motordrive, so I was presented with the whole crash sequence frame by frame when they were developed frown

It's OK looking back now, but I was fairly gutted at the time as you can imagine.

Pistachio

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Thursday 13th October 2011

I remember an open track day in the late 1980's I think, full of porsches, ferrari's etc..when a chap in a Cavalier 1.6L (chrome hubcaps) turned up with his wife and family in it. He paid his money and then went out round the circuit. I believe he didn't even do one lap before going straight off at the Woodcote into the grass bank (no tyres in those days) He had crunched it pretty bad but reversed out,drove to the pits and out of the circuit not stopping for anybody…most bizarre track visit ever.

great to see some more photos keep em coming

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Thursday 13th October 2011

I entered a sprint and had engine problems with Lotus about a week before, I had session booked on the rolling road but that was after the sprint, so I just called up the club and changed my entry from Modified Roadgoing to Production Car and did it in my company car. I managed a second place in a repmobile Cavalier SRi 130 - I was pretty chuffed with that, I doubt my company would been though...

As there used to be the occasional write up in Motoring news and my MD's secretary used to read it, I took the precaution of removing the numberplates just in case. The bloke who beat me came up to me afterwards and said "I was watching your times closely, if you had beaten me I was going to contest the result as you have lightened your car which is against the rules"

So much for friendly club level motorsport laugh

ColB2

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Wednesday 19th October 2011

That's my old Red and white Mini Cooper......sprinting days, happy days!

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Wednesday 19th October 2011

Small world eh? we would have been parked next to each other, that was my 7 nose cone on the ground.

ColB2

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Thursday 20th October 2011

Ended up that trackdays offered better value for me back then. Changed car to Pantera and just seen a photo of that on another link under this Goodwood Events forum. It's the Pantera with stripes....still using it on Saywell trackdays when time allows.

ritmo

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Wednesday 26th October 2011

there's an interesting sequence in the 1980s film 'Dance with a Stranger' (about Ruth Ellis who was hanged for murdering racing driver David Blakely) that shows Goodwood pre-revival.

auto1

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