Kicking off with The Moving Motor Show, The Goodwood Festival of Speed's size and scope just gets bigger every year. And PH is going to be there all weekend. Indeed, Lord March is going to be charging us rent at this rate. In keeping with recent event blogs like those from
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My Saturday at the Festival of Speed was somewhat curtailed by traffic. Nope, not getting into the site (I may have just been lucky but it seems to have been pretty good this year) but on the sodding M25. With an interview with Infinti's Jerry Hardcastle booked for 2pm things were looking a bit squeaky cheeked but I made it onto the stand just 10 minutes late. Not bad all told and it was well worthwhile, Jerry's tales of building the Juke R and his latest inventive use of the GT-R engine in the Q50 Eau Rouge that's running here really interesting. He's definitely on the PH wavelength with the car too - full story to follow once I've transcribed the chat but it's always good when your interviewee keeps looking at his PR handler and prefixes each comment with "He's not going to like me saying this but..."
Reid in the ill-fated Aston Martin
Later in the day we managed to catch the qualifying for the big boys setting times for the timed runs, anticipation building ahead of Loeb's run in particular. With many people heading off the action on the track at this point was really hotting up, Jann Mardenborough following his 49.27 Supercar category winning run in the GT-R NISMO Time Attack, Anthony Reid just behind in the rather more lairy looking Noble M600. In the GT-R GT3 Mardenborough was again setting the pace, Reid sadly putting his Aston Martin into the flint wall and delaying Loeb's run. It looked impressive but he'll have to find five seconds to beat Nick Heidfeld's famous 41.6. As much as the demonstration runs are fun it gets rather more exciting when the heat of competition really heats things up.
Anticipation is building. If anyone can...
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