Great News! Dates revealed for 2007 Goodwood Festival of Spe

[Virage166]

www.goodwood.co.uk/fos :
"The Earl of March is delighted to announce the dates for the 2007 Festival of Speed, which is to take place over the weekend of the 22.23.24 June."

Edited by Virage166 on Friday 20th October 20:22

[Virage166]

And if you want to go, don't wait to long to order your grandstand tickets. Yesterday I received the Goodwood Road Racing Club's information about 2007 membership renewals. Today I renewed and discovered that already some grandstands aren't available anymore (i.e. sold out) (Crossroads, Park and Pheasantry on Saturday)

[Virage166]

lazyitus said:

So, from the three days, Friday through Sunday, which is generally perceived as the best to go to ?

IMHO it doesn't matter much, all days are great. Saturday and Sunday are busier obviously, but if you want to enjoy a more quiet visit to the paddock, you just have to stay to the end of the day when the paddock can be unbelievably quiet considering what is there to admire.

[Virage166]

Mustang Baz said:

Virage166 said:

"The Earl of March is delighted to announce the dates for the 2007 Festival of Speed, which is to take place over the weekend of the 22.23.24 June."

I think this is the weekend after Le Mans is it not? What an amazing 10 days

It is. Should be great, just like in 2005

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havoc said:

2005 (Saturday) was the first year we went, and it did seem busy.

Am going to sort full-weekend tickets out this year, so should be a bit more relaxed.

One question - are the grandstands worth it? I'm a bit of a shutterbug and am wondering whether a grandstand seat will be a benefit or too restrictive and I won't use it that much.

I would say they are certainly worth it, especially if you go on Friday as well, because then you have access to all grandstands. In 2005 we booked Molecomb which was good and this year Crossroads which was great. For next year we booked Park.

Please note that - contrary to what I mentioned earlier - Park is still available, I contacted Goodwood and it turned out that when I booked initially (online) they erroneously had marked Park as non-available, so they changed my order to Park. I just checked and Park is still available and so is Pheasantry.

Edited by Virage166 on Saturday 18th November 10:42

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havoc said:

Am I right in thinking that the Friday grandstand tickets are 'open access, grab a seat', while the Sat/Sun tickets are specific grandstand (and specific seat?)?

I don't think you're right there. Since I threw away my tickets (afterwards) I am not 100% sure, but as I recall I received grandstand tickets for the Fridays as well, which tickets gave access to all grandstands.