Revival - nearly a great event
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My experience of the weekend was that Friday was more crowded than usual but that Sunday, if anything, was less so. Saturday was about normal. Certainly the car parking was much better, the additional attractions worked well and the racing as usual, was excellent. I went to the Le Mans Classic this year (having been in 2006 & 08 but missed 10) and Goodwood knocks that into a cocked hat. It's by far the best classic racing event of the year and I'll be back next year. All IMO of course. 
Edited by RichB on Tuesday 18th September 20:58
FWDRacer said:
What's this "nearly" rubbish. Can somebody start an "appreciation for the event" thread. As my battery went flat - Pictures would be lovely too 
Here you go...The best Revival ever?
2012 Goodwood Revival Meeting Photo Gallery
DJRC said:
Those rugrats and the self indulgent daddies will also have contributed vastly more dosh to the Revival than you and they are far more important to the Revival than you, so just tough, you have to lump it.
So it's "their" event and they're good enough to let us mere mortals attend?f
k that. Another reason never to go back, along with it now being over-crowded and over-priced, and thus hugely over-rated.
I'm as important to the event as the next man, titled or otherwise.
Crossflow Kid said:
DJRC said:
Those rugrats and the self indulgent daddies will also have contributed vastly more dosh to the Revival than you and they are far more important to the Revival than you, so just tough, you have to lump it.
So it's "their" event and they're good enough to let us mere mortals attend?f
k that. Another reason never to go back, along with it now being over-crowded and over-priced, and thus hugely over-rated.
I'm as important to the event as the next man, titled or otherwise.
James B said:
Crossflow Kid said:
DJRC said:
Those rugrats and the self indulgent daddies will also have contributed vastly more dosh to the Revival than you and they are far more important to the Revival than you, so just tough, you have to lump it.
So it's "their" event and they're good enough to let us mere mortals attend?f
k that. Another reason never to go back, along with it now being over-crowded and over-priced, and thus hugely over-rated.
I'm as important to the event as the next man, titled or otherwise.
Ian Wegg said:
RichB said:
I popped over to the GRRC forum and asked the govenor and you were right...
You mean the GRRC forum is active? How do you join then, it's had new user registrations disabled for as long as I can remember. RichB said:
Ian Wegg said:
RichB said:
I popped over to the GRRC forum and asked the govenor and you were right...
You mean the GRRC forum is active? How do you join then, it's had new user registrations disabled for as long as I can remember. ~iw
Crossflow Kid said:
DJRC said:
Those rugrats and the self indulgent daddies will also have contributed vastly more dosh to the Revival than you and they are far more important to the Revival than you, so just tough, you have to lump it.
So it's "their" event and they're good enough to let us mere mortals attend?f
k that. Another reason never to go back, along with it now being over-crowded and over-priced, and thus hugely over-rated.
I'm as important to the event as the next man, titled or otherwise.
Of course Goodwood Revival isnt worth the money the weekend costs by any rational thought process. Its the only motoring event I do in the yr though, its pretty much the only thing my family does together and it IS the only place and time in the world that I can mix classic cars and warbirds and get out onto the flight pan, up close and personal with them. As such I regard it and my Aero club membership to be worth it to me.
jgoodwood said:
Ian Wegg said:
You mean the GRRC forum is active? How do you join then, it's had new user registrations disabled for as long as I can remember.
Call Kelly in the office.. She can sort that for you.J
Ironically the first topic I've read there is a copy of my own post above!
~iw
I can help with the numbers attending, having supported this event from the very first Revival, it is apparent that its now pure theatre so its an exit from me for 2013.
The meeting has a leisurely start now at 10.00 and is usually running late by 11.00
The parades are boring if you have a 3 day day ticket and the air displays are the same with no imagination as to type of aircraft.
Many race "winners" allegedly have trick cars and if I want to see pedal cars I will go to the park.
Sunday is a dead loss with more padding than a DFS mattress.
On a positive note I got out of the car park in under 5 minutes at the end of the meeting every day
(many had left early, that must tell you something!)and opening the Madgwick gate was a brilliant idea.
That said the race fans have deserted this meeting like rats from a sinking ship, which no doubt was part of the strategy, people with chairs are not really welcome, corporate bums with hospitality or
champagne drinkers with roving grandstand seats is the message now.
Goodbye Goodwood, for the same money I can do Silverstone Classic 3 days, Spa 6 hours 3 days, Brands Suprprix 2 days, the Oulton Gold Cup 2 days and still have change!!!!!!!!!!!
^Bye then.
Guess I'll be seeing you on the banks for club racing around the UK?
Yes you can get better racing watching Maestros rubbing door handles around Snetterton, and cheaper bacon sarnies and less sitting around in between too. But, when the sun was setting as a Spitfire took off over our heads, with a pint in hand and a trilby on as an open piped single seater went past, there's nowhere I'd have rather been
Oh, and to say that the Revival isn't for 'real' race fans is a bit silly. I have a season pass for two UK club circuits, and spend far too much of my life watching live racing. And this year's Revival was one of the best things I've ever been to!
Guess I'll be seeing you on the banks for club racing around the UK?
Yes you can get better racing watching Maestros rubbing door handles around Snetterton, and cheaper bacon sarnies and less sitting around in between too. But, when the sun was setting as a Spitfire took off over our heads, with a pint in hand and a trilby on as an open piped single seater went past, there's nowhere I'd have rather been
Oh, and to say that the Revival isn't for 'real' race fans is a bit silly. I have a season pass for two UK club circuits, and spend far too much of my life watching live racing. And this year's Revival was one of the best things I've ever been to!
You say the air displays are always the same yet this year we had a pair of Hawker Hunter jets - a first I believe A couple of years ago the Vulcan appeared which was also rather different! As you've been to them all I assume you also saw the replica Vickers Vimy in flight a few years ago?
Having also been to all bar one Revival (I missed the first one) I would swear there are exactly the same number of races these days as there were in the Early years, my race cards are all downstairs so I could easily check.
Obviously you've grown tired of it but personally I thoroughly enjoyed this year's weekend, the racing was great, the air displays excellent and egress from the car parks was greatly improved by the new one way system.
Each to their own but I for one wouldn't miss it.
A couple of years ago the Vulcan appeared which was also rather different! As you've been to them all I assume you also saw the replica Vickers Vimy in flight a few years ago? Having also been to all bar one Revival (I missed the first one) I would swear there are exactly the same number of races these days as there were in the Early years, my race cards are all downstairs so I could easily check.
Obviously you've grown tired of it but personally I thoroughly enjoyed this year's weekend, the racing was great, the air displays excellent and egress from the car parks was greatly improved by the new one way system.
Each to their own but I for one wouldn't miss it.
totally agree wouldnt miss either main events at goodwood look forward to it all year, no i cant tell you the make and model of every car but i enjoy it for the occasion and the racing along with the air displays. if you are tired of the sound and sight of the spitfire you must be tired of life
I will occasionally skip a Festival of Speed (as I did this year) which stops me becoming jaundiced and makes it more special the following year. If I ever started to feel that way about the Revival I would do the same, but I haven't felt the need so far.
There's an interesting editorial by Alistair Clements in the current Classic & Sports Car magazine about getting a fresh perspective by experiencing the event in the company of a first-timer. I might do that next year, introduce a friend.
~iw
There's an interesting editorial by Alistair Clements in the current Classic & Sports Car magazine about getting a fresh perspective by experiencing the event in the company of a first-timer. I might do that next year, introduce a friend.
~iw
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