V-Power Sunday Cancelled

[F17 GTB]

Thank you for registering your vehicle for Vee-Power Sunday, however we must sadly inform you that the event has been cancelled. Unfortunately, since the cancellation of Japanese Sunday, the car parks surrounding the Motor Circuit haven't recovered to the standard required to ensure our customers have an enjoyable and risk-free experience. This is not a decision that has been taken lightly, but one that we have made in order to secure the safety of our customers.

Vee-Power Sunday would have been the Breakfast Club season finale so make sure you’re following us across social media and that you’ve signed up to our email updates so we can keep you up-to-date regarding exciting 2018 updates and theme announcements. Finally, please share this message with any friends who are planning on attending but may not have access to email.

Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

Kind regards,
Goodwood Breakfast Club Team

[realjv]

Shame, was looking forward to it. Oh well Brands Hatch for me then and the BTRA Truck Racing finale.

[Alex]

They are being very cautious indeed cancelling the event now, when it's still 2 weeks away.

[WJNB]

'Crowd Safety' 'Customer/guest care' & all that crap are the fashionable buzz-words in & around the Goodwood estate at the moment, they earn you a lot of Brownie points.

[chisteve]

I think you will find the fields for parking are fairly waterlogged at present

[anonymous-user]

How utterly, utterly pathetic. Having suffered some horrifically rainy Revivals with massive crowds and flooded car parks it's a clear case of "not enough money in it so we can't be bothered".

[Ian Wegg]

Isn't that basic economics? Costs must be lower than income. Unless you're deliberately setting out to go bust I can't think of another way of running a business.

[F1JHerbert]

rockin said:

How utterly, utterly pathetic. Having suffered some horrifically rainy Revivals with massive crowds and flooded car parks it's a clear case of "not enough money in it so we can't be bothered".

I spoke to one of the marshalls at Goodwood yesterday (Saturday, 4th November) and he was telling me that the fields were still waterlogged. This is a field directly opposite the motor circuit. I have been to the circuit several times since the Revival and the fields look bad. I can see you complaining IIFF you got stuck in the field etc. I can understand where they are coming from. Breakfast Clubs are a FREE event. IIFF they (Goodwood) have to pay drivers of trackers etc to pull cars from the fields etc, This would mean the price of tickets for Members' Meeting or FoS or Revival will go up. Or they will charge a Fiver per head for the breakfast club to cover cost of paying the tracker drivers and running of the trackers. To me, yes I am dissappointed but yet I cycle in each direction.

Are you willing to pay £10 or £20's to be pulled out of a muddy field??? for a FREE event?

[Ed Moses]

I was marshalling for the AC Owners Club Sprint at the circuit yesterday and we parked infield at the St Marys post. Even with two cars making to very slow and careful drives over the grass the ground was very cut up. There is no way it would work with hundreds of cars in the normal fields.

Regards,

Ed

[anonymous-user]

I cannot for one moment believe that the hard car parks, paddocks and the track itself were waterlogged. Neither do I believe that the November breakfast meeting pulls huge crowds compared with, say, Supercars in mid-summer. And it seems unlikely it's never rained in autumn in previous years. But there we go. Hope there weren't too many disappointed punters turned away at the gate!

[Ian Wegg]

Breakfast Clubs have been ticket only since the summer. V-Power was cancelled before any tickets were issued so anyone there this morning would have been turned away at the gate even if the event had taken place.

[F1JHerbert]

rockin said:

I cannot for one moment believe that the hard car parks, paddocks and the track itself were waterlogged. Neither do I believe that the November breakfast meeting pulls huge crowds compared with, say, Supercars in mid-summer. And it seems unlikely it's never rained in autumn in previous years. But there we go. Hope there weren't too many disappointed punters turned away at the gate!

I have seen the fields and they are still very wet, I saw them yesterday (Saturday) and they still looked waterlogged. Since Revival I have been up at the circuit for various track day and the fields look wet and the soil looking heavy.

[Waldo87]

The revival is a huge event that brings in alot of money & would probably cost more to cancel than run so they can justify damaging the fields once a year. The 2 fields usually used for parking for breakfast clubs are used for livestock during the year I think. This obviously has an effect on the farm. To allow breakfast clubs on there to further churn the ground delays the fields returning to a usuable condition. When I've been in the big field opposite before & it's been slightly muddy you get a few people in rwd & 4wd doing donuts which then causes even more damage

[Jacobyte]

Ed Moses said:

I was marshalling for the AC Owners Club Sprint at the circuit yesterday and we parked infield at the St Marys post.

Thank you it must have been miserable for you standing there all morning with the constant drizzle and wind.