Goodwood Festival of Speed 2006 (many photos!)
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:08 pm
Once again it was the annual pilgramage to the Festival of Speed. This is one event I try not to miss every year.
I decided to arrive early to miss the crowds and it was worth getting up at 5:30am as I managed to see many bikes and cars without the usual hustle.
I took plenty of photos and a selection can be found here:
http://r1150r.smugmug.com/gallery/187562/34/80796758
Smugmug has done an excellent job of loading them at random, so I apologise for the disjointed nature of them all.
Highlights for me were:
The wholeday!
Seeing Troy Corsa, Randy Mamola and Charlie Boorman.
Being invited to sit on Barry Sheenes 1975 RG14 500cc GP bike.
Standing behind the Ducati Desmosedici while it was revved up.
Standing next to the Renault F1 car while it was revved extremely hard...it hurt a lot.
Watching the Honda events team carefully unload their racing history into the paddock. Everything was clinically clean and the technicians constantly vacummed the red carpet that covered the tarmac. I even checked my shoes to make sure they were clean!!
Some photo highlights:
and for DJ........a full English breakfast at the Porsche cafe.. Is it a healthy breakfast? Maybe, maybe not, but it helped build the British Empire...and then we lost it all....should have stuck with Meusli then.
A great day. I love the relaxed nature of the event. You can mix with the racing fraternity and get extremely close to the cars and bikes as long as you didn't touch. If anyone visits the UK in futue in early July I would highly recommend this event.
http://www.goodwood.co.uk/fos/
Mike
I decided to arrive early to miss the crowds and it was worth getting up at 5:30am as I managed to see many bikes and cars without the usual hustle.
I took plenty of photos and a selection can be found here:
http://r1150r.smugmug.com/gallery/187562/34/80796758
Smugmug has done an excellent job of loading them at random, so I apologise for the disjointed nature of them all.
Highlights for me were:
The wholeday!
Seeing Troy Corsa, Randy Mamola and Charlie Boorman.
Being invited to sit on Barry Sheenes 1975 RG14 500cc GP bike.
Standing behind the Ducati Desmosedici while it was revved up.
Standing next to the Renault F1 car while it was revved extremely hard...it hurt a lot.
Watching the Honda events team carefully unload their racing history into the paddock. Everything was clinically clean and the technicians constantly vacummed the red carpet that covered the tarmac. I even checked my shoes to make sure they were clean!!
Some photo highlights:
and for DJ........a full English breakfast at the Porsche cafe.. Is it a healthy breakfast? Maybe, maybe not, but it helped build the British Empire...and then we lost it all....should have stuck with Meusli then.
A great day. I love the relaxed nature of the event. You can mix with the racing fraternity and get extremely close to the cars and bikes as long as you didn't touch. If anyone visits the UK in futue in early July I would highly recommend this event.
http://www.goodwood.co.uk/fos/
Mike
..and the bacon's cooked perfect.. 