As usual Goodwood played host to thousands of historic car racing fans dressed in a fantastic assortment of period gear along with hundreds of pre-1966 cars over the September 16–18 weekend. Of course, none of that would be considered in anyway usual unless you have fallen under the Revival spell. Unusual, in fact unique, was the wearing of black armbands to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth ll, which many visitors did, with two minutes silence falling over the circuit each day in commemoration, then it was back to rasping exhausts, screeching tires and rock-n-roll music.
Madgwick Cup race for early 1950s under 2-litre sports cars.
If it’s “usual” you want Goodwood did not disappoint providing the expected plethora of rare and priceless competition machinery to be raced within an inch of its life around the fast and sweeping West Sussex circuit. Unusual are always the Revival sideshows, it has to be said that the event has become more than a historic car race meeting. Upon entering the circuit visitors were confronted by a crashed flying saucer apparently staged to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Roswell incident in New Mexico but stories abounded around the circuit that aliens were out there somewhere.
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