This year we celebrated the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Within weeks, what had been RAF Westhampnett, now the Goodwood Motor Circuit, was virtually deserted as operations moved to France.
Before the first Revival, I went with Stirling Moss, his manager Ken Gregory, and the engineer, Tony Robinson, to the place where Stirling had the crash that ended his career. It was the first time he had returned, and he was puzzled by stretches of concrete. These were pads on which aircraft had stood that had grown over, but had been cleared as part of Goodwood’s restoration. What is now the circuit was a perimeter track built over the winter of 1940-’41 to allow gas tankers to service the planes parked on the outskirts on concrete pads.
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