I will be blasting my way down there in Darth Vader on the Sunday. Hope the weather is good. anyone else going down near Banbury?

Is it this weekend? Excellent i'll be in Bournemouth

Worse time of the year for us locals, the roads become full of wannabe Schumachers getting lost and going the wrong way round one way systems.

It's first weekend in July! I shall be there selling helicopter pleasure flights!

Any free flights for fellow owners or big discount elder81?

cool i have seen these for the past 3 years i have gone!
not going this year though . every year i have been something has been jinxed (for the past 2 years it was car related).

I very much doubt it, but give me a call on the day and may be able to get my 'mate' squeezed on one of hte aircraft!

Cannot gaurantee anythign though!

Will be going again this year from S.Yorks(fathers day pres from my son,booked 2 months ago),went last year in coop & what a fab day.You can get up close to everything & so much to do & see,but take heed.Get there 1st thing in morning & leave 1hr before finish(its only a repeat later & you miss all traffic morn & eve) Also try & take some scran with you,i.e. £5 for titchy bacon butty there.The R.N.Fleet Air Arm Lynx display team will be there(hence scran).

I'm going for all three days and i'm camping with 5 other mates, any discount on the helicopter flights Mr Elder81? See you there, Mr C

Im going with wife, but not in coop, should be good as announced on the grandprix button and Hamilton will be there, and i know from previous Button like to burn those F1 tyres up

I'm going on the Sunday in the coop with my lad,
looks like the best day of the 3.
Lots of friday tickets on ebay though, might be
bargins.

If you like F1 The star list is fairly impressive
to say the least for the Sunday
Star list pdf file

Like the intro too Intro

I keep playing that intro and its winding my boy up (!)

The Brawn GP is a static display as the car has to go to Germany for the GP after it, so this year he won't be in a position to blow the gearbox and rads up ;-)

i really want to go to this, can any one provide me with some details please???
(price,location,date ect the use full stuff!)

thanks

lol just used the link above!

it does not say much about entry cost's!?

can any one help?

if you look on the top right there is a 'tab' saying tickets. Click on the and select motorsport. Tickets start @ £33.

try

https://www.goodwood.co.uk/booking/TicketsV2/Speed/SpdGnd.asp

also tickets on ebay, if you're an ebayer

i need to look into getting me some then!!

thanks guys!

I'm going on the Friday! I won some tickets though a Sunday Times competition.

Sadly no JB or LH on that day, but I got to see them several times last weekend, not just on the track...

so tips are if never been before the usual sort
of things, get there early, leave early, take
own grub. Camera + spare batteries etc.

Any particular roads to avoid ?

try and avoid all the roads that lead to Goodwood

I'll take the heli-couper then

I'm driving down tomorrow night, will have to set up the tent in the dark!

I am Driving down today and staying at a camp site organised by the Mrs. My father and father in-law coming also so could be a tough couple of days for me =)

Tom

Don't be scared to talk to the people in the paddock. They are only human. I had a great chat a few years ago with one of the chaps from DK engineering - who was trying to mend a Porsche 917k

Oh and take a nice picnic bag of stuff. Bottle of champers if your going with the missus, sit on the cricket ground - its very pleasant.

I got one spare ticket for tomorrow if someone wants to give me 20 quid for it! I'll be leaving from Essex 8 ish

I went on Friday for my first FoS.

What a great day out and not even a race in sight! This surprised a race-only fan. Might on on a SDat or Sun next time.

Got a few vids on YT already...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBaxHFbyBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBpCAVHurMk

I must admit, I'm a bit displeased at the total lack of Hamilton and Button footage on YT too. What gives with that?

Beth and I went yesterday, what a great day out. We are both in real pain from sunburn though

We took the Caterham and followed parking for bikes which was a great move with nice tarmac to park on and security there all day.
Getting there at 7am and leaving at 4pm together with plotting a route on B roads meant not one delay!

How good did those Audis sound. Best runs of the day were Glock in the Toyota who was really chucking the car around and Kagayama riding the hill mostly on one wheel! Ooh, Nascars cool too, VERY loud.

Really tired now.

thanks all for the tips. Got there for 8am and
left at 4pm, excellent advice.

Paddocks excellent.
So much to see def going next year.

Did it in the Coupe, 2.5 hours each way, no failures,
only gripe was hitting a pothole in right hand lane on M25 about 3 miles before the dartford crossing heading north. Worth watching out for if you've 17s or 18s.
Wheels & tyres ok though.

Did suffer a £5 bacon bagette but really needed one
after the smell came whoffing past.

saw a few coops yesterday , green one with some kind of white sticker on the boot, a metallic light blue one think it was an x plate and was parked behind a red onr plate started STR i think. was a great day got burnt in more ways the one, ie cost of food and drink.

Ahh good, now you've all gone home all us Local Yokels can have the roads back

Did anyone take the time to explore the Goodwood area/roads?

What? We spent a lot of time exploring the countryside - the fields, mostly from a stationary position.

I was there in my Coop too btw. It got quite a few looks too. Few Bentley's, a Fezza and a new GTiR and the passengers were having a good look. Parked up next to a 599 but I don;t think it would've stolen many looks though.

Saw a Yellow Coop in the same field as us - A West. Anyone here?

I'll make this 1 day my mate got the fastest time up the hill again.

Three great days and you need them all to give the cars and bikes a good look and listen.

Highlights were Jesse James in his custom all terain vehicle, the American muscle cars, Glock in his F1 car and the jap guy who rides/hangs onto his bike.

I wouldn't rush to attend next year as i feel it will be too similar but i would attend again in a few years.

I thought Jenson was very lazy as he wouldnt come out of the Brawn paddock to meet the public after being there for a very short time, his advicer said "he thought there were too many people"....the same but to a lesser degree with Lewis, my nephew was gutted! Glock was very good with the public meeting and show boating the Toyota F1 up the hill.

I saw one very tidy sprint blue coop a row or two away from our camping area in field 11.

That was my sprinty, was that your moon gray with the very shiny alloys!
Also had a great weekend, went last year and will go again next year, saw lots of cars but spent a lot of time Champagne Bar, even met Jay Key!

Mr C

Yes Jamie,just got back from down south went down in Passat est for Sunday(fishing long hol)but met up with my son ,metalllic red coupe & reg no seems to match STR1D3Y.Very hot again & them Bugattis coming back down the hill stopped in front of us then opened them up & wow what a take off & roar.You can keep your race meetings where you see nowt.G.f.o.s. is the place.