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This is a discussion on Festival Of Speed within the Shows forums, part of the Skoda Regional Meets & Events category; I'm quite interested in going to this. IIRC its 11-13 July @ Goodwood. Looks like there are some tasty bits ...
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28-05-2003, 14:38
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| Festival Of Speed I'm quite interested in going to this. IIRC its 11-13 July @ Goodwood. Looks like there are some tasty bits of machinery going to be there: Who’s Driving What at the Festival of Speed (updated 21.5.03) All the confirmed star drivers listed in alphabetical order with a summary of the cars they will compete in at the Festival. Jean Alesi is expected to drive his current Mercedes-Benz DTM car. Fernando Alonso will hopefully drive the latest Renault F1 car. Ove Andersson will be at the Festival in his role as Toyota’s Director of Motor Sport, and will drive a Celica rally car. Derek Bell will once more be at the Festival driving Porsche and Ferrari sports cars. Stig Blomqvist will drive a flame-spitting Audi Quattro S2 Group B rally car. Sir Jack Brabham, a long-standing Festival favourite, will drive an AC Cobra Le Mans Coupe. Richard Burns and co-driver Robert Reid are expected to drive a Peugeot 205 T16 Group B rally car on either Saturday or Sunday. Jenson Button will drive the BAR-Honda on Sunday. Cristiano da Matta, reigning CART champion and current Toyota F1 star, will drive the 1999 Toyota GT-One Le Mans car. Anthony Davidson will drive the BAR-Honda on Friday. Gwyndaf Evans will drive the latest MG ZR rally car from the British Championship. Ralph Firman is expected to drive the latest Jordan-Ford Formula One car. David Franklin, multiple British hillclimb champion, will once more attempt the overall hill record in the unique Ferrari 712 CanAm car. Frank Gardner, former British Touring Car Champion, will celebrate 100 Years of Ford when he is re-united with his Escort MkI Touring car. David Good will be back in an ERA (R14B) to remember his many British hillclimbing successes with the famous marque. Dan Gurney, a Le Mans winner in the Ford MkIV, will be on hand to celebrate 100 years of the famous marque and will ride All American Racers’ new Alligator motorcycle. Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparral sports-racing cars, will return to the Festival for the first time since 1997, with both the 2E and 2F ‘high-wing’ cars. Peter Hardman will be as spectacular as ever driving the Nurburgring 1000km-winning Aston Martin DBR1 and a newly-restored Ferrari 330 P3. Phil Hill will drive the Chaparral sports cars brought to Goodwood by their creator, Jim Hall. Jacky Ickx will be re-united with his Le Mans-winning Porsche 936/77 Spyder. Jean-Pierre Jassaud will once again drive his 1978 Le Mans-winning Alpine-Renault A442B. Alan Jones will drive a Williams-Cosworth FW07 similar to that in which he won the World Championship in 1980. Willie Kauhsen, former works Porsche sports car driver, will again campaign his 917/10 CanAm car. Roy Lane will be back in his McRae-Chevrolet GM1 to remember the British hillclimbing successes he achieved with his famous car. David Leigh will be back in his famous GN Spider to remember that car’s many victories in British hillclimbing. Alan Mann will drive a Ford Falcon touring car identical to that in which his team dominated the British championship in the late 1960s. Tony Marsh will be back in his Marsh-Rover Special to remember the British hillclimbing successes he achieved with his famous car. Gerry Marshall, more than 600 times a race winner, will once again drive the magnificent Vauxhall Firenza ‘Baby Bertha’ with which he is synonymous. Nick Mason, the Pink Floyd drummer, will drive a magnificent Ferrari 512S from his personal collection. Jochen Mass will demonstrate the legendary Mercedes-Benz W196 Streamliner as it makes its first public appearance in more than 25 years. Allan McNish will drive the latest Renault Formula One car throughout the weekend. Hannu Mikkola will drive the latest Ford Focus WRC. He will also be re-united with the Ford Escort MkI in which he won the gruelling 16,000-mile World Cup Rally from London to Mexico in 1970, a victory which established both Mikkola and the Escort as world-class stars of international rallying. Rod Millen, the Kiwi hillclimbing legend, will return to Goodwood to defend his ‘Fastest Time of the Day’ title set on his debut last year, this time driving a 900bhp Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck that he promises will be ‘even faster’ than his Toyota Celica Turbo. Juan Pablo Montoya will return to Goodwood on the Saturday to drive a Williams-BMW F1 car. Sir Stirling Moss will drive the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR in which he and motoring journalist Denis ‘Jenks’ Jenkinson won the 1955 Mille Miglia in record time. Jörg Müller will drive the 1999 Le Mans-winning BMW V12. Jackie Oliver, the former works Lotus Formula One driver, will demonstrate the beautiful high-winged Lotus 49B of Classic Team Lotus, which features on the official Festival programme this year. He will also drive a Shadow CanAm car and hopefully a Gulf-livered Ford GT40. Olivier Panis will drive the latest Toyota TF103 Formula One car on Saturday and Sunday. David Pearson, one of the most successful champions ever in NASCAR history, will drive a Ford Torino at the Festival. David Piper, the well-respected privateer sports car star, will drive his Ford F3L in celebration of 100 Years of Ford. Jean Ragnotti will again drive a selection of competition cars brought to Goodwood from Renault’s factory Museum in France. Manuel Reuter is expected to drive a 1993 Opel Calibra DTM. Bob Riggle, the all-American drag racing hero, will be performing the mind-blowing 100-metre wheelies in front of Goodwood House in his 1100bhp Plymouth Barracuda ‘Hurst Hemi Under Glass’ drag racing car. Andy Rouse will charge the hill in his lightening fast Ford Sierra RS500 touring car, which proved virtually unbeatable in the BTCC and redefined the genre. Takuma Sato will drive the BAR-Honda on Saturday. Jack Sears will again drive his leviathan British Saloon Car Championship-winning Ford Galaxie 500, which he still owns and drives. Herbert Stenger, a legend of European hillclimbing, will be re-united with his mind-boggling Ford Capri MkIII Zakspeed. Sir Jackie Stewart will hopefully make a demonstration run in the Tyrrell family’s newly-restored Tyrrell-Cosworth 001. Danny Sullivan will be in action on the hillclimb course throughout the weekend. John Surtees, the only to be World Champion on two wheels and four, will ride bikes and drive the magnificent Honda RA300 Formula One car. Russ Swift, the ultimate automotive gymnast, will demonstrate his spectacular two-wheel driving antics and tyre-squealing spin-parking techniques throughout the weekend. Al Unser Snr will drive historic Indy cars throughout the weekend. Al Unser Jnr will drive a Penske-Mercedes PC23 similar to that in which he won the Indy 500 in 1994. Nino Vaccarella will drive a newly-restored Ferrari 312 PB like that in which he competed for the works team in the 1970s. Bjorn Waldegaard will drive the 1985 Safari Rally-winning Group B Toyota Celica Twin Cam Turbo. Peter Westbury will be back in the Felday Daimler in which he scored innumerable successes in British hillclimbing. Sir John Whitmore will drive an ex-works Ford Lotus Cortina MkI like that in which he took saloon car racing by storm in the 1960s, as well as the AC Cobra in which he won the 1963 South African Sports Car Grand Prix. Graeme Wight Jnr, current British hillcliming champion, will challenge for the fastest overall time in his indecently quick Gould-Cosworth GR51. Malcolm Wilson will drive a spectacular Pike’s Peak Ford RS200 Group B rally car. Saturday looks good, anyone been before or got any suggestions which is the best day to go on? Jon
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28-05-2003, 19:43
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| Wow!!!!! Why Saturday, Jon? |
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28-05-2003, 21:02
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| It clashes with the first Briskoda national meet where Mellowyellow will drive his recently Jabba'd Octavia vRS No comparison 
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28-05-2003, 21:10
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| Does it now! Well that can't be good, okay team meeting...
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28-05-2003, 21:53
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| I've been on all days over the years - the sunday is full of people & the cars are just as good, you just pay more & see less
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| Funny - I've been a regular for year now too, and my thoughts on the Saturday are somewhat different! Quote:
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28-05-2003, 22:41
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| Oh, Jon's is making me feel really sorry about missing this one!  Things I would not like to miss: - the Chaparrals!! - the W196 Streamliner! - the Shadow CanAm car! - the high-aerofoil Lotus 49B! - Nino Vaccarella in the 312PB! - the Honda RA300 - the Tyrrell 001 - the Penske Mercedes pushrod car - the Audi quattro S2, 205 and Celica Group B cars - the Toyota GT-One - the Ferrari and Porsche CanAm cars - the seventies Le Mans cars - the Ferrari 512S - Peter Hardman... Other things: - where's Piquet on the list? He was supposed to drive one of my all-time favourites, the Brabham-BMW BT52 (I was this close from changing plans just for this one!) - Alonso won't show, or so I've heard, only McNish at Renault for the weekend - Montoya will make Saturday worthwile, as he won't "drive" the Williams but thrash it - will already see lots and lots of Cobras at the Revival...
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28-05-2003, 22:49
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| Would love to go to this. Have missed it for the last 2 years for various reasons and this year I'm on holiday!! Maybe next year! It's certainly worth going for the weekend if you can make all 3 days as the atmosphere is amazing.
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28-05-2003, 23:34
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| BRISKODA Staff  | Been thinking about going this year primarily to see the soap box race. Anybody know when this is? Seen the last 2 years events on the goggle box and it looks like a good day out. Cheers. Adrian. |
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29-05-2003, 08:19
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| OK, if the national meet is on the Saturday, I'll attend that, and just make do with going to Goodwood on the Friday and the Sunday Someone I know gave me a 3 day pass last night so its gonna be a busy weekend!
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29-05-2003, 08:38
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| It's gonna be a very long way between the two, as well !! :drive: |
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29-05-2003, 08:49
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| Its only mileage. When you get to 90k in 20 months, mileage ceases to be relevant
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29-05-2003, 09:02
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| Dear Muppet, Please read my posts before asking silly questions. Ta Jon
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