Cars : Goodwood Festival of Speed

This Sunday we went to Goodwood Festival of Speed.   Left the house around 9am and after a nice relaxed drive, arrived around 10am.   Came in the South entrance so first went to the Paddock to have a look at the cars.   The F1 cars were all waiting in the holding area, so had a quick peek at them (from a distance as it was packed!)  Then went around to Goodwood House itself, and saw a huge crowd there as well... turned out Lewis Hamilton was about to address the crowd, so huge around there and he soon came out.  He did a nice interview and got the crowd going

Then walked towards the Cartier "Style Et Luxe" but the marshals were cordoning off a section of the drive... turned out Dougie Lampkin was shortly going to utilise the space, so we hung around and then saw him do some amazing feats on his Motorbike... including jumps and turns on the roof of Goodwood House !!

After that we did look at all the lovely cars in the Cartier area, which this year included several of James Bond movie cars....

Had a look round the Supercar paddock, which was packed !   This year does seem a lot more crowded that when we've been before (the event was sold out), maybe due to more F1 teams that ever before and the "Lewis effect" ?

Managed to see some cars going up the hill, then decided to have lunch after we walked up to the Upper Paddock

Seems to be a lot more going on generally, more "experiences" you can go on and lots more for Kids to do.   The rally stage at the top of the hill was bigger and catered more for the spectators than previous years, but also meant it was a lot more crowded than before !

Back down the hill we saw Nick Mason in a Mercedes-Benz W154 at close quarters and Adrian Newey ran past us, also caught glimpse of Steve Rider, so saw more celebrity than ever before as well.   Also got around 100 photographs of various cars (mainly) so only a small selection here!

Around 5pm we decided to leave, so ended up back at the car around 5:30pm.  The journey back was horrendous, with nose-tail traffic form the car park to the other side of Midhurst, then again around 2 miles or so before the A3 traffic lights... so ended up taking 2 hours to get home

The event itself was great though, so next time we go it'll be on the Saturday which should be less traffic !