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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

That and more. Absolutely overwhelming, but in a very good way.

One could spend all three days merely trying to get to all of the vendor tents and other attractions and never be able to see all of them. There were that many of them, literally hundreds. It became apparent that there were two distinctly different sets of people attending, those there for the racing and those there for everything else. Some intermixing, of course, but almost as if it were two separate, but related events.

Since there was no way to do both, we elected to watch the racing, and did so from points all around the circuit. Three very long days, with the action on the track pretty much unbroken the whole time. And, yes, they do race - these are no parade laps. The official, in period course record was something like a 1:20.5, shared by Clarke and Stewart in the last GP held there in 1965. The up to 1965 Can-Am cars were running 1:19's. Other classes were running just as hard. What a joy to watch.

That's really fantastic. Goodwood is a bit of a bucket list item for me as well. Congrats on checking it off!

Oh, and we're going to need more pics and more written about the experience. It sounds insane. I've noticed on YT that there's the hillclimb which seems insane and has an insane variety of machines. And then there's the circuit racing. I hadn't realized that there were that many vendor tents and attractions. I think I'd have a hard time choosing between the hill climb and circuit racing, but I would probably prefer the circuit racing. The sexiest racing to me is always the vintage stuff. I went to the USGP the first year it was at COTA and while the normal race was awesome, the vintage stuff was by far the best.