Goodwood Revival 2010 | Sometimespace Home About ME Land Rovering Nordic Walking Twitter Friends Basic Twitter Guide Links Sometimespace The Blog of Black September 19, 2010 Goodwood Revival 2010 By LB Yes! It’s that time of year again! Ever since my father died I have made the Revival the event to remember him by (mainly due to the warbird air displays, but also due to the feel of the event – like a step back in time to ‘proper’ racing cars and drivers…). Alex loves the Revival too – after all it has lots of cars & bikes to see – both static and racing, interesting sideshows and a vintage funfair. This years photo’s from our visit: GOODWOOD 2010 We went on the Friday as his school had teacher training, and Friday is generally quieter due to people being at work/school. Less people means you can get closer to everything – even if the big races aren’t on. The cars still go on the track and give it everything they have to qualify, so the excitement of seeing multimillion pound historic rare racing cars being raced as they were designed to do is still fully there. C-Type holds off the Ferrari This year we met up with friends (Phil and Martin Stenning). After buying my tickets I was offered a pair of courtesy tickets from my mother in law (timing!), but as I knew Phil was about to depart on Irish adventures, I figured it would be a great thing to give him and his Dad the tickets for a day out and to catch up with the both of them – great chaps. The weather was superb, the racing was great (plenty of spills and thrills), the air displays were low and tightly performed, the paddock areas had a great selection of the rarest racing cars around… and this all lead to a fantastic canvas with a most wonderful ‘automobilic’ soundtrack! Besides the cars and general auto related experience, Alex had fun on the ferris wheel…. although Chris didn’t… Good job she had a brave 4 and a half year old to hang on to… I love my little lad! From the top of a ferris wheel (he’d never been on one until today) he spots a tiny yellow spec in the distance… “Look Daddy! An old Fiat 500!”…. Shortly followed by him picking out a few Jaguars for me! In the weeks leading up to the Revival I had been having a brief email conversation with Chris Barrie (yes… that Chris Barrie, but he is much more than a guy with a tinfoil H stuck to his forehead). I had seen him on a motoring show on TV – Fifth Gear – he was given the chance to drive an original Jaguar D-Type racer, and that triggered me into looking for his contact details to just say how much I enjoyed the footage (some people can drive an exotic car and just kill the pleasure – but I felt the thrills from this presentation). Anyway, we got to email chatting about Jaguars and the great event that is Goodwood and Alex’s love of cars. Chris said he has a tuned XK120 he was hoping to take down to Goodwood, so I was looking forward to that. As it happens he couldn’t take the XK120 as it was still undergoing work… and I found this out because as I walked around Goodwood I ended up bumping into him (pointed out by Phil!). It was a bit of a bugger that it was in the motorcycle enclosure with the loudest damned Vincent racer warming up in the background, as it made it hard to have a conversation – but Chris was a thoroughly great guy and said to keep in touch (this may have been out of politeness – but even if it was just politeness, it shows him as a polite guy!). Photo thanks to Phil Before you ask, NO… I did not mention Massive Speed, Brittas Empire, Red Dwarf, Tomb Raider etc…. I’m sure he gets enough of that – I’ve always liked people into engineering/history and that’s what I was interested in (even though his TV/Film stuff is actually very good). He didn’t ask me about my work, so I wasn’t about to ask him about his! Put it this way – Loads of people have “done” TV and movies…. but not many people (a handful) had driven the 1955 D-Type Le Mans winner…. the car driven by Mike Hawthorn. That’s what interested me – and the fact Chris really likes his cars. It’d be a pleasure to meet up with him at some point to talk cars and engineering – and to see his XK120…. ahhh…. the 120… If you read this Chris, it was a real honour to meet a man who has driven in Mike Hawthorns D-Type (you are the second person I have met who has done this – I met Norman Dewis last year… what a guy!) – and I hope you get the XK on the road again soon! . Rate this: Share this: Twitter Facebook Pinterest More Print Email Reddit LinkedIn Tumblr Like this: Like Loading... Related About LB www.ravenblackengineeringltd.com about.me/thelucasblack View all posts by LB This entry was posted on Sunday, September 19th, 2010 at 7:40 pm and tagged with alex, c-type, chris barrie, d-type, ferrari, funfair, Goodwood, jaguar, mike hawthorn, norman dewis, race, Revival, spitfire, warbird, xj13 and posted in cars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. « Boxing and Kickboxing – Not what I expected Urban Myth Generation… » One response to “Goodwood Revival 2010” Tweets that mention Goodwood Revival 2010 « Sometimespace -- Topsy.com September 19th, 2010 at 11:54 pm […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lucas Black, Lucas Black. Lucas Black said: Three blog updates! Goodwood Revival http://bit.ly/cUDKlD Boxing/Kickboxing http://bit.ly/9nSGPI Alex starts school http://bit.ly/aklB6V […] Leave a Reply Enter your comment here... 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