Goodwood festival of speed.

[Justy]

Hello all.

Got a ticket for the Sunday 26/6/16 with the performance car parking extra of course! Is anyone else on here going?

A first for me and to be honest I am only going because I have a Maserati foremost! and secondly I want to see an F1 car and Moto GP bike up close and angry on the "Hillclimb" as opposed to the secure spectator environments of Silverstone, Spa, Le Mans as in the past.

In a nutshell the drive up and parking the beautiful, sacred, epitome of awesome engineering will do it for me. Chatting and meeting someone else will hopefully make me realise it's the car that sets this mind frame and not a silly stage in my life!

I reckon it's the car?

 

[MrPea]

Hey Justy,
I'll be there on Sunday as well, although not bothering with the special parking area. I think you'll get into the FoS and realise that you're not just going for the reasons you state. It's quite the event. What I will strongly advise is try and get there as early as possible, and take the back-road routes in. If you're there with more than 7 miles to go at 9am, you'll get in at around midday.
It's now an almost definite in my annual calendar to get to the FoS.

 

[Wack61]

This is probably the day you need to think about putting WAZE on your phone and buying a dash mount and car charger

For the touring cars at oulton it got me round a long queue and parked in 15 minutes instead of an hour or more

 

[StuartW]

I have been wanting to go to this for years but the stories of the queues have really put me off. It's a 3+ hour drive for me so would be a super early start anyway and the thought of a further 3 hours trying to get in makes is a no sadly.
If entrance to the event gets improved then I'll be there but otherwise, I'll have to stick to the TV coverage I think

 

[drewf]

It's an excellent event Stuart - well worth the trip. In the past we've stayed in a relatively local B&B or hotel, and driven the short distance in the morning. As you say, it's a pig of a journey if starting such a long way away.

Last time we went the queuing was no more than one might expect getting into any event car park with slow moving traffic turning through gates into fields - certainly under 15 minutes.