[wilf leek]

Ant - great to see another colonial making it to one of Europe's best car events.

Some things to try to help:

The cars run in classes on roughly a twice-a-day schedule on the Sat and Sun, Friday is auction and practice.

The run is up the entire length of the hill-climb course. I can't say where is the best place to view, since it depends on what you like - full bore/cornering/starting. I think just about anywhere is fine.
What I do is book a table for wife and me in the "Moss" pavillion - basically a corporate entertainment style thing. Plenty of food, wine, and closed circuit TV if it rains. And right by the start line/starting straight. £££ tho' - figure on £450 minimum for two, as opposed to roughly £35 each for an "ordinary" daily entrance ticket.

Nothing to stop you wandering around the whole damm site, and paddocks, where you can get right up to all the cars, are open and free. Nowhere else on earth can you go right up to a swb 250 Ferrari, talk with the owner/driver, peer into it's darkest recesses, and maybe be asked to squirt fuel down the intake trumpets to get the thing started (cost me an eyebrow one year).

In recent years, good weather combined with popularity have started to make the event crowded, but the way we usually do it (and pay for it!) means we have an "exclusive" and uncrowded area to rest up, watch the cars start and run, in between forays to the paddocks and other areas.

Whatever you do, have a great time, and welcome to jolly olde.

Goodwood are about to send out their corporate stuff for 2004, last 'phone number I had was (+) 44 243 755054 - give them a call and ask for some details.

Wilf: