hello from goodwood.

[Davey]

Hi guys, just thought Id say hi from Goodwood where we are settled in till Monday. We,re here for the festival of speed. Just heard jeff kollman,s soundcheck from the roof of the house half a mile away and he is seriously loud. Looking forward to abrilliant weekend of motoring mentalness.

D.

[vmax1974]

Very envious lol enjoy

[gundog]

be there friday

hooray

andy

[Davey]

You just in for the day or the weekend.

D.

[SeriesLandy]

Have a good time, went the year before last and the weather was amazing, so were the cars.

[Davey]

If anyone else is down here for the weekend feel free to stop by for a beer, were in camping gate11, second row on right, big red and black iveco daily camper with awning out.

D.

[Davey]

Day one (moving motor show) done. Nice and relaxed, seen some seriously impressive motors, the new three wheeler Morgan is fun and makes just the most magnificent noise! We even had a mooch amongst the Bonham's auction lots, some seriously nice cars for sale but some ropey ones too.

D.

[gundog]

just the day with 3 teenagers,going to cost a fortune in scoffs

andy

[AshG]

i will be down on the weekend in ckc colours. should have the roadster down there amongst some exotica hopefully

[Davey]

Day two done, some seriously imprssive machinery here. F1 boys are out to make some serious noise and plenty of jags about too. Then there's "mefistofeles", a 1907 Fiat racer that was fitted with a 21.7 litre aero engine in the 20s........and its a hand start monster too! 320bhp at 1800rpm, redline at 2200rpm but capable of 146mph!

D.

[Davey]

Well that's Goodwod FoS done for another year. Brain is now officially melted with everything we've seen. Mefistofeles did finally make it all the way up the hill. I did look for you Ash but you were out galivanting and enjoying yourself. Saw Murray Walker three times and Sir Stirling three times but didn'tget any autographs this year. Kris Meeks is mental and so is Ken Block, the things they can do with cars are just unreal.

D.

[AshG]

did i hear you say stirling moss?

http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/ww75/ashgardiner/Goodwood%202011/IMG_2097.jpg

also got mansel in a lotus, button

[AshG]

http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/ww75/ashgardiner/Goodwood%202011/IMG_2170.jpg

http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/ww75/ashgardiner/Goodwood%202011/IMG_2311.jpg

[Davey]

Got home a couple of hours ago, just sorted through the 1100 or so photos and sending 45 up to a facebook album, will provide a link later. We have had an absolutely fantastic weekend, weather has been superb and all the cars and stars were magnificent! We even shared a bottle of veuve cliquot on the front lawn. Saw john surtees, 91 and still drives like a hooligan:-) damon hill, jenson button, lewis and nick hamilton, adrian newey, karun chandhok, bruno senna, vitaly petrov, jason plato, steve soper, hannu mikkola and many, many more. Next year is the 20th FoS and the better half is already zaving up for it.

D.

[AshG]

i took over a thousand pictures too :D

uploaded 500 or so of the better ones to photobucket

http://s707.photobucket.com/albums/ww75/ashgardiner/Goodwood%202011/

[Davey]

I will look at them imediately Ash, promise:D . In the meantime here's a link to my facebook album, just 46 photos but I think they cover it pretty well.:D

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150288236388816.339862.695178815

D.

[AshG]

nice pictures davey some good action shots in there. what camera was you using some of them look like they were took from the grandstand? i regretted only going with my 17-85 walkabout lens wish i had took my 70-300 with me now as i didn't realise how tall the hay bales were until i got there. the marshalling was too good to get closer to the side of the track without getting caught.

[MarkB]

Some nice piccies there from both cheers for sharing them..:)

[Davey]

Hi Ash, I use a Sony Alpha 200 with 75-300 zoom tele, most of the action shots were done with that lens and " sports" mode. The static and close up stuff was done with the 18-55 short zoom on auto. Very pleased with a lot of them but we also got about an hours worth of video.

Mark B, thanks mate, its always nice to hear good comments abouts one's photos. I shot about 1100 but soon whittled them down to around 600, the 45 in the facebook album are, in my humble opinion, the best of them.

D.

[Davey]

For anyone interested there will be a programme from FoS on ITV4 next tuesday 8pm.

D.

[baz-r]

still on itv player if anyone missed it like i did :cool: