Goodwood Festival of Speed

[pettersolberg29]

I am thinking of going this year, but due to arrangements already made, the only day I can go is Friday.

I just wondered if WRC fans thought Friday is a good day to visit i.e. is the forest stage open and are the paddocks visitable?

Any advice welcome!

[sal]

Best day to go IMO. Now always head down for the Friday. Full stage in progress and the WRC cars usually get two runs on the hill aswell. Less busy so you get a better view.

[pettersolberg29]

Cheaper as well isn't it?

Do you get just an admission ticket, or a granstand ticket?

[wrc_flipper]

I'm going for the weekend - usually good on Friday as its less packed, but just called up about caravan and campervan pitches and its £170 for Thurs - Mon.
Will have to parkup in a lay-by or field!

[MrJan]

The one thing with Friday is that ocassionally you don't get some cars and often the big name drivers don't turn up (in general not just rallying)

I've been the the FoS 4 or 5 times but that is enough for me now. Firstly it was starting to get too busy (always went on Saturday). Secondly I'd seen the majority of the cars before and had a John PLayer Special overload. Now I much prefer to spent my money going to the Revival or (as is he case this year) the Le Mans Classic where there is proper racing.

As far as camping goes the car parks are usually open and you can just drive in and park up. Apart from being free you also have the benefit of being able to get up and just walk in to the house Edit: Not literally into the house

[pettersolberg29]

I emailed the FoS, and they said that EVERY rally car present over the weekend will do the run on the forest stage twice on Friday as well, so hopefully that'll be true.

[GridGirl]

The Rally stage was open all weekend whe I went in 2005. All the cars that participate are usually garaged, if thats the right word up there too.

[306 Cosworth]

I'm looking at going for the first year this year I thought with the rally stage you could have as many runs as you want? Knowing my lcuk i'll miss the Peugeot Cosworth on both runs if they're only allowed 2 runs!

[GridGirl]

Just buy a programme to see what times the rally stages are on. They run a few times a day. I'm pretty sure the Goodwood website lists full timetables nearer the event.

[306 Cosworth]

Ok thanks