For most of my adult life I have lived within two miles of the Goodwood Motor Circuit. Between the last in-period race meeting in 1966 and the first Revival Meeting in 1998 it did not lie fallow. It was used for testing by F1 teams until 1982. It hosted club sprints and rallies, track days and was even used as a movie set (for “Dance With A Stranger”)
Howden Ganley tests the 6-wheeled March Formula One car, at Goodwood, in 1976.
A few weeks before the first Revival Meeting, I was with Stirling Moss, Ken A. Gregory, Stirling’s former manager and a co-founder of BRP (British Racing Partnership) and Tony Robinson, once crew chief of BRP. Stirling expressed a wish to see the place where he had crashed in 1962 on the 23rd of April, St. George’s Day and the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. It was the first time he had returned to the spot.
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