Goodwood revival meeting, 2002 Goodwood festival of speed 2002

July 7, 2014

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At nigh on three hours, this season’s Goodwood Revival video verges on proving that you can have too much of a good thing. The track is bathed in beautiful autumn light, the cars make all the right sounds and moves, as does the urbane Alain de Cadenet— in between being t-boned in a Cooper, spreading a destroyer-like smokescreen in a Maserati and hopping out of a burning Ferrari.

But there is one vital ingredient missing from this offering, and it’s a very big thing: in-car footage. In truth, this omission makes for a samey feel, and you sense your finger creeping ever closer to the fast-forward button.

The Festival of Speed video, at less than 90 min and with a wider variety of cars, suffers less in this respect. But like its cousin, it reinforces the fact that you have to be there. If you enjoy these videos, and you will, the real thing would blow you away. PF

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Paul Fearnley

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Having spent much of his formative years soaked and sideways in his father’s 1933 Frazer Nash TT Replica, Paul has long been in thrall to old cars and past – and current – motor racing. He joined Motoring News as junior rally reporter in 1990 and went freelance in 2005, having edited Motoring News, F1 Racing and Motor Sport in the meantime.

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