Choice Cuts from the Festival of Speed 2008
As ever, a full audio round up of our adventures at Goodwood will be available soon, but in the meantime here are a few of our favourite photographs taken during the weekend. The remainder will no doubt be available on Flickr shortly.
Jenson Button
After a minor mishap with a forgotten battery during our first run in with Honda’s “A Question of Motorsport” quiz, we made damn sure no shots were missed this time around.
Jenson appeared to be in a particularly jovial mood and spent a good hour hanging out in the Honda tent. The team’s clothing may look daft on TV, but the colours work well in moderation.
Lewis Hamilton
Getting a decent picture of Hamilton was just as difficult this year as it was back in ‘07, with organisers trying every trick in the book to manage crowd control.
Although it wasn’t wet on Sunday, a lot of the F1 cars chose to use intermediate tyres, presumably because the rally cars peppered the track with greasy mud each time they went up the hill.
Vicki Butler-Henderson
Whilst the girl may have done her best to avoid Sidepodcast during the Grand Prix weekend, preferring to spend time at BMW’s Pit Lane Park, there was no getting away this time.
I have absolutely no idea what Vicki was driving on Sunday, but from the overalls I’m assuming she went up the hill at least once.
McLaren Air Box
McLaren turned up at the festival with a gaggle of cars from various points in their esteemed history. I wish I could give you the technical details, but I wasn’t paying a whole heap of attention.
This is a picture of a reasonably modern McLaren air box, hiding behind an even more recent McLaren chassis, and there ends our history lesson for the day.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:29 pmme said:
a couple of other pics added to drop.io:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/f1-safety-car-at-goodwood-fos
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/marc-gen-at-goodwood-fos-2008
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/force-india-air-box-at-goodwood-fos
those three were resized for the post but didn’t really stand up when positioned alongside vbh. the other 99 pics of said lady will be posted on flickr within the next couple of days.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:35 pmlou said:
yay! Jenson, lovely photo
Thank you 
Your photos are great 
Much much better than any of mine. Can’t wait for the podcast - not sure about my interview though… :S i never like listening to myself.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:38 pmlou said:
The Force India wasn’t there on Saturday was it?
July 14th, 2008 at 11:38 pmSteven Roy said:
I didn’t know VB-H was there let alone driving.
The Hakkinen McLaren was an MP4/13. Hamilton drove the MP4/22. In addition they had a couple of very early ones including on with high wings and a Lauda MP4/2, an MP4/4 which was the 88 car that won 15 out of 16 races and was taken out in the lead at Monza. They had the MP4/5 and an MP4/6. Oh and next to the Hakkinen car they had an MP4/21 with Montoya’s name on it. You expect to see big difference between the cars of the 70s and 80s but the 13 next to the 21 really showed up the dramatically different appearance of cars over the las ten years.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:41 pmme said:
there was one on static display. something to do with partners “medion mobile” i think.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:41 pmSteven Roy said:
I didn’t see a Force India either.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:44 pmme said:
she arrived at the honda tent a bit of a sweaty mess. either she was driving or they made her run all the way from the rally stage
thank you
i should’ve been paying attention, but i spent a good hour working out if there were any good light reflections i could get off the shiny paintwork.
then lewis came down the hill and i had to run for it.
i know there were quite a few, and it looked remarkably like they were all lifted from the donington collection.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:47 pmme said:
it was just down from the toyota stand. next to what i think was an old williams (turbo era), but i didn’t get a picture because it was under a dark roof so couldn’t get enough light to make it work.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:50 pmlou said:
ah right…
July 14th, 2008 at 11:53 pmlou said:
We must have missed a massive section of the festival, we shouldn’t have headed up to the rally stage first. Next time I am going to fully explore all that F1 has to offer before I go anywhere else
July 15th, 2008 at 12:10 amDan Brunell said:
Sorry to divert from the Goodwood stuff. But I had to share this. I was literally dying of laughing for a few minutes after reading that headline.
LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7505517.stm
After reading this, can we offically change Max’s nickanme to Mr. Hanky-Spanky?
July 15th, 2008 at 12:38 amSteven Roy said:
Strange things tend to happen at the Festival of Speed. The video shows 12 times world champion motorcycle trials rider Dougie Lampkin taking his bike through Goodwood House. At one point he goes up stairs with his front wheel balanced on the skirting board. The guy is awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iBSwdSf-yc
July 15th, 2008 at 12:40 amme said:
umm, oh lord.
and we’ve been doing so well, concentrating on the racing and stuff.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:58 amLynch said:
I think VBH was driving the BTCC Civic up the hill….
…will look forward to the cast and all the pics..
July 15th, 2008 at 5:49 pmIan Lockwood said:
Mmmmmmmmm VBH!!!!
July 15th, 2008 at 9:33 pmDan Brunell said:
I will take a women with a nomex racing suit (or a who can rock) over those fake plastic pit girls any day and a twice on Sunday.
BTW: Self Promotion alert: I did the first part of my mid-season review which is up on F1-Pitpass. I hope you enjoy if you take the time to read it.
July 16th, 2008 at 10:50 amStuart Codling said:
Dan, that’s the maddest conceit since Dom Taylor did an interview with Fisi, riffing off the then-new-ish Muse album. But very amusing. Why no Dandy Warhols?
July 16th, 2008 at 12:19 pmlou said:
er… is it me…or is Timo Glock being pretty ambitious?
July 16th, 2008 at 12:56 pmme said:
not as ambitious as f1technical are being, by suggesting that single line quote is worth an entire news story
July 16th, 2008 at 12:57 pmlou said:
hehe
July 16th, 2008 at 1:07 pmSteven Roy said:
http://www.crash.net/motorsport/alms/news/166281-0/matos_next_to_join_montagny_at_agr.html
Franck’s partner for this weekend’s Mid-Ohio race will be Brazilian Indy Lights (GP2 ish) racer Raphael Matos. He will be the permanent partner.
Never heard of him so I don’t know if he is any good or not but he is the reigning Fromula Atlantic (think F3 but with decent engines) champion so he must have some ability.
He is going to be a very tired and sore boy by the end of the weekend because as well as the ALMS race he is doing 2 Indy Lights races.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:10 pmSteven Roy said:
Can someone check to see if he has nicked our TARDIS. There is no other way Toyota will win a chmpionship. Even if they miraculously produce a winning car the odds on Glock coming out on top are not great.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pmStuart Codling said:
Definitely a low signal-to-noise ratio on that one…
The Glock is ticking…
July 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Can someone check to see if he has nicked our TARDIS. {Steven Roy - 2 comments ago}
Don’t worry - RSPCRF1 has got a spare, plus the facility to grow more.
Definitely a low signal-to-noise ratio on that one… {Stuart Codling - previous post}
I’d have to agree with you there. Couldn’t they even have put a paragraph or two of their own analysis in there? Either someone at F1 Technical is suffering from “Bored Journalist Syndrome” or the writer wanted to get one more story published before going home for the day. It’s not the Pareto Principle because there’s enough news floating around for substantial stories.
The Glock is ticking… {Stuart Codling - previous post}
July 16th, 2008 at 4:50 pmDan Brunell said:
They are in part two which will be out today (sly bit of promotion.) To be honest, I don’t think I have gotten over the week that the staff of the Portland weekly independent newspaper The Mercury let Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor-Taylor be the editor in chief for a month. He was probably one of the worse writers and content editors I have ever seen. The Mercury’s staff is still apologizing for that one.
I would also like to take this opportunity to announce that I have a goal by 2027 to bring a championship to bring Team Sidepodcast a world championship.
July 16th, 2008 at 5:16 pmAlianora La Canta said:
I would also like to take this opportunity to announce that I have a goal by 2027 to bring a championship to bring Team Sidepodcast a world championship. {Dan Brunell - previous post}
That would be a record. First PR officer to win a world championship in his own right. Like your ambition
July 16th, 2008 at 5:25 pmDan Brunell said:
I want to be clear, I said I would bring a championship to Team Sidepodcast, not win one. If anyone from McLaren comes around ask who broke into their trophy case, tell them we think it was Honda.
July 16th, 2008 at 5:50 pmJordan Allen said:
I thought our Steven picked up the hardware in 2010, with the toys I added to his car, I wonder if Glock managed to pass Steven….So the question is does Steven use the oil slick on Glock or is Steven really evil and first uses the smokescreen, then the oil slick.
Boy if that’s the case, specially with Steven raking up a bunch of Driver’s Championships by then, maybe we should replace Scott with Franck now…..
So Dan, is this the first documented case of a Glock misfiring?
July 16th, 2008 at 6:12 pmSteven Roy said:
Clearly some people here haven’t been near the wiki for a while.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:32 pmDank said:
Off-topic: http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/Incident-at-Red-Bull-Racing.4294141.jp
Red Bull factory encountered an ‘incident’ today involving a new component they were testing. The best bit of that (brief) article is this:
July 16th, 2008 at 7:11 pmlou said:
Ah no wonder I couldn’t find the red bulletin magazines for the british GP. They have a new website
July 16th, 2008 at 7:11 pmme said:
love it!
July 16th, 2008 at 11:51 pmDan Brunell said:
Local news at its’ best.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:21 amme said:
don’t know about anyone else, but i have grave concerns about autosports upcoming coverage of this weekends gp.
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/autosport
the circuit name is correct, not so sure about the map though
July 17th, 2008 at 1:46 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Yeah, I think that looks like the Nurburgring…
July 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pmAlianora La Canta said:
Local news at its’ best. {Dan Brunell - 3 comments ago}
That photo looked like typical “serious Mark” expression to me. Nice to see he visits his colleagues at the factory though.