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hello,
sorry for opening this thread incognito as raceply.
I wrote in this forum in a hurry , because i hoped to meet some Marcos-friends at Goodwood.
Yes, i was very lucky to have been invited to Goodwood, although all came to me very surprisingly , as i did not ask for an entry to this spectacular event.
The reason for the letter from Goodwood was, that Maarten Krikken remembered the organizers some years ago, that Fastback Marcos´ were competed at Goodwood till 1966, when the track was closed for racing.
The invitation came exactly one week after my return from the 50th anniversary at Prescott, where i was with 3PLY, so it should be a 2nd time within a month to cross the channel .
And it was a hairy short time, not only to prepare the car , as it had stood for nearly three years, still the Dunlops from 1999 on its rims and the dust from Euregio meeting 2006 Nürburgring Nordschleife on the screen.
As 3012 is prepared for long-distance racing, it was not really quite correct for high-speed sprint at Goodwood , especially the diff-ratio and the huge 80liter tank in the boot. It was also difficult, to renew my licence in such a short time , as i t had run out unfortunately.
So my wife and me set-off for the Goodwood-adventure , with a car on the trailer with only fresh fluids, cleaned and polished a bit, and having done a test-drive of 15 miles around our villlage. Luckily the licence came a day before leaving.
The worst was the desperate looking for accomodation, as everything was booked out since months. (Goodwood and Boat-Show in Southampton, no chance at all) With the help of a friend we found something in Arundel, but not for the Wednesday, so we slept in our towing-car at the trailer-park at Goodwood.
As i have never been to Goodwood, still at home i did some laps on Youtube (in a Lotus Seven) , but during my first laps in practice i have learned, that this track has a very narrow line between beeing fast and having an excursion to the grass, especially with my stony tyres.
So it was rather proud to find me in the midfield with the Fastback, all around good old Goodwood cracks on brand-new Dunlops.
The race starting was a bit uncommon to me, as with the showing of the 5 sec plate , the flag fall nearly in the same moment, and i hadn´t jet the first gear in, when all the cars behind passed me and stormed away .
Nevertheless i was a very fine race, had some fine dicing with some elva´s, until I went a bit to the grass-side , having an eye a bit too long for the rear-view mirror.
Some Marcos owners came across, that was very nice, and it is nice to see some shots from Gary here, thank-you.

conclusion: Goodwood was the best event , i have ever been to, perhaps not for racing, as it is a bit short, but the people, the cars around, inside and on the circuit, the details of all the enviroments, the thousand and one thing , you are coming across at this place and during this event, this made a real great impression to us. I even liked the dressing-game and despite all the limited time in front the the departure for Goodwood, we managed to find some suitable clothing ( i think, it was the first time after my marriage, i put on a tie).

One funny thing, which speaks for itself:
We were sitting in the diners-area , having some afternoon coffee, someone came to our table, asking, if he could share the table with us....yes, of course.....after some minutes, we are already in a good talk about the plane-engines, especially the oil-supply technics, as the Spitfire in front of us was prepared to do another demonstration (with loops and so on). So we talked about half an hour about this and that, when i was asked by him, which car i was driving at Goodwood.
I explained, a little GT, it´s an elder Marcos.
Oh fine, he said, then you are driving something from my brother Frank..................................
after it made... click... in my head, i said:
yes, but also from you, Mike.


hallo christian, würd dich gern mal anrufen, hab ne menge zu erzählen
klaus

today gary´s disk arrived and i was very pleased about the fine pictures he took, especially and also surprising from the anniversary meeting.

gary, as you did not put your adress on the letter, i must go this way to thank you very much for this kind letter.
my best regards
klaus