Cheap price tickets for next year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed will only be available until next Monday. Early access tickets for the event, camping and grandstand close on 27 July and spectators can unlock a 10% discount and have Pit Stop enclosure passes for two people if joining the Goodwood Road Racing Club Fellowship. Toyota (GB) is strengthening its … [Read more...]
Goodwood Festival celebration
Commissioned as RAF Westhampnett 1940-46, the former WWII airfield morphed into the popular post war Goodwood racing circuit in 1948 before closing 1966. The inaugural Festival of Speed took place June 1993, an idea of the then Lord Charles March, now Duke of Richmond, and organized by the British Automobile Racing Club. Originally planned as a one-day … [Read more...]
Stars, cars, rain and sun – Goodwood FoS returned
Following its enforced 2020 sabbatical, the Mastercard Goodwood Festival of Speed returned with a bang – including daily pyrotechnics – last week after being chosen as a pilot event by the UK Government's Event Research Programme, writes Ken Davies. Adding credibility to this decision, the Right Hon Oliver Dowden MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media, … [Read more...]
Insurers are raising motor costs by stealth
Analysis of car insurance policies reveals that since 2012 admin fees have become more commonplace with charges increasing by twice the rate of inflation, but you'd hardly know about it. Cancellation fees have risen by 49% since 2012; Charges for mid-term policy alterations have increased by 38%; GoCompare Car Insurance urges drivers to … [Read more...]
Play the smart card to protect yourself
Play the "smart card" when buying a new car or bike and protect yourself from losing everything if a dealer goes bust or the vehicle is not what you expected. That’s the advice from the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers. Many buyers go for personal loans or pay entirely in cash but while that may appear cheaper you could lose … [Read more...]
