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Shame as its a fab day out. Brings in thousands to the local economy too.
Strong winds gusting to 40knots is probably the reason.
Gutted for all the ticket holders as its alot of money, and if you bough a 3 day ticket friday was perma rain so fun at all.
Blimey!
Thursday was sold out (which never happens) and the roads round here were carnage (I live nearby). I guess that was the smart folk getting a visit in before the rain and wind!
Really. I was there yesterday till 7pm. It was getting pretty wet mind and several cars were struggling to leave the car park (probably the real reason for cancellation TBF.
Hey??! What! I'm meant to be taking family on Sunday! Need to check
Yeah, just got the email..boo
i can imagine all the gazebos with billion dollar HyperCars underneath them flying away…into the screen of another billion dollar hypercar…..
DrP
https://www.goodwood.com/motorsport/festival-of-speed/plan-your-day/faqs/
It's cancelled Saturday only. Saturday tickets unfortunately cannot be used for Sunday.
Fingers crossed it will be ok for us on Sunday. Gutted for those Saturday tickets holders
Pretty sure it will be car park carnage which is the reason for cancellation. Thats normally what results in horse events getting cancelled. If cars are going to get stuck, they'll be getting stuck going in and end up with the whole area grinding to a halt.
With hardline and FOS cancelled, do I need to cancel lighting the pizza oven today? What on earth am I going to do with my time.
I cancelled my annual garden party today too, there isn't room enough for everyone to stand in my shed 😢
I assume it must be largely to do with the amount of trees over the area.
It’s unusual to get high winds when trees are in full leaf. Don’t want any squished people
And getting cars out of the car parks… but that doesn’t explain that they still intend to open tomorrow
Not that windy at the moment, walked on beach earlier. Its often worse down here
Sad but sensible decision.
Yeah, gutted as my son and I have tickets for today. Sensible decision though and no other option for the organisers at this time of year.
Yak... Wanna watch me race my Nissan leaf up dyke road avenue in Hove?
I reckon I could top out at 36mph...traffic depending...
DrP
Was supposed to be there today. Gutted! I think my son is even more gutted…
Awesome, DrP's ev hill climb challenge. I'm in. I might struggle to hit 30mph in the old van, but hey ev's usually win the hill climb nowadays.
As of now, 1000am, wrong decision imo.
Yes its blustery on the coast but nothing excessive. Zero rain today so far. Suns out, its warm with some cloud cover.
I blame the where there is blame there's a claim culture. This is the reward you get for sueing everyone left, right and centre.
I may change my mind after lunch, or after going through the washing machine during my afternoon windsurfing session but as of now... Be ok
A bucketlist event for me still not made it yet. Shame but I suppose the organisers dont want to risk fly gazebos hitting people/multi million pound cars. The weather gods are usually kind to Goodwood events too. Was frustrating watching some of the tiptoeing up the hill on yesterday would love to see the Radford given the proper beans
As of now, 1000am, wrong decision imo
If only the organisers had the foresight to have hindsight .
And a De lorean equipped with a flux capacitor
Or a tardis
Or a crystal ball
The met office always makes the coastal forecast worse than reality over the weekend to put off joe public going out to sea in unsuitable inflatables.
Having said that, just nipped down the beach, yes its chuffing windy, and its forecast to get even stronger
You can’t be too careful these days, there are only so many ‘where there’s blame, there’s a claim’ lawyers out there you know.
@halifaxpete bugger didn't think of you Pete as I gave 2 tickets away that I was donated from a customer who couldn't go .
Was going to go myself but with it been late notice getting digs was proving difficult kind of glad I didn't now
I assume it must be largely to do with the amount of trees over the area
This is my opinion too. It was less windy than this last week and big chunks of oak have been closing the roads here near goodwood. Nipped to the shops this morning and chose a longer route specifically to avoid the risk of big pieces of tree landing on my head. A neighbor was killed a couple of years ago.
I was near Gosport most of this morning and it was absolutely howling.
There are a lot of gazebos and temporary structures at FOS and the potential with 40+mph winds for some damage or injury presumably has to be factored in and documented in a risk assessment.
What they clearly couldn't do is open then find that the wind has picked up to the forecast 40+mph and have to try and clear the site. That's the bit people sometimes forget.
Just looked at the data on Chimet and gusts have been spiking at over 40kts - so about 50mph from mid morning.
If only the organisers had the foresight to have hindsight .
Hindsight is, after all, 20:20 vision…
Over here in N. Wiltshire it’s been pretty gusty at times, particularly this morning. I’ve got no telly at the moment to check out local BBC news, so I don’t know if there’s been any real damage from downed trees or not, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Was in Brighton this evening and between the buildings on the seafront you can hardly walk.
As we got near Brighton a fire engine that had been following us turned it's lights on and overtook, a 200 year old grade II listed hotel on the seafront had just caught fire as we passed. The wind has got hold of it and 4 hours later it's well alight, I expect it'll burn to the ground with the wind feeding it. 15 fire engines on scene.
I postponed my sail to Weymouth. Gusting 30 knots in Southampton reckon that would have been 40kn at the Needles. My fish and chips can wait till tomorrow!
I was there Thursday. Looks like we lucked out with the best weather. Fabulous day out for my lad and I.
Glad to hear you were here Thursday for a good day out Tony. Sorry for those that couldn’t enjoy it today. And i think the Sunday crowd should be alright. I’m one of the local crowd pleased that we host a great event (let’s not mention the local grumblers).
I was there Thursday- great fun.
Any news on the stray jag wheel that launched into the crowd? <!--more--> https://imgur.com/gallery/skEwRlX