ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 4-9-2006

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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For the past eight years, at the beginning of September, tens of thousands of people dress up in vintage clothing and make their way to a green and affluent corner of West Sussex to look at old cars hurtle round a track that ceased to be a competitive racing circuit in 1966. This event, the subject of this week's picture set, is the Goodwood Revival and it has become one of the most colourful occasions in the contemporary English social calendar. The Revival is the most popular historic motor race meeting in the world and great care is taken to create an authentic period atmosphere. Nothing on the site, so far as can be helped, looks as though it were built after 1966. That certainly applies to the Earl of March, the dashing toff behind the event and who owns the Goodwood course and most of the surrounding countryside. His boyhood dream had been to bring back to life the golden age of British motor racing. Last weekend, for him and thousands of others, it came true again.

Looking at a pre-1939 car heading for Madgwick Corner on the circuit (image 2690-1)

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