ONE BIG PARTY; Celebrating Historic Motorsports.(News)

My how things change. The Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lord Charles March's little garden party for a few of his friends, has grown since 1993 into a historic racing extravaganza attracting 150,000 spectators per day over three days. The festival, ostensibly a hillclimb, uses the front yard and driveway of Goodwood House, ancestral home of the Earl of March, known simply as Charley to his pals.

This year's theme was Racing Colors (or, ah, Colours), meant to celebrate how different car cultures reflect national character. And we're talking real variety here. Drivers such as Stirling ...

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