Each year owners of vehicles from the pre-1966 period descend on Goodwood to display their treasures for the first two days, when visitors can take a good look at the cars. For the owners there is also the business of winning, after two days of qualifying and warming up, the third and final day of the event offered some surprisingly competitive races around the circuit.
This year event was blessed with fine weather, which meant the ground remained very dry and the Rola-Trac ground protection installation was relatively simple. Under the direction of Rola-Trac's Guy Wightman teams began on site two weeks prior to the opening of the races to install a helicopter-landing pad used by visitors to the event. The paddock area, which acted as the area for touring cars was then covered three days before the event with Supa-Trac, a fully portable medium duty roadway system.
Rola-Trac also installed 2m wide pathways across the site, ensuring three days of heavy foot traffic did not erode the ground, which may have been all important as to add to the ambience of the event, many visitors dress in pre-1966 attire. Other areas covered by Rola-Trac included the disabled access areas and the party entrance.
(Lee Baldock)
