As promised, here at the video highlights from EngageSportMode’s weekend at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. I’m no Ron Howard, and was only using either an iPhone or fairly basic digital camera to record these. As such, the quality is not HD, but I feel it does still capture the noise and fury of the…
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ESM – Goodwood FoS Photo Blog #3 Saturday
Following a wet night, and resulting wet tent, ESM set off for a third day at Goodwood. Naturally, being the weekend, Saturday was far busier than the preceding two days. Whereas earlier access to cars was pretty much unfettered, Saturday meant queuing up to try to get photos or see things. ESM took a tactical…
ESM – Goodwood FoS Photo Blog #2 Friday
Friday is the first main day of the actual Festival of Speed. ESM spent the vast majority of it taking the long walk from the bottom of the paddock all the way to the rally-stage at the top of the hill. This is what we encountered along the way. So that is Friday’s action covered….
ESM – 2012 Goodwood FoS Photo Blog #1 Thursday
Whilst the Festival of Speed “proper” doesn’t begin until Friday, Thursday plays host to the Moving Motor Show event. Designed to let the public get up close and personal with a range of new cars from Skoda and SEAT to Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari. Of note were the BMW M5’s which seemed to rev and crackle…
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012 – The ESM Review
Now that my hearing has started to recover, the sunburn has begun to fade and the numerous pictures and videos have been uploaded, I can now begin to make sense of the previous four days. For the uninitiated, the Goodwood Festival of Speed (FoS) is an annual event which first began back in 1993. The…
Post Festival of Speed Note
Despite errant Sat Nav units, hot coffee in lap incidents and road closures, ESM has made it back home from Goodwood. A full write-up will follow tomorrow, along with lots of photos and video action. Check out the twitter feed for a sneaky, and orangey themed, preview.
Goodwood Festival of Speed
This weekend, EngageSportMode will be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Expect some live tweeting and photos (battery and 3G dependent) from across the four days, along with a full report and write up later. Unfortunately there’ll be no ESM roving photographer, but there will be ESM’s mate Dave. Keep an eye out; he’s very…
BTCC Week – More ESM at Oulton Park
With the sun burn now slowly (and painfully) turning to a rich golden brown, it’s time for Engage Sport Mode to reflect on just what happened at Oulton Park yesterday. The 2.26 mile Cheshire Circuit played host to rounds 10, 11 and 12 of this year’s British Touring Car Championship. The Yuasa Hondas of Matt Neal and…
Engage Sport Mode at BTCC – Oulton Park 10/06/2012
Today ESM spent many hours at the British Touring Car Championship at Oulton Park in Cheshire. Along with getting sun burnt, ESM also took a rather large number of photos before the iPhone battery cried enough. Yes I could have used a proper camera, but I didn’t. Here’s a selection of three photos . The…
Awkwardness Knows No Bounds
So the sixth Grand Prix of this years Formula 1 season was won by the sixth different driver. Unpredictable, chaotic and disordered, the 2012 championship is like shopping in Primark. Or Greece. The Monaco race also played host to an almighty gaffe on the part of Simon Lazenby who, if you’re unfamiliar, is the one…
So Good They Banned It – BMW M3 GTR
Back in 2001, BMW decided to take on Porsche once and for all. The stage was the American Le Mans series; an endurance racing competition run to the same rules as the annual 24 hours event. BMW had found the E46 M3 to be outgunned by the performance of the Porsche 911 GT3-RS. The standard…
Reigniting The Glory Days Of Williams F1
Pastor Maldonado’s victory today in the Spanish Grand Prix at Catalunya has a very tenuous link to this week’s BMW theme. Until today the last Williams win had been taken by Juan Pablo Montoya, in the teams BMW.WilliamsF1 phase, at Brazil in 2004. In addition, Maldonado is now the most successful Venezuelan F1 driver, overtaking…
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