The best thing about the Goodwood Festival of Speed is that it's just like F1 racing used to be.
Fans can gain access to the paddock and jostle shoulders with their heroes.
You don't find Dan Gurney and Emerson Fittipaldi signing autograph books only three feet away on every day of the week. More rubbish has been spoken and written in the wake of poor John Dawson-Damer's fatal accident at Goodwood last Saturday than for many a year. The fact of the matter is that racing cars are potentially very dangerous pieces of equipment and that, even in the well ordered circumstances which prevail today, things can sometimes go catastrophically wrong. It is a dangerous illusion to try convincing people that our sport can ever be made totally secure. But the point is that Dawson-Damer was there, doing what he loved, absolutely from his own choice.