Anyone that knows me knows that I’m a big fan of cars – new, old, fast, slow, big, or small. I’ve a special fondness for the Mazda MX-5, and am now on my third one. You can see it in the post Happy Birthday Little MX-5 and more MX-5’s photographed at last years in the post MX-5 Owners Club National Rally.
So when Mazda ran a competition for tickets for the Goodwood Festival of Speed I had to enter… and won! This was made even better by Mazda being the main event sponsor and launching the new (mk4) MX-5 in the UK.
All of the major car manufacturers were there, as well as areas for racing and F1 cars, old classic cars, and of course the Goodwood hill climb. On the day I went it was possible to get passenger rides in all sorts of cars up the hill climb. But not for me. It seems for most of them you needed to register beforehand. A lesson for next time!
It was an expensive day too. As much as I was tempted, I didn’t buy a new car. But trying to get photos correctly framed in between the crowds of people with a high quality prime lens made me realise I needed a better quality short range zoom lens. So as a result of the day I ended up buying a new Olympus 12-40mm lens. Future blogs will feature photos taken with that lens.
