goodwood the season

Spring / Summer 2011

Telegraph magazine

THE SEASON

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The latest developments from around the estate

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Hermès’ heritage of equine craftsmanship {fig.2}

1 4 / e q u i n e a e s t h e t i c s

There’s a special exhibition at Goodwood this year

1 8 / s k y h i g h

If you’re learning to fly, train with the best

2 0 / c l a s s i c , d e f i n e d

A celebration of Jaguar’s iconic E-Type

2 2 / t o u c h o f g e n i u s

Meet Apple’s prodigal designer, Jonathan Ive

2 4 / g o l f t o t h e f o r e

Golf at Goodwood tops the leaderboard

2 7 / c u t t i n g a d a s h

Goodwood’s new glamorous event on Ladies’ Day

3 2 / h i t t h e g a s

High adrenalin with Goodwood Action Sports

3 4 / t i m e c a p s u l e

Buckminster Fuller’s extraordinary Dymaxion car

3 7 / f i a t l u x e

The Fiat 500 gets the Gucci treatment

4 0 / t h e a r t o f f o o d

A tour around Goodwood’s artisan farm shop

4 2 / l o o k b a c k i n s t y l e

Where to find your perfect revival outfit

4 4 / f l i g h t p a t h s

Why the Spitfire’s popularity endures {fig.3}

4 6 / d r i v e t i m e

The historic link between cars and watches

4 8 / s u m m e r b r e e z e

Radiant summer dresses in chiffon and lace {fig.1}

5 8 / a r a c i n g p u l s e

Profile of motoring legend Lord Freddie March

CONTENTS

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EDITOR’S LETTER

Goodwood has been my family’s home for more than 300 years and we are

immensely proud and delighted to be able to share it with all those who

visit the numerous events we hold throughout the year.

The 2011 Season promises to be a very exciting one, with a host

of first-class experiences to fuel a variety of passions.

This year’s Festival of Speed, 30 June to 3 July, will once again bring

together the greatest cars and stars of the automotive world, with our

2011 theme ‘Racing Revolutions’ celebrating the ceaseless quest for

increased power, greater efficiency and more speed.

At the end of July, the Racecourse hosts Glorious Goodwood, always

a highlight of the summer sporting and social calendar. The five-day

festival attracts thousands with its wonderful mix of world-class racing

and English summer glamour.

In September, I will be hosting the 14th Goodwood Revival, and the

passion to recreate the golden age of motor sport is just as strong now as

ever, with the Revival uniquely bringing together the exhilarating thrill

of highly competitive racing (in the world’s most valuable cars) and the

fashions, feel and fun of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties.

I do hope you enjoy these pages and we look forward to welcoming you

all to Goodwood very soon.

EDITORIAL

Executive editor Earl of March

Editor-in-chief Peter Howarth

Deputy editor Sarah Deeks

Chief copy editor Chris Madigan

Copy editors Sarah Evans,

Steven East, Tanya Jackson

Editorial director Joanne Glasbey

DESIGN

Senior art director Ciara Walshe

Picture editor Juliette Hedoin

Designer Hillary Jayne

Creative director Ian Pendleton

MARKETING

Marketing director Tracey Greaves

COMMERCIAL

Executive director Dave King

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4 . M a k i n g T r a c k s

Three new jockeys will take to Goodwood’s

racecourse in June, but you won’t catch them

on horseback. DJs Boy George, Chris Evans and

Mark Ronson will be spinning the decks from

the centre of the parade ring for three Friday

nights in June, in an explosive concoction

of music, racing and dancing. Boy George kicks

off on 3 June, Chris Evans is on 10 June, with

a grand finale from Mark Ronson on 17 June.

goodwood.com/horse-racing/three-friday-nights

2 . s T a y s T y l i s h

The Goodwood Hotel is situated at the heart

of the Sussex Downs estate, surrounded by

12,000 acres of spectacular English countryside.

It’s an ideal spot to retreat to after a day at the

races, with an on-site health club, with leisure

and spa facilities including an extensive list of

facials and body treatments. There are 25 rooms

and suites recently refurbished by interior

designer Cindy Leveson, so you can kick back

in style. goodwood.com/hotel

1 . O p e n - a i r g a l l e r y

Twenty-six acres of estate grounds play host

to a varied and constantly evolving collection of

sculptures, commissioned by the Cass Sculpture

Foundation. Committed to advancing both

established and emerging talent, the foundation

funds 20 to 30 new works each year, all of which

can be bought, with the proceeds going directly

to the artists. Open to the public until the end

of October 2011. goodwood.com/sculpture

3 . T a k e a h i k e

The best way to enjoy the beauty of the West

Sussex countryside is by foot, and there are

some attractive walks through the fields and

woodland of the Goodwood Estate. Take a trip

up to the Iron Age hill fort known as ‘the

Trundle’ on St. Roche’s Hill, from which point

you can see for miles. Guests of Goodwood can

obtain a GoodWalks map that marks out several

routes across the estate; dogs are welcome.

goodwood.com/goodwood-estate/walking

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Hermès may be one of the most revered

names in fashion but, when it was founded in

1837, it was a saddlery. Today, craftspeople

at the Rue Faubourg St-Honoré atelier

still painstakingly produce a limited number

of beautiful equestrian pieces in the finest

leathers, such as this ‘Brasilia’ showjumping

saddle in Sokoa tan buffalo hide, £3,910.

hermes.com

SADDLE UPPHOTOGR A PH Y M AT T H E W D O N A L D S O N


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F r o m p r e h i s t o r i c times to our current digital age, the image

of the horse has occupied a central role in art history. Horses dominate

the Paleolithic wall paintings at Lascaux, they animate the Parthenon and

have been used by artists throughout the centuries to echo and to amplify

the spirit of the monarchs, nobles and generals they carry. In Van Dyck’s

equestrian portrait of the self-effacing Charles I, it is the muscular

magnificence of the mount rather than the monarch’s demeanor that

communicates kingly grandeur, while Jacques-Louis David depicted

Napoleon as a triumphant tornado storming across Europe, his ferocious

energy accentuated courtesy of his rearing, snarling steed, Marengo.

A more sedate form of power is conveyed by the portrayal of handsome

hunters and horses owned by 18th-century English gentry, immortalised in

the work of artists such as John Wootten and, most notably, George Stubbs

{fig.1, ‘Racehorses Exercising at Goodwood’}. The lure of racing continues in

the work of Degas, Sir Alfred Munnings and John Skeaping, to name but a few.

For even as the developed world has ceased to run on horsepower,

equestrian images have continued to exert a strong presence in the world

equine aesthetics

W o r d s l o u i s A b u c k

the horse has provided inspiration to artists for millennia and, this summer, Goodwood

celebrates its collection of rare equestrian paintings

of art. It was through the form of a grotesquely twisted horse that Pablo

Picasso chose to convey the agony of human suffering in his 1937 ‘Guernica’,

while more recently Richard Prince in his ‘Cowboy’ and ‘Marlboro Men’

series of the Eighties employed the iconography of man and horse to

critique the advertising industry’s appropriation of heroic symbolism for

less lofty ends. The horse as signifier has also fascinated Turner Prize-

winning artist and racing enthusiast Mark Wallinger, whose equine

explorations have included a photographic light box which transforms

Stubbs’ iconic painting of Whistlejacket into a unicorn; a series of

life-sized paintings of thoroughbred stallions entitled ‘Race Class Sex’,

and, most provocatively, his acquisition of a thoroughbred mare which he

then registered and ran in the 1994 flat season under the name of ‘A Real

Work of Art’. Artistic horsepower, indeed.

The Horse, an exhibition of rare equestrian paintings from Goodwood’s private

collection, runs throughout the summer. goodwood.com/whatson/events/the-horse

Louisa Buck is contemporary art correspondent for the Art Newspaper

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I t I s o f t e n the most fleeting of

experiences that stick indelibly in the memory,

which is probably why I’ll never forget taking off

from Goodwood airfield a few years ago in the back

seat of a North American Harvard, the aeroplane

in which countless wartime pilots cut their teeth.

The flight was short – it lasted less than

20 minutes – but bumping along the grass airstrip

and climbing into the light mist that draped

Goodwood House before heading out across

Chichester towards the Solent was spine-tinglingly

evocative. Just for a few seconds, I believe I had

an inkling of what those WWII fly boys must

have felt like every time they set off on a mission.

Although it was an important relief base for

RAF Tangmere and served five fighter squadrons,

Goodwood is not just about wartime nostalgia. It

has a 21st-century role as the home of one of the

most highly regarded flying schools in the country.

Enrolling on a training course to secure a

private pilot’s licence (PPL) has never been more

popular than at the moment, but many pupils

are unwittingly hampered from the outset by

mediocre instruction and out-of-date aircraft –

rather like learning to drive in a clapped-out car

with dodgy brakes and a crunchy gearbox.

‘Not only are old aircraft potentially unreliable

and expensive to maintain,’ says Goodwood

airfield’s general manager, Rob Wildeboer, ‘they

can reduce the enjoyment of learning to fly and

therefore make it more difficult to achieve the

aim of obtaining a PPL. It’s for that reason we

decided to make the significant investment

required to buy five new Cessnas – the 172 SP

is the most popular light aircraft ever built and

the fact that it is stable, rugged, reliable and

predictable makes it the perfect trainer plane,’

adds Wildeboer.

The Cessna 172 SP aircraft are so-called

‘glass cockpit’ aeroplanes. That means instead

of a bank of old-fashioned analogue instruments,

you’ll find state-of-the-art flat screens housing

Garmin 1000 avionics, with autopilots and

collision avoidance systems.

Before taking the plunge and enrolling for

lessons, it is worth taking a ‘familiarisation’

flight to see if you really do have the flying bug.

At Goodwood, this costs £122 for half an hour

in the air, or £245 for one hour.

The next step is to pass the required PPL

medical before committing to a full course of

lessons that will enable you to build up to the

45 hours of logged flying time that is required

before taking the final tests and examinations.

‘In the early stages, learning to fly is all

about continuity,’ explains Wildeboer. ‘Here in

the UK we are rather at the mercy of the

weather, so most people start lessons in the

spring in the hope that they can log their hours

by the autumn. Some learn intensively and do

the whole thing in a couple of months. It all

depends on availability and, of course, finances.’

Goodwood flying school offers a full PPL

‘package’ for £9,865, including the joining fee

for the thriving aero club that currently has 800

members, around 250 of whom are active fliers.

The package takes pupils to the point where

they can take the ground exams, plus the flying

elements, including take-off, landing and dealing

with a stall. In addition, the pupil must prove his

or her navigational skills by completing a solo

cross-country flight (landing at different airfields).

Although you need to be 17 years of age to

drive in the UK, it is legal to obtain a PPL and go

solo at just 16 – and to log flying time towards

a PPL from the even more tender age of 14.

‘We have pupils of just about all ages,’ says

Wildboer. ‘The oldest is an 84-year-old who has

just converted from a tail-dragger plane to one

with a nose wheel. It really is true when people

say that almost anyone can learn to fly.’

goodwood.co.uk/aviation

Simon de Burton writes about motoring and aviation

for the Daily Telegraph and GQ magazine

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I t ’ s n o t for nothing that the E-Type {fig.1} holds a permanent

place in New York’s museum of Modern Art. The design’s enduring appeal

and iconic status are a result of its dramatic proportion and the total

purity in its execution. Aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer employed a

uniquely scientific method of design, which involved the use of slide rules

and logarithmic tables to plot the complex curves and straight lines that

gelled so harmoniously to create not just the E-Type but its C-Type and

D-Type racing predecessors. Sayer wasn’t driven by aesthetics for the sake

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classic, definedFifty years after the feline E-Type first prowled on to the street, it is still for many people the

archetypal classic car. Jaguar’s current design director Ian Callum celebrates an icon

of it, he was trying to build something that was shaped by mathematics. The

thrill and aesthetic of the car were almost created as a by-product. You’ve

got beauty derived from its scientific purity of surface and excitement from

its proportions. And the E-Type has come to not only symbolise that

beauty and excitement, but also the pure pleasure of driving.

Ian Callum has been Design Director of Jaguar since 1999, and is responsible

for the XF – which has garnered over 80 industry awards – as well as the S-Type,

XJ and others. Prior to this, he also designed the Aston Martin DB7 and Vanquish


J o n a t h a n I v e turned a base MP3 player

into industrial gold. Jony, as his friends know him,

was born in Chingford, Essex, in 1967. He is polite,

enthusiastic, self-deprecating, articulate and very

smart. And he is perhaps Apple’s greatest asset.

Ive moved to California in 1992 and toiled in

a struggling business. Five years later Steve Jobs

returned to the company he had founded and was

desperate for invigorating novelty. Jobs interviewed

the celebrity designers of the day: Ettore Sottsass,

Giorgetto Giugiaro and Richard Sapper. Instead,

he found Ive {fig.1} in-house and kept him there.

Slowly at first, but then ever more quickly, Ive

oversaw the introduction of new products that

redefined consumer expectations. Jobs says you

know a design is good if you want to lick it and,

one assumes, a great deal of licking takes place

at Apple headquarters in Cupertino.

But what’s interesting is the way Ive achieves

this. He does not start out to make a slick package.

Instead, he wants to understand the expressive

limits of materials. He understands coatings,

milling, forging, moulding and bonding.

Ive believes if you know how something is made,

you understand everything about it: ‘I’ve always

been fascinated by the old-school approach to

making things. Take stainless steel: you can

transform it from a modest material to a thing of

beauty by a process. I find that inspiring.’

This is what the consumer intuits: an Apple

product is, at least until its successor, the ultimate

expression of contemporary possibilities. Perfection

may be difficult, but Ive says: ‘You can reach a

point where you cannot use resources any better.’

I asked Jony if there was such a subject as

design and he said: ‘The problem with the word

“design” is that it means so much and it means

so little. I always struggle to define it. It’s an

activity more than an end result.’

I also wondered how he reconciles a personal

passion for extravagant cars with his disciplined

aesthetic? Ive explained: ‘Cars of the Fifties and

Sixties had a fluency about how materials should

best be used. Look at a Jaguar and you’ll see the

dashboard was a flat wooden plank. Look inside

a typical modern car and ask yourself, why is it

like that? To say “I like it” is just not good enough.’

Cars provide another creative metaphor: ‘We

control fuel injection by the use of an accelerator

pedal. That’s similar to the designer’s role. It’s

the responsibility of the designer to make things

simple and comprehensible.’

A billion happy Apple consumers in thrall to Ive

demonstrate what aesthetes and ideologues have

struggled to prove: beautiful, intelligent products

sell. The consumer is not a moron, after all.

Arthur C. Clarke said that any technology,

sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from

magic. According to Ive, ‘When we were developing

the iPad, we spoke in exactly those terms!’

Still, not everything in Jony’s world is

perfect. After this conversation I sent him a

thank-you message from my iPad and the

infuriating autocorrect system made him I’ve.

Writer and broadcaster Stephen Bayley was the

founding director of the Design Museum, London

TOUCH OF GENIUS

W o r d s S T E P H E n B AY L E Y

What does Jonathan Ive – Apple maverick and one of this year’s judges of Cartier’s

concours d’elegance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed – believe makes good design?

We control fuel injection with an accelerator pedal. That’s similar to

the designer’s role

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A s o n e o f the first club professionals to

make the transition from the pro shop to full-time

club management, Eddie Bullock is acknowledged

as a pioneer. A non-executive director of golf at

Goodwood since 2009, his 40-year career has

included a decade as managing director of Woburn

Golf Club, where he oversaw the construction of

the highly rated Marquess Course and helped to

run major tournaments such as the British Masters.

Earlier this year, Eddie, who runs his own golf

management consultancy, was appointed captain

of the Professional Golfers Association, the highest

accolade for a British pro.

Previous captains of the PGA have included

Open Championship winners such as James

Braid, Harry Vardon and Henry Cotton. You

must feel very proud…

EB: I feel very flattered and proud, and to be

included in that bracket is a huge privilege. For

the next two years, I will be representing the PGA’s

7,500 members in the UK and in an ambassadorial

role overseas. We need to grow the interest in

the game at home, improve the education of our

members and increase opportunities for their

personal development. We are in competition

with other sports and other facilities. We need

to start making golf fun.

How are you going about that at Goodwood?

EB: We’ve got to open ourselves up as a game.

At Goodwood, we have changed the pricing

structure so that more people have an

opportunity to enjoy the game. A credit system

has been introduced to encourage people to

enjoy our five-star environment at a fairly low

cost. You can join the club for just under £400,

then the value of your credits is based on when

you play. So if you play at a peak time it’s going

to cost more, which means you can play golf to

suit your lifestyle. What we also offer at Goodwood

is unbeatable customer service.

The recently renovated Downs Course is

described as one of the best downland courses

in the UK. What makes it so special?

EB: I’m a great believer that the golf course is

your theatre, and we have two high-quality

courses here at Goodwood. The design of the

Downs Course {fig.1} blends in perfectly with

the surrounding scenery, with valleys framed

by the rolling hills of the South Downs. It is also

designed for players of all abilities. Howard Swan

has redesigned seven holes, but the rest of the

course is more or less the same as the original

James Braid layout from 1914.

And the Park Course, designed by another

renowned golf course architect, Donald Steel?

EB: That was opened in 1989 and, although less

challenging than the Downs, it’s an excellent test

of golf. It’s a classic tree-lined parkland course.

There are some wonderful holes too, including

the long 5th with a beautiful old oak tree on the

right-hand side as you approach the green.

Do you have a favourite hole on either course?

EB: The 7th on The Downs Course is one of

Braid’s originals, one of his classic dog-legs, but

with wonderful scenery that means on a clear

day you can look across the Solent towards the

Isle of White. On The Park Course, the 8th is

a wonderful par three. The green is elevated and

can be very deceptive, because it plays at least

20 yards longer than it says on the card.

So, does your role as Captain of the PGA take

you to the big events?

EB: I attended this year’s Masters and will be

also at the other majors. When Charl Schwartzel

made his winner’s speech at Augusta, he thanked

all those who had encouraged him: his father,

Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Gary Player. It was a

simple message: everybody in the game has a

responsibility to get more people involved.

Dan Davies is a contributing editor to Esquire and

writes a regular style column for Mr Porter

From the dog-leg 7th hole on the

Downs Course, you can look across to the Isle of Wight

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Golf to the fore

W o r d s D A N D A V I E S

Golf at Goodwood’s Eddie Bullock has been appointed captain of the PGA,

and in both roles he has big plans to make the game more accessible


I S I t p o S S I b L E for Glorious Goodwood to attain any more

kudos than it already enjoys? In particular, could Ladies’ Day – famed

among the cognoscenti for being the day to see and be seen – become any

more chic? Well, yes, apparently it can, because this year’s internationally

feted, five-day horse-racing event will stage a new and, let’s face it,

exceptionally glamorous Ladies’ Race.

This surprise bonus on Goodwood’s regular race card aims to raise

close to £400,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital and will feature an

impressive posse of high-profile women. Some of them will be occupied

behind the scenes as silk designers, trainers and grooms, while others

will be jockeys. To keep to the feminine theme, even the horses will be

fillies and mares. The unique race, which will run over six furlongs on the

flat and straight, will dovetail nicely after the third race, the Artemis

Goodwood Cup, and the fourth, which is the Moët Hennessy Fillies’ Stakes.

Fingers crossed for clear heads and gathered wits, because the night

before the big race will see Goodwood House playing host to a charity

Race Week Ball to honour the commitment (and, some might add,

courage) of these exceptional ladies.

Before the flag goes up, we speak to three of the ladies who will play

an important part in the race to find out what made them say ‘yes’.

Cutting a dash

W o r d s B e l i n d a M o r r i s

Ladies’ Day has long been a highlight of Glorious Goodwood. This year, a very special and

ultra-feminine race is set to raise money for an excellent cause

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Daniell a issa Hel ayel Who better to design

the silks for the Ladies’ Race jockeys than

designer and founder of the couture house

Issa London, Daniella Issa Helayel, whose

midnight blue Issa dress was worn by Catherine

Middleton to announce her engagement to

Prince William?

While Daniella and her team are used to

working with silk jersey and silk twill for her

own collections, this project was never likely to

be within their comfort zone. ‘Issa collections

are filled with bright colours and strong prints,

but working on these silks was definitely a fresh

challenge,’ she explains. ‘We opted for patterns

that are more extravagant and exaggerated than

our usual collections, generally seen parading

a catwalk, restaurant or nightclub on the Issa

woman rather than racing past at 40mph!’

Clearly, the purpose of jockey silks is not the

same as the dresses Issa usually creates for its

A-list clients. Brazilian-born Daniella’s approach

in the print design had to focus on the required

shape and therefore where to place the design.

‘I wanted to use strong, bright colours and prints

to steal the show during the race,’ she says. ‘I

feel sometimes that we live in a greyish-toned

world; I like my world to be colourful, uplifting

and joyful, and that’s the effect my prints have.

I hope to bring even more colour and thrill to

what promises to be a very exciting day.

‘Great Ormond Street Hospital is also such

a truly great cause, so I was delighted to be a part

of it and to offer the help of Issa however we

could,’ adds Daniella. She is also thrilled to be

involved with the Ladies’ Race: ‘It’s all about

women and the philosophy of Issa dresses has

always been to enhance a woman’s figure so

that she can embrace her femininity and enjoy

being a woman.’

K ate silverton Without pausing to consider

what she might be asked to do, BBC One news

anchor and presenter Kate Silverton immediately

replied ‘of course’ to Lord March’s request for

her to be involved with the Ladies’ Race. ‘I love

horseracing and being around horses. Given

that Glorious Goodwood is a wonderful event in

the sporting calendar – with astonishingly good

racing, in such beautiful surroundings – I was

thrilled to be asked,’ she says.

She also has a personal reason for wanting

to participate in the charity event: ‘The daughter

of one of my close friends was treated for cancer

at Great Ormond Street, and this is a perfect way

to raise money for such a good cause,’ she adds.

A regular race-goer – as much for the people-

watching as the action on the track – Kate, who

recently announced her pregnancy, is fascinated

by all that goes into the sport. ‘I’ve been getting

tips on lots of different aspects of racing from

people in the know: Clare Balding for one. I want

to ensure that I do Great Ormond Street proud.’

Kate is no stranger to the odd challenging

assignment for a deserving charity – singing her

heart out while in fancy dress for Children in

Need comes up pretty high on the ‘over-the-top’

gauge. Although Kate would love to be riding

in the Ladies’ Race, she will be putting her

trademark enthusiasm and cheer into whatever

role she is asked to fulfil on the day.

l aur a BecHtolsHeimer When she received

a letter from Lord March asking whether she would

like to be involved in the Ladies’ Race, Laura

Bechtolsheimer, leading British dressage rider,

didn’t hesitate. ‘It’s a really great idea, so I rang his

office straight away and agreed,’ she says.

Is this the reaction of a girl who knows a

thing or two about the sport of kings and is up

for a challenge? Well, right on the second point,

but pretty wide of the mark on the first. ‘I know

absolutely nothing about racing,’ she laughs.

‘I have friends in the racing world who will be

able to give me a few tips, but that’s about it.

I’m going to have to do a lot of homework.’

Laura is hoping for a few pointers from her

father, who is also a dressage rider but used to

race when he was younger. ‘When I told my dad

what I had agreed to do, all he said was to make

sure that I got the fastest horse.’

With her own season having just started, Laura

will struggle to find any time at all to train in what

will be a completely different discipline for her.

‘Racehorses are a lot finer and shorter than

dressage horses, although they do have the same

frisky temperament,’ she explains. ‘The tack, such

as the shorter stirrups and very different saddle,

will also take some getting used to. It’s all quite

a new experience, a huge shock to the system, and

I probably won’t be able to walk the next day.’

Nevertheless, Laura is up for the challenge.

‘It’s an opportunity to do something different in

the equine world,’ she says. ‘At the same time, I can

get involved in a worthwhile cause. All I hope is

that I don’t make a fool of myself and fall off!’

The Ladies’ Race, will take place on Glorious

Goodwood’s Ladies’ Day, Thursday 28 July

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writer and editor

The silks for this race are by Issa,who designed the

engagement dress for Catherine Middleton

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With a receipt for brandy given to the players

back in 1702, Goodwood’s legendary cricket

ground can support its claim to be the second

oldest in England. It’s near enough a priceless

antique, lovingly tended to day-in, day-out by

expert groundskeepers who brave all weathers

to protect its legacy. But for a few days this

summer, those groundskeepers will be off

nervously swigging stiff drinks, looking the

other way and praying hard. That’s because this

year’s Festival of Speed welcomes the first ever

Goodwood Action Sports event, presented by

SEAT and taking place right on top of that famous

outfield, which will be transformed into a play

pen for the planet’s finest two-wheeled action

sportsmen, including BMX riders and freestyle

motocross (FMX) performers.

‘With both the main festival and the Junior

Festival of Speed, we’ve always done a lot for

adults and young children,’ explains Goodwood’s

Gary Axon. ‘For 2011 we wanted to pull out all

the stops for teenagers, too, which is what led

us to create GAS.’

GAS runs throughout the festival, with an

hour-long event each morning and afternoon.

Obstacles, jumps, rails and ramps will host hare-

brained action as pro riders attempt to out-trick one

another without breaking their necks. The daily

finale will be a breathtaking (and as yet unproven)

spectacle: ‘We’ll have the very best guys from all

the events in mid-air at the same time,’ says

Axon. ‘It’ll be a bit like The Red Arrows… on acid.’

With support from Red Bull, Goodwood is

delivering a stellar cast of riders to ensure GAS’s

inaugural year is a success. Among them, Australian

FMX rider, daredevil and record-breaker Robbie

Maddison will be throttling his bike into airborne

ballet across giant jumps, along with Brit FMX star,

Jamie Squibb. YouTube sensation and Scottish

street trials pro mountain bike rider Danny

MacAskill {fig.1} promises to rewrite the rules

of pedal-powered stunts; also in BMX, British

brothers Kye and Leo Forte are aiming to show

why grown men really can ride tiny bikes, while

Goodwood favourite and world champion trials

rider Dougie Lampkin returns to defy gravity,

and belief, clambering up, down, under and over

obstacles that might otherwise seem impossible.

Alongside all the extreme action happening

outside, there’s also the SEAT Clubhouse at GAS,

with console gaming, DJs and more, as well as

the opportunity for teenagers (even those without

a licence) to get behind the wheel of a SEAT Ibiza

under supervision at the Goodwood racecourse.

GAS looks set to deliver the ultimate in

extreme two-wheel action for the FoS crowds.

Still, you can’t help but wonder: does the owner

of this glorious estate, the Duke of Richmond,

really know the full extent of what’s being done

to his beloved cricket pitch this year?

GAS is at the Goodwood Cricket Ground during the

FoS, 30 June to 3 July. Tickets for those aged 13 to

18 are half price; goodwood.co.uk

Gavin Brett is a men’s magazine journalist who

specialises in motoring and technology

‘We’ll have the very best guys from all the events, BMX,

FMX etc, in mid-air at the same time

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t h e d y m a x i o n has to be the weirdest

car you will ever see. An utterly faithful, fully

functional recreation of the original has been

commissioned by world-famous architect Lord

Foster, and built by Crosthwaite & Gardiner, the

leading specialists in this line of work. It will be

a participant in the Cartier ‘Style et Luxe’

automobile concours d’elegance at Goodwood’s

Festival of Speed this year.

If a car designer built a house, what would it

be like? I envisage a huge, luxurious garage with

just a small flat above to live in. The Dymaxion

{fig.1}, on the other hand, is a car designed by

an architect. Its creator was the eccentric but

visionary American architect, Buckminster

Fuller (aka ‘Bucky’), who turned his mind to

motoring 80 years ago. The result is a sci-fi

fantasy from a different age. But don’t laugh –

the Dymaxion car is no joke and it has a message

of powerful relevance today.

In 1933, when no one else had thought about

‘green’ issues, Bucky sought to champion

sustainability: his famous geodesic dome was

created as a housing solution that minimised

heat loss and materials. He introduced the

highly influential school of thought known as

‘synergetics’ – a process by which parts interact

both independently and with each other. Bucky

set out to build the world’s most fuel-efficient

motor car and created the Dymaxion, which

could go at least twice as far on a gallon of

petrol as any other car with a similar engine.

It also a great deal faster, despite having a huge

and very comfortable interior.

The secret was in the aerodynamics. The shape

he came up with resembled an aircraft fuselage

without wings. Although the Dymaxion was

powered by a large, side-valve V8 engine, it delivered

a remarkable 35mpg. As for performance, Fuller’s

claims were extravagant but it’s definitely quick

enough to cruise comfortably with the faster

traffic on motorways today.

It was a remarkable technical achievement

but Fuller aimed yet higher. He built a series of

three prototypes and planned an even more

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off the road at speed. Setting off, it would be

steered normally but, as the speed built up, the

rear would rise up into the air and steering would

be by a rudder on the tail, like a light aircraft.

That model was never built. Lord Foster’s

Dymaxion is a recreation of an earlier prototype

but the technical details are still utterly

astonishing. It’s a rear-engined three-wheeler

with front-wheel drive and rear-wheel steering.

It’s 20 feet long and can turn round in its own

length. Driving this bizarre machine is very

different from driving any other car, of any age.

The pedals, steering wheel and dashboard

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your mind before taking a spin in a Dymaxion.

For one thing, there is no steering feel

whatsoever in the cable-driven system and there

are 12 turns from lock to lock. At speed, The

Dymaxion is surprisingly stable and very little

steering input is required but, to repeat Fuller’s

favourite party trick and turn round in a narrow

street, you must slow right down before twirling

the wheel, rather like a boat – and round it goes

in the most amazing way. The driver must pay

great attention to which way the rear wheel is

pointing before setting off, otherwise the tail

could swing out instantly, with disastrous results.

By modern standards, there are serious flaws

in basic safety and the average motorist would

probably get into deep trouble. A sudden

cross-wind at speed is not a happy thought but

Fuller’s astonishing automotive vision from

1933 still has the power to make us think.

As a young man, Norman Foster collaborated

with Buckminster Fuller on bold designs for

highly innovative buildings. His reproduction

Dymaxion car represents a personal tribute to

his extraordinary mentor.

Tony Dron is a motoring author and journalist who

has frequently competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans

A more advanced model, never built, would have used a tail rudder, like an aircraft, at speed

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The original Fiat 500 is the car that everyone loved, and its

contemporary counterpart, which went on sale in 2007, is

similarly appealing. It’s this emotional appeal that allows the

500 to cut across the usual social stratification that’s implied

by a person’s choice of car. Everyone likes Fiat 500s, which is

why they are popular even in areas where people could easily

afford to drive something much more expensive.

London’s Notting Hill is just such an area, and there was

recently a unique Fiat 500, with a matte-finished olive-green

paint job, parked on the chi-chi Kensington Park Road. The

car, which has an Italian number plate, belongs to Lapo Elkann

{fig.1, with Gucci’s creative director, Frida Giannini} who,

along with his brother John and sister Ginevra, represent the

Fiat luxe

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the lovechild of two of italy’s cultural luminaries, the new 500 by Gucci infuses Fiat’s

beloved retro car with cool, Florentine glamour, debuting at this year’s Festival of speed

current generation of the Agnelli family, who founded Fiat at

the end of the 19th century. Elkann could drive any car he

wanted, not least because his family owns a considerable stake

in Ferrari, but he chooses to drive a Fiat 500 (as well as a baby-

blue Ferrari 599 and an army-green Jeep Grand Cherokee).

Speaking at the launch of the new 500 by Gucci, Elkann

– whose creative agency Independent Ideas also works with

fashion houses such as as Diane Von Furstenberg, Diesel, Levi’s

and Swatch – said, ‘This is a car that I feel affection for

personally and nationally. This car, to me, is like a girlfriend.

The 500 is my favourite car ever, and when I was manager of

the Fiat group it was a car I always wanted to come out. It’s the

cherry on the Fiat cake. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from,

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it’s a car that puts a smile on your face. There

are very few cars like this in the world.’

One of the draws of the 500 is the degree

to which customers can make it their own – it’s

possible to specify all the available options in

half a million different combinations. However,

the newest version of the car, the 500 by Gucci,

is only available in one of two glossy finishes:

white or black. Both have a green and red stripe

running the length of the car just under the

window line. The green and red are the Gucci

colours, and, not coincidentally, also the colours

of the Italian flag.

Italy’s pre-eminent luxury fashion house,

Gucci, is currently enjoying unprecedented

success under the aegis of its Roman creative

director, Frida Giannini. Much of her success

is down to her canny understanding of the need

to balance fashion’s eternal pursuit of the future

with some strong echoes of a more glamorous-

seeming past. The clothes that Giannini designs

are contemporary versions of dresses and suits

from the Sixties and Seventies, and so the allure

of the new Fiat 500, itself a recreation of a

motoring icon from an appealing era, must have

been very clear to her.

This spring, the 500 by Gucci was unveiled

at a party at Milan fashion week. Earlier the same

day Giannini, sitting alongside Lapo Elkann,

explained how the car came about.

‘This product was born out of a wonderful

bowl of spaghetti with tomato and basil in the

Rome residence of Lapo, so it’s very Italian,’

smiled Giannini. She and Elkann are clearly good

friends, as they paid each other extravagant

compliments, but it’s notable that she said,

‘I trust him. If he has something in mind it’ll

come true, it’s not just a conversation over lunch.’

So it was that the 500 by Gucci went from

a conversation over pasta to a project that saw

Fiat’s Centro Stile design studio collaborate with

Giannini’s creative team. Elkann recalled, ‘Frida

and her team came up with millions of ideas.

When you see the car you see 100 of the concepts

deployed on the product – of the countless ideas

only 100 came true, but the team showed an

energy, verve and passion towards the product

that you can feel and taste.’ Giannini explained,

‘We didn’t want to create a new shape, because

it’s so right, we wanted to customise it as if with

make-up – it’s full of rich details. Of course the

price isn’t the base price for the 500 – it is

slightly higher – but it’s not impossible. It’s

still affordable.’

The car, while mechanically identical to

a regular 500, is extravagantly different in its

details. The exterior is decorated with the red

and green stripe, exclusive 16-inch wheels with

Gucci’s interlocking ‘G’ logo on the hubcaps

(which also have diamanté-studded spokes),

a different Gucci logo on the boot and door

frames as well as those specially developed paint

finishes, sparkling black or pearlescent white.

On cars fitted with 100HP engines the brake

calipers are in Gucci’s deep green, but the inside

of the car has received the most attention. The

seats are finished in leather and stamped with

a repeating Gucci logo, the belts are in green

and red, and the logo on the gear stick is a

further sign of the Florentine fashion house.

Just as the Fiat 500 makes sense to

Giannini, so Elkann is familiar with fashion.

‘I’m a suit freak,’ he says. ‘I’ve tested all the

tailors from Savile Row to Milan and Naples.’

As a man who regularly appears at the very top

of the best-dressed lists, and who was named by

fashion designer Tom Ford as the contemporary

male icon, he understands the power of image.

On the day of the 500 by Gucci unveiling, Elkann

wore a tan-coloured suit with wide peak lapels

made by Savile Row tailors Huntsman over a

chunky roll-neck sweater, with the collar of his

shirt peeking above the neckline. However, the

thing that makes him an icon isn’t just the outfit,

but the ease with which he wears it. Elkann

couldn’t look more comfortable if he was in a

pair of pyjamas and a dressing gown. By contrast

Giannini, sitting next to him, is the epitome of

starched chic, her model physique all the more

sensational given the demands of her job.

Elkann, an Italian patriot despite having

been born in New York, adores the Italianness

of the Gucci-designed 500 and is pleased it’s

arriving in 2011 as his country celebrates 150

years of unification. ‘Gucci and Fiat are two

global Italian brands, but they didn’t forget where

they came from, Gucci from Florence, and Fiat

from Turin.’ Then he adds, ‘I’m very proud to be

Italian. Italy has a potential that many other

countries would dream of having.’ It’s certainly

a potential fully realised in the new 500 by Gucci,

which will be launched this year at Goodwood’s

Festival of Speed.

Mansel Fletcher is Style Editor of British Esquire

‘The team showed an energy, verve and passion towards the

product that you can feel and taste’


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foodHandmade cheeses are among the

exceptional quality artisan produce to be

found at the goodwood farm shop


Barbican, The English Pig. Of Goodwood farm,

Mountain comments: ‘what is there not to say

about the quality? They have fantastic farming

methods, an abundance of land and some of the

most knowledgeable, caring people in the business.’

Lush pastures woven with clover and natural

wormer, bird’s foot trefoil, await the rotation of

200 cows. Further on, Hassell locates two herds,

temporarily housed during cold winter months,

but otherwise grazing outdoors. Above the bellows

of the youngest, Hassell boasts about the quality

and popularity of the farm’s beef burgers. ‘We sell

70,000 yearly, many from a trailer at the pre-1966

motor circuit.’

In addition, dispatched from the farm is the

three-strong fleet of mobile farm shops. The cows

seem rather plump. ‘Our meat is hung for 28 days

so it needs fat to stay moist,’ explains Hassell,

nonetheless conceding that one bovine is ‘a bit

of a big lady.’

We pass the Richmond Arms, the hotel restaurant

recently reacquired by Goodwood, the golf course

and the grounds of Goodwood House, where the Earl

and Countess of March occupy a wing. Some of the

estate’s 1,000 sheep, including black-faced Suffolks

born last week, shade under cedars. ‘I’d take the

depth of flavour of hogget [year-old sheep] over

new-season lamb any day,’ says Hassell, misty eyed.

It is smoother progress for the Land Rover over

Tarmac. Bodywork gleaming, a Silver Phantom

glides past (Rolls-Royce leases part of the estate).

‘I see at least one every day’ says Hassell, before

halting to inspect sauntering pheasants. He gives

his verdict: ‘Survivors of the shoot!’ Although they

are popular with celebrity guests such as Eric

Clapton, Hassell doesn’t

himself shoot, to the mild

frustration of Goodwood’s

gamekeeper, who feels

that if he did he would

be more sympathetic

to their needs.

On southerly slopes

are another type of shoot

– malt and barley, sown for

beer crafted at the large

microbrewery, Hepworth

& Co. ‘We’ve also been

talking about going into

a vineyard partnership,’

Hassell says.

Inside an anonymous

wooden-boarded shed is one of the farm’s most

promising projects. In here, wheels of Cheddar

slumber in their traditional muslin and lard

covering. Taking the name of a nearby village,

vintage Charlton suffuses aromas of damp linen.

Next to them, a verdigris bloom begins to envelop

a row of just-made cheeses.

Back at the shop, Hassell offers a tasting. At

five months old, with a canary yellow centre, the

mild is supple, buttery and long lived, while the

10-months mature is stronger in flavour but with

a brittle texture and hint of ginger on the palate.

Goodwood’s inaugural extra mature will be

ready for Christmas.

‘We want more Goodwood on the shelves,’

urges Vinnicombe between nibbles. ‘In fact, I’m

throwing a Goodwood dinner party.’ She points

‘We started small, like Chatsworth’s farm shop’

says farm shop manager, Lizzie Vinnicombe. ‘Five

years ago, we opened only on Saturdays, recorded

sales in pen and took money in a tin. If we made

£50 that was mad busy. Now we’re open all week.’

Originally used to store farm equipment, the

site is all bare bricks and rugged beams. Every

surface brims with estate produce, wicker hampers

and glossy greetings cards showing pasture animals.

The operation has undertones of the early days of

Chatsworth’s farm shop, which opened in a

converted tack room in the late Seventies and this

year scooped Farm Retailer of the Year.

‘Our USP is organic Goodwood meat,’ says

Vinnicombe, ‘which echoes the pure ethos on

which the Earl of March was raised.’ Stirring tea,

she cradles a milk carton. ‘We’ve got a dairy herd

for non-homogenised milk. See the cream cap?

We also produce raw milk. People travel for miles

to get hold of milk the way it used to taste.’

Vinnicombe is keen to underline the importance

of looking beyond the shelves of her shop to the lay

of farmland. Soon, farm manager Tim Hassell is at

the helm of his Land Rover. ‘Goodwood started on

the organic path in 1996 and we became fully

certified in 2006,’ he says. ‘Of 12,000 acres, 13 of

us including a pigman, shepherd, cowman, milk

processors and a tractor man farm 3,300 acres.’

He prowls past a pebbled cottage. ‘Ten of us live

on the estate.’

As we approach the farm’s pig pen, 27 sows

snuffle towards Hassell. Their coarse coats are

testament to their hardiness. A large white boar

keeps its distance then trots towards a teasing

chicken. ‘Happy – that’s how pigs should be,’

comments Hassell. ‘We feed them once a day with

home-grown food nourished by manure. No

fertilisers.’ Hassell points to the good back line

of a bright pink pig in profile, essential for the

‘tastiest’ bacon and loin chops. The roll call of

customers include BBC Two Great British Menu

chef contender Johnnie Mountain, who takes

weekly deliveries for the signature 21-hour roast

belly served at his restaurant in London’s

out ruddy steaks, gammon joints, rose veal, frozen

turkeys and beef pies, then announces her plan

to create a line of pork pies for picnickers.

‘There’s no point in filling the shop without

integrity,’ says Vinnicombe. But isn’t that Spanish

chorizo nudging the apple juice? ‘Leave it to the

Spaniards. They do it better than Brits. Although

I’m interested in air-dried ham,’ Hassell nods.

Formerly working front-of-house in restaurants,

Vinnicombe’s assistant manager Sam Newton says

that working here inspired

him to ‘fall in love with

food again’. He even

persuaded his vegetarian

sister, iron-deficient after

pregnancy, to try estate

sirloin. ‘She loved the

taste,’ he said.

Newton is keen to

share his passion for

cooking, and encourages

customers to cook by

offering advice, recipes

and complementary herbs.

Vinnicombe interjects:

‘Customers even email

photos of their dishes!’

But cheating is an option, too. Giggling, she

mentions that in her own time, an estate

housekeeper has been known to pass off

Goodwood farm shop pie filling as her own…

Douglas Blyde is a freelance food and drink

journalist who writes for Fork, The Spectator,

Harpers Wine & Spirit and Spear’s

OPPOSITE: The shape of things to come – a wheel of organic vintage Charlton, named after a nearby village, is a work of art

‘What is there not to say about the quality? They

have fantastic methods…’

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decade for next autumn. For a masterclass of this

style, take a look at Miu Miu’s autumn collection

with its pretty floral-print crêpe de Chine dresses

with their wide shoulders and voluminous sleeves

along with fur stoles, capacious clutches and

wonderful chunky heeled sandals. It’s a look

personified by Wallis Simpson, who dressed in

strong-shouldered dresses by Chanel and her arch

rival Schiaparelli. Circa Vintage, which is in

Fulham, is a favourite with fashion editors and

savvy collectors and more of an insider secret than

London’s best-known vintage stores, such as Rokit.

They have a good selection of Forties pieces here,

including gorgeous black crêpe floral dresses that

are supremely elegant and chic. This decade’s look

is also all about the accessories, too, and here

there are great examples of the kind of statement

jewels (some vintage and some vintage-inspired)

that were worn in the era including stunning

brooches and beautiful cuffs.

Circa Vintage, 64 Fulham High Street, SW6 3LQ;

020 7736 5038; circavintage.com

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F i F t i e s

The look of the Fifties is

unmistakeable even to

someone who knows

absolutely nothing about

fashion history. Once

Christian Dior popularised

voluminous shirts and

nipped-in waists with his

era-defining New Look in

1947, the following decade

was dominated by full,

swooshy skirts, fitted tops

and heaving bosoms. And

unlike preceding decades,

it’s incredible easy to find

pieces in great condition

from this era. The Real

McCoy in Exeter will get you into a vintage mood

before you’ve even started to shop – there is a

Fifties’ Americana cafe here in which to steel

yourself before delving in to the clothes. You can

hire or buy and there are plenty of the rock’n’roll

dresses that define this era, as well as a selection

of spivvy suits for the boys too.

The Real McCoy, 21 McCoy’s Arcade, Fore St,

Exeter EX4 3AN; 01392 410481;

therealmccoy.co.uk

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As the name suggests, the Pop Boutique in

Liverpool is a hub for all things Sixties (although

it also sells pieces from the Seventies and Eighties).

The first branch opened in 1994 in Manchester at

the height of the craze for all things retro and it’s

now a chain with stores from London to Liverpool.

You will find the bright swingy shifts, kinky

knee-high boots, mini-skirts and skinny rib knits

that are typical of this era – a look epitomised by

the youthquake silhouettes of Mary Quant and

Foale and Tuffin. This may be a leggy, youthful

look – from a era that revelled in freedom – but

the clean-cut aesthetic of the decade makes it an

easy look for many women to wear. Layer short

Two decades ago, when vintage mania first

struck, no one could have imagined the extent

to which old clothes would impact our modern

wardrobes. Since then the trend – which kicked

off with a fondness for pretty floral tea dresses

and customised vintage cashmere – has

splintered in myriad directions. There are

recyclers and upcyclers, customisers and

collectors through to the vast majority of us who

occasionally dabble in a bit of vintage here and

there – a Pucci scarf picked up in a market on

holiday, a Céline shoulder bag from the Seventies

or a vintage Chanel jacket inherited by the lucky

few from chic mothers and grandmothers. The

passion for dressing up in vintage, whether in

precious heirlooms or thrifty second-hand, has

had incredible longevity and the success of the

Goodwood Revival speaks volumes about our

enthusiasm for times – and wardrobes – gone by.

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t h i r t i e s

Super elegant and ultra feminine, pretty pieces

from chintzy floral tea dresses to sequined evening

jackets and capelets from the Thirties are always

among the most coveted – and treasured –

vintage pieces. But their delicacy also makes them

among the most hard to find – especially in good

condition. Virginia Bates has been dealing in

antique clothes for 40 years from her stunning

store tucked away in a peaceful corner of Notting

Hill. Every surface here is covered in incredible

heirlooms and Virginia is the go-to dealer for

‘inspiration’ pieces for designers from Ralph

Lauren to Donna Karan. Bates has always

maintained an incredible selection of languid

dresses from the Thirties, which have won her fans

from Kate Moss to Nicole Kidman. The fluidity

of this era – along with the often-svelte sizing –

means that this is a look that is perfect for

willowy, tall girls.

Virginia Antiques, 98 Portland Road, London W11

4LQ; 020 7727 9908

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F o r t i e s

The war years are about to have a major fashion

revival as designers from Gucci’s Frida Giannini to

Miuccia Prada are reviving the glamour of this

mini-dresses over skinny trousers or try out an

early Sixties style that is inspired by the cool lines

of Céline: pair a polo-neck or retro knit over

straight-legged black trousers.

Pop Boutique, 58 Whitechapel, Liverpool L1 6EG;

0151 709 7858; pop-boutique.com

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s e v e n t i e s

Although they’re not strictly part of the classic

revival era (1948-1966), the Seventies are currently

providing fashion houses with a never-ending

stream of ideas – including Marc Jacobs’s recent

ode to Studio 54, and Pucci’s richly bohemian take

on the era’s jet-set

lifestyle. The plush, luxe

top end of the market

is super-glamorous and

Atelier Mayer has some

of the most incredible

pieces for sale. Former

fashion PR Carmen Haid

set up the site to provide

a place where women

could buy luxury vintage

and has stuck faithfully

to her mission, showcasing

the best of the classics

such as Yves Saint

Laurent’s ‘Le Smoking’

and bohemian peasant

dresses from 1976,

alongside the decadent Givenchy dinner dresses

and sleek Halston jersey halter-dresses.

atelier-mayer.com

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U n i F o r m s

Vintage lovers fall in to two camps – those who

use vintage to put together very contemporary

looks, and the enthusiasts who live and breathe

a bygone era. For the latter, Armstrong’s is stocked

to the brim with amazing antique uniforms and

vintage fancy dress. It also stocks Scottish Highland

wear and beautiful Scottish tweed and cashmere.

Armstrongs, 83 The Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1

2HJ; 0131 220 5557; armstrongsvintage.co.uk

Clare Coulson is Fashion Features Director of

Harper’s Bazaar

The success of the Goodwood

Revival says much about our love of the past

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Wool separates by Greta Plattry, 1951; actress Kay Aldridge in the 1941 film You're In The Army Now; a Herbert Sondheim design, 1948; Bianca Jagger in the Seventies


flighT paThsSeventy-five years after the aircraft’s inaugural test flight,

a squadron of Spitfires will once again take off from westhampnett

during this year’s goodwood Revival. So how did this celebrated

aeroplane earn such a special place in British history?

Words R O B R YA N


A few years ago I was at a party for both established and newly

published authors at Hatchards, the Piccadilly booksellers. I

was the latter. Although I recognised many guests, I knew none

of them to speak to. I soon realised that the gentleman

standing next to me was in a similar position, so I introduced

myself. He asked me what I had written and I told him it was a

novel about WWII; I enquired about his book. ‘It’s just a

memoir,’ he said modestly. I pressed him. About? ‘Flying

Spitfires in the Battle of Britain.’

This was Geoffrey Wellum, who had just published First

Light, his enthralling account of his wartime exploits, and,

despite being surrounded by the likes of Paxman, Bragg and

Faulks, we huddled in our corner like naughty schoolboys

behind the bike sheds and spent the next hour hymning an

aeroplane that he had piloted almost 60 years previously. ‘I was

very lucky,’ he said to me. ‘It was the time of my life in many

ways. Nothing since has come close to the thrill of flying a

Spitfire. I loved that plane.’

He is not alone. Many pilots have spoken of their ‘love

affair’ (in those very words) with this sweet, graceful, yet tough

fighter, and it is hard to think of another aircraft of any

generation that has inspired such widespread devotion from the

non-flying public. Part of this is undoubtedly symbolic, because

the Spitfire is an integral part of the whole mythology of a

handful of brave and impossibly young pilots defending these

islands over the course of long, hot and bloody summer. The

Battle of Britain is as powerful a legend as that of Camelot, and

nothing quite captures its spirit like the Supermarine Spitfire.

But its appeal transcends the summer of 1940; even hardened

pacifists are enthralled by this machine, for it exudes an undeniable

charisma that is in part down to the Spit’s civilian roots. The

Hawker Hurricane, although reasonably

radical for the RAF in the mid-Thirties

(and which actually shot down more

enemy planes in the Battle of Britain,

thanks to its greater numbers), was

clearly an evolution from biplane

fighters such as the Hawker Fury. The

Spitfire’s antecedents were not military

aircraft at all, but the streamlined,

innovative floatplanes that RJ Mitchell,

the genius of the design, had created to

win the Schneider Cup in the Twenties.

Look at the Supermarine S6 of 1929

and you can see a strong familial

resemblance to the iconic single-seater.

No lumpen warhorse this – the Spitfire

was born of a thoroughbred racing pedigree and it shows. As

Geoffrey Wellum puts it: ‘When I first saw it, I was struck by the

line. The beauty of line. It looked – it was – wonderful.’

And of course it sounds wonderful, too: the Rolls-Royce

Merlin engine produces what one ace called ‘the song of power’.

Yet the fact we even have in our heritage such a handsome yet

aggressive-sounding plane is close to miraculous – time and

again it was almost scrapped or passed over.

You could script the Spitfire’s turbulent genesis just like a

Hollywood film. In Act One, a prickly but supremely gifted

individual (Mitchell) creates a beautiful plane in the face of

government indifference. Several times, the project is on the

brink of cancellation as the powers-that-be vacillate. In Act

Two, struggling with bungling Air Ministry bureaucracy to

deliver a working prototype, the genius learns he has the

cancer that will kill him before he sees the aeroplane save the

country. For Act Three, plucky workers make a gargantuan

effort to deliver the game-winning planes to the RAF just in the

nick of time, as, across the Channel,

Dorniers, Heinkels and Messerschmitts

warm up their engines.

Well, in fact, it’s not that far from

the truth, although it might come as

a surprise to learn that appeaser-in-

chief Neville Chamberlain was one of

the Spitfire’s champions (many in the

cabinet thought the RAF should be

building bombers), or that it was

Supermarine itself which caused many

of the initial delays because of its

chaotic management style and the

designer’s lack of organisational skills.

Tragically, Mitchell did die in June

1937, aged 42, and it would be another

year before Spitfires would be seen

in action, just 13 months before war was declared.

At that point, the Goodwood Estate’s Westhampnett Farm

was being hastily transformed into RAF Westhampnett, initially

for the Hurricanes of 145 Squadron, then, in August 1940, the

Spitfires of 602 Squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force

arrived, starting a long association with the marque. Famous

amputee pilot Douglas Bader flew Spitfires from Westhampnett

– including his last sortie when he bailed out over France and

became a POW – as did Poles, Czechs, Canadians and even the

USAAF, which based the Spits of 31st Group there.

Although RAF Westhampnett closed in 1946, the bond between

the Spitfire and Goodwood remains strong and unbroken to this

day. At the Goodwood Revival this year, to celebrate the 75th

anniversary of the first test flight of this wonderful aeroplane, a

group of the machines will perform a flypast, taking off from the

aerodrome at Westhampnett. Just watch the skies. Listen closely.

And fall in love all over again.

The Goodwood Revival is from 16 to 18 September

Robert Ryan's novel Early One Morning is about Bugatti drivers

who fought for the French Resistance

The Spitfire was born of a thoroughbred

racing pedigree and it shows

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in the Battle of Britain.

TOP RIGHT: A Spitfire banks

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and seconds. Heuer (more than a century before

the ‘TAG’ prefix was added), was one of the

pioneers in chronograph development, and

certainly the first to embrace motorsport with a

great big ol’ bear hug. In the late Sixties, Jack

Heuer, a hardcore racing aficionado, outfitted

the top F1 drivers of the day. It was a case of: if

one had a Heuer, the next

had to have one, too.

Cannily, Heuer’s

named several models

after races and race

circuits, including

Silverstone, Monza,

Carrera and Monaco, the

latter appended to the

world’s first automatic

chronograph in a square

case… as worn by Steve

McQueen in the 1971 film

Le Mans. So highly sought

after are these that a

black 1974 edition set

a new world record for its

kind last December of £48,000 in an auction at

Bonhams in London, and Steve McQueen’s own

sold for around £56,000 in 2009.

If you covet one of these models, named after

your favourite race or circuit, worry not about

paying collectors’ prices, for most have been

reintroduced by TAG Heuer in updated versions.

Particularly cool is the Silverstone, with rounded

C a r s a n d w a t C h e s : the mutual

attraction is irresistible. The reasons are myriad,

from the need for the timing of races and for

establishing performance figures such as 0–60mph

times, while the most glib, prosaic and obvious

is that both are, categorically, ‘boys’ toys’.

It goes back to the very earliest days of the

motor car, at the end of the 19th century. The

first automotive events, especially speed trials,

needed to be timed to show who was the victor.

Races on circuits usually produced an unequivocal

winner unless two cars abreast reached the finish

line; such occasions created a need for stopwatches

with ultra-precise, split-second timing.

Concurrent with the arrival of the first

automobiles was the evolution of the watch from

pocket to wrist. It was at the behest of adventurer

and early aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont in

1904 that his friend Louis Cartier devised a

watch that could be worn on the wrist – not the

first-ever wrist-worn watch, but arguably the first

to reach serial production. You know it as the

immortal Cartier Santos, which is still in

production, and which has sired a continual flow

of exemplary watches, the most robust being the

rugged Santos 100 – particularly rakish in the

black-and-stainless-steel combination.

Cartier was also inspired by automobiles

when it needed a name for a decidedly sleek and

sporty model. The Cartier Roadster uses design

details that recall automotive motifs, with a

winder that resembles the bullet-shaped tail

lights of a Fifties Cadillac. The chronograph

features a tachymeter, enabling the wearer to

use the watch to calculate speeds when road

markers are present, such as the mile indicators

on US turnpikes, against which to use the scale.

Enhancing the usefulness of the watch was

the addition of chronograph capability. In simple

terms, it means adding stopwatch functions to

a watch that shows the ‘normal’ hours, minutes

corners, while classicists should look to the

forthcoming reissue of the Monza to celebrate

the brand’s 150th year in motor racing in 2011.

Perhaps the most famous watch associated

with a race is Rolex’s Cosmograph Daytona,

a superb chronograph that will forever be

associated with another cinema/racing icon,

Paul Newman. Along with McQueen, Newman

was one of Hollywood’s consummate car nuts,

eventually running his own racing team.

In the 1969 motor-racing film Winning

Newman wore his own Rolex Cosmograph

Daytona, a version with a rare and distinctive

dial. That model caught the eye of the Rolex

hardcore, especially Italian collectors, whose

lust for said model turned it into one of the most

coveted collectors’ pieces

of them all. And ever

since it emerged as the

Holy Grail of Rolexes,

it has been known simply

as ‘The Paul Newman’.

Rolex has never let

the Cosmograph Daytona

go out of production. It

even fitted it with a new,

in-house movement in

2000, adding to its

desirability. As for its

motorsport credibility,

well, it’s good enough for

Sir Jackie Stewart, who

promised one to Rubens

Barrichello when he was driving for Stewart

Racing. Legend has it that the promise was

based on Rubens earning a podium spot for the

fledgling team in the Nineties. Rubens rose to

the challenge. Which begs the observation: what

some will do to earn a Rolex Daytona…

Ken Kessler writes about watches for the Wall Street

Journal, ST Watches & Jewellery and Men’s Health

W o r d s K E N K E S S L E R / P H o T o G r A P H Y M A T T H E W D O N A L D S O N

Drive

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helped propel the advancement of watchmaking, as this exploration of an age-old relationship between fast cars and classic timepieces reveals

With the arrival of the first cars

was the evolution of watch from pocket to wrist

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FRoM LEFT: TAG Heuer Monaco Calibre

11 Chronograph, £4,600, tagheuer.com,

0800 037 9658; Cartier Santos 100 in steel,

large model, £4,875, cartier.com, 020 3147

4850; 1997 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona with

Zenith movement in stainless steel, £8,950,

Watch Club, watchclub.com

Props Andy Tomlinson

RIGHT: Pink neon lace

dress, £1,795,

Christopher Kane

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My grandfather competed in no more than seven big races but he

won a lot of them


small MG or Austin and the big Bentleys would

then chase him. He even managed his own fleet

of MG Midgets. After the war, in 1948, he converted

the perimeter track of the Battle of Britain

airfield, which was on the Estate, into a race circuit.

It’s still there today and we brought it back to

life in 1998. It is the setting for the annual

Goodwood Revival, which is the most famous

historic race meeting in the world and the only

major sporting event to be set to a period theme.

As a child I would visit Goodwood for the

horse racing in July and the motor racing at

Easter, which was the highlight of my year. My

grandmother would give us fabulous presents

I t ’ s 8 0 y e a r s since my grandfather,

the ninth Duke of Richmond, won the famous

Double Twelve race at Brooklands in an MG

C-Type. It was an important race and, in a great

photo taken on that day in 1931 {fig.1}, you can

see how excited everyone was, literally throwing

their hats in the air.

My grandfather, who everyone knew as Freddie

March {fig.2}, is really responsible for my

lifelong love of cars and machines. When he left

Oxford, he took the very unusual step for a man

of his background of going on to the shop floor

at Bentley to get an apprenticeship, working for

the founder, the great WO Bentley. Soon he started

racing. My great-grandparents hated it. There’s

even a story that when he was actually winning

the Double Twelve, the race was on the wireless

(as it was called in those days); the butler brought

the radio into the Egyptian dining room where

Freddie’s parents were sitting, at either end of

a 30ft table. They told him to take it away.

Freddie didn’t race very much. He probably

competed in no more than seven big races but

he won a lot of them – his success rate was very

high. His other big triumph was in an Austin 7

as part of the 1930 Austin team that won the

Brooklands 500 Miles. He was interested in

high-tech, light, small cars. In those days races

were handicapped: he’d get a head start in his

spread out across our beds when we arrived. My

grandfather would take me round the race track

and the pits and send me car books and

magazines at school. When I was about ten, he

gave me The Automobile Book by Ralph Stein,

which was, I believe, the very first big colour car

book. I’ve still got it, and I used to endlessly

draw Bugattis from its pages.

In the end, Freddie concentrated on car

design and styling. He designed some really

lovely cars, one of which was a slightly rakish

16/80 AC in the mid-Thirties. I’ve got the

original two-seater prototype; it looks like

a small SS Jaguar, very chic.

Back then, at those Easter race meetings, the

drivers would stay in Goodwood House. There’d

be a big drinks party on Saturday night because,

rather brilliantly, they didn’t race on Sunday,

only on Easter Monday. I remember the drivers

– they were nothing less than gods to a 10-year-

old boy. You get inspired by that sort of thing as

a child. I suppose cars and motor racing are just

part of my make-up; they are part of who I am

and I guess I have Freddie to thank for that.

Goodwood Revival will mark the 80th anniversary

of Freddie March’s 1931 race win with an authentic

recreation of the MG team’s Brooklands paddock,

including a line-up of supercharged racing MGs

from the early Thirties

A rAcing pulsePresent Goodwood owner Lord March remembers the grandfather who

instilled a passion for motoring into the family blood

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