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Written by Ollie Marriage
What"s it like to drive a car up the Goodwood Hillclimb? Well it"s a bit like being the royal bog cleaner it"s a huge honour, a massive privilege, a genuine experience, but the reality falls short of the exulted position you occupy.But if you ever get the opportunity to drive, or even to ride, up the hill, don"t miss it. And despite what I say above, every year I still find myself signing up to do drives that I know will require a whole morning of hanging around for one single minute of thrills". But then that"s what theme parks are like isn"t it? And at least this one is dedicated to cars.I use the word thrills advisedly for one reason, and one reason only. Yes, it"s exciting to drive a car up the hill in front of thousands of people, but no matter how good you are, you must always remember that you are not Jenson Button. You don"t have the talent or the fame. Everyone cares more about the car than they do you.So you"ll never look a hero because you"re not going fast enough, and if you do attempt to imitate Jenson or Kenny Brack or whoever, you"ll crash at Molecomb.And then you"re a zero, and the focus of 100,000 people"s anger for crashing something beautiful and setting everything back by half an hour so the crowd has nothing to watch and Stirling Moss is on the start line muttering that whoever was driving the Porsche is a damn fool". You don"t want that.So the technique is as follows: gently round the corners, bury it on the straights. The crowd gets the noise, you get to keep it out of the bales.
Date written: 2 Jul 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4093
What"s it like to drive a car up the Goodwood Hillclimb? Well it"s a bit like being the royal bog cleaner it"s a huge honour, a massive privilege, a genuine experience, but the reality falls short of the exulted position you occupy.But if you ever get the opportunity to drive, or even to ride, up the hill, don"t miss it. And despite what I say above, every year I still find myself signing up to do drives that I know will require a whole morning of hanging around for one single minute of thrills". But then that"s what theme parks are like isn"t it? And at least this one is dedicated to cars.I use the word thrills advisedly for one reason, and one reason only. Yes, it"s exciting to drive a car up the hill in front of thousands of people, but no matter how good you are, you must always remember that you are not Jenson Button. You don"t have the talent or the fame. Everyone cares more about the car than they do you.So you"ll never look a hero because you"re not going fast enough, and if you do attempt to imitate Jenson or Kenny Brack or whoever, you"ll crash at Molecomb.And then you"re a zero, and the focus of 100,000 people"s anger for crashing something beautiful and setting everything back by half an hour so the crowd has nothing to watch and Stirling Moss is on the start line muttering that whoever was driving the Porsche is a damn fool". You don"t want that.So the technique is as follows: gently round the corners, bury it on the straights. The crowd gets the noise, you get to keep it out of the bales.
Date written: 2 Jul 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4093
