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GOODWOOD REVIVAL 2019

Britain’s annual Goodwood Revival is universally recognized as the world’s premier Historic race meeting — on both two wheels and four. It’s been staged each September since 1998 over the 2.37-mile Motor Circuit opened in 1948 by the Duke of Richmond, and laid out on a decommissioned WW2 airfield, which the RAF had built on his Goodwood estate near Chichester, on England’s leafy South Downs.

Catering for the bikes and cars that would have competed at the circuit before it closed first time around in 1966, the three-day event thrills an annual sell-out crowd of 150,000 spectators, almost all in ’60s-style period clothing. It complements the annual mid-summer Goodwood Festival of Speed founded in 1993 by the present Duke, after he took over management of the Goodwood Estate from his father.

Until now, the list of riders competing in the Revival’s annual two-leg Barry Sheene

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