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The screaming sound of music

YOU MAY FEEL THE NEED TO bring some earplugs to the 79th Members’ Meeting in April. The Goodwood season bursts into life with a grid of shrieking V10-engined grand prix cars and a fabulous group of Porsche 956s and 962s alongside the racing programme for historic cars and motorcycles.

At last year’s Members’ Meeting, as many fans will remember, Bruno Senna did some neat, and very fast, demo laps in his uncle Ayrton’s McLaren-Honda MP4/4 from 1988, laps that brought a capacity crowd to its feet. It was the sight, and sound, of the McLaren at full song around the circuit’s sweeping curves that inspired the Goodwood team to create a bigger, and even noisier, spectacle this year in celebration

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