IN THIS FEATURE The perfect race meeting A catalogue of highs A flash back to pre-Goodwood days TT - Revival highlight

The TT, or Tourist Trophy. This one-hour, two-driver race is the Revival highlight, and the Mark Hales/Richard Attwood Bizzarrini is on pole (it won last year). These cars, like many at the Revival, are massively valuable but that doesn't stop nearly all the Revival racers from racing as if their lives depended on it. At Lavant corner, just before the chicane, Gerry Marshall's Ferrari 330 LM/B forces Attwood onto the grass and puts a dent in the Chevy V8-powered Bizzarrini, but no mechanical damage is done and Attwood fights back. It's the first car to stop for the pit stop and driver change, and Hales rejoins in a strong sixth place. He wins, again.

Second goes to Bill Shepherd's ground-shaking, wheel-spinning AC Cobra, which just held off the Justin Law/Andy Wallace Lister-Jaguar that led in the early stages. Sadly, the red-and-white Hammond/Young Corvette Sting Ray, the most spectacular car in the race, retires when its rear tyres could take no more and the team has no spares. It's not the noisiest, though; that award goes to the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupes, their machine-gun V8s contrasting nicely with the Ferraris' V12 screams.

The Simisters race in the GT40

And, for me, a dream come true. On Saturday I ride around the circuit in one of Ford's original GT40 course cars, the race version newly painted in the Gulf colours of pale blue and orange. Then, on Sunday, I get to drive the other GT40, the MkIII roadgoing one once used by PR chief and motor sport supremo Walter Hayes. Originally silver, DWC 8G is now restored in white with blue sidewinder stripes. To see Goodwood from the cockpit of a GT40, just before the final Whitsun Trophy race which features several more of my favourite-ever racing car, is joy unbounded. Thank you, everyone.

If you've never been to the Goodwood Revival, go next year. This is how racing should be.