Goodwood Festival of Speed Sunday will go ahead after Saturday cancelled

Sunday's last time of the Goodwood Festival of Speed will spell ahead, lawsuit organisers person confirmed. It follows the determination not to unfastened connected Saturday due to a upwind informing for precocious winds, the archetypal clip successful the event's 30-year past that it had been cancelled.

In a statement, Festival of Speed organisers said that "the lawsuit is going up arsenic planned" – but reiterated that spectators should lone be if they person a Sunday ticket. The lawsuit is afloat sold retired for Sunday, and Saturday ticketholders volition not beryllium allowed entry.

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The forecast for Sunday is presently for sunny intervals with a flimsy accidental of rain, on with a 'fresh breeze'. 

Why the Festival was cancelled connected Saturday

Ticketholders, manufacturers and exhibitors were officially informed by festival organisers precocious connected Friday evening that the determination had been made to cancel Saturday's event. That came successful effect to a Met Office upwind informing for precocious winds, with 50mph gusts expected. The Festival of Speed tract features respective wooded areas, and aggregate impermanent structures.

A connection connected the Festival of Speed website read: "It is with heavy regret that we person taken the determination that the Goodwood Festival of Speed volition not spell up [today] (Saturday 15 July 2023). After consulting meteorologists, wellness and information experts and different cardinal stakeholders, we person taken the determination to adjacent the lawsuit tract owed to a terrible upwind informing successful the Goodwood area.

"On-site information is our highest precedence and the forecasted precocious winds volition airs a superior hazard to assorted impermanent structures crossed the site. We politely inquire that you bash not question to Goodwood oregon effort to entree the site.

"This determination has not been made lightly and His Grace, The Duke of Richmond, on with the full Festival of Speed team, are profoundly saddened that we volition not tally the lawsuit connected Saturday for the archetypal clip successful its 30 twelvemonth history."

Exhibitors were asked to unafraid their stands up of a tract shutdown from 11am. Festivalgoers staying astatine the campsite were allowed to stay, but were advised to instrumentality dense caution successful the conditions. 

Organisers expected the winds to person eased by the evening, and the yearly Goodwood Ball – this twelvemonth celebrating the festival's 30th day – was tally arsenic planned. 

Saturday ticketholders volition beryllium offered a refund successful the coming days. 

Conditions were mediocre astatine the Sussex lawsuit connected Friday, with the planned Red Arrows show cancelled astatine abbreviated announcement and monsoon-like rainfall pelting the circuit for astir of the afternoon. This resulted successful immoderate delays for drivers leaving the event car parks.