Goodwood Breakfast Club
It wasn’t until I was driving down the A3 on a very wet Sunday morning (at a relatively antisocial 7am) to Goodwood for the Supercar Breakfast Club meeting, and looked in my rear view mirror, that I realised how much effort supercar owners were going to in order to parade their pride and joy in front of like-minded people and exchange notes about engine sizes and leather seat colour schemes.
I saw five speeding Ferraris go past me in convoy – I gave chase, but was sadly only rewarded with a higher pitched squeal from my tamed-beast of a Smart. The two F430s, the 599, F50 and Testarossa disappeared into the rain leaving me with Justin Timberlake and Madonna.
Motor Sport’s aim at Goodwood’s Breakfast Club was to drive the message that we are quickly becoming the best motor sport magazine around, so I was busy handing out issues to drivers and our editor Damien Smith was on hand to talk to readers and woo them, in dulcet tones, about our latest coverage.
Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, McLarens, and Aston Martins were in out in force and for me, the highlight was the pack of Bugatti Veyrons, which were lined up on the starting grid of the Goodwood Circuit.
A delicious organic breakfast of bacon and egg baps was served throughout the morning to the super car enthusiasts – all produce was home reared at Goodwood. I look forward to attending the next meeting on 6th July and its theme is ‘soft top Sunday’ – can’t wait! I might even take the top off the Smart.
Photos by MN and Louisa Skipper
Louisa graduated from London Guildhall University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and audio-visual production. She previously worked in television production at advertising agencies J. Walter Thompson and M&C Saatchi and joined the editorial team at Motor Sport in January 2007. As well as being the marketing manager she is responsible for the content in the Desirables and Auctions pages. 
john thomas:
June 4th, 2008 11:30am
thought it was the most fantastic event,
exquisite cars,wonderful breakfast and wasnt
marred by the weather.good to see motor sport's louisa skipper in her kwik fit boiler suit!!!
john thomas:
June 4th, 2008 1:25pm
A wonderful event, fantastic cars, superb breakfast and Louisa skipper in a kwik fit boiler suit: what could be better?!
Jeremy Scoones:
June 4th, 2008 9:25pm
You have the best job in the world
James Cartlidge:
June 6th, 2008 3:57am
To be met by the lovely Louisa handing out a free copy of Motor Sport in the company of such amazing exotica made my sunday. Thanks Louisa!
RAM:
June 10th, 2008 10:59pm
You are becoming the best mag. But we really do need a slightly better results service. Why not print F1 grids and results in paragraph form along with perhaps GP2, IRL, F3 etc.? Why only print the top 8 of certain championships and reprint them month after month. Would it not be better to use these 2 pages as classified results pages for various series and print each race result in full and only once?
David Pender:
August 20th, 2008 9:03pm
Jeremy,
Dave Pender here – we used to go to school together at Royal Russell – have been trying to get in touch with you on facebook for ages – if you want to get in touch, ask the guys here to forward you my email address.
Hope you're well,
Dave
Nick Miller:
September 29th, 2008 11:29am
Why is it that sentences which start, “With all due respect” invariably follow with everything but? One is bound to wonder whence Little Chris gets his nick-name (not)!