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The racing was enjoyable. The Sidecars were a great addition and the Can-Am demo was great. The racecraft on display in lots of races was great, such as the battle for the win early on in the Peter Collins Trophy, in the S.F. Edge races, Parnell Cup lead battle, and among some of the frontrunners in the Surtees Trophy and Derek Bell Cup.
The number of incidents overall seemed less than some years as well.
Having watched Goodwood events in full since 2014 (although always from home on YouTube) it has been noticeable how the Goodwood grids have changed in terms of competitors and (in some races) the variety of cars. It becomes especially noticeable when watching older races and collecting the race programmes/entry cards for all the Revivals and MMs.
I personally enjoy having celebrity drivers, but I dislike how the broadcast focuses very heavily on them to the detriment of other drivers in the race.
I seem to remember the Gerry Marshall Trophy/Gordon Spice Trophy having a lot of variety in the early years with that variety reflected in the grid order and race result (multiple Rovers battling Ford Capris, a few Minis, only a couple of American muscle cars, several Dolomites, the VW Golf, Alfa GTV, a couple of BMWs, a few Escorts, a couple of Vauxhalls and oddballs like the Mazda RX7 and Opel Commodore). Now it seems that unless you have a Mustang or a Camaro you have very little chance of winning, not to take anything away from the talent of several drivers at the front. It also perplexes me that after accidents at the start every year in the reverse-grid sprint they still organise it for the following year!
Being of the target younger generation, for me the improvement in social media social media posts, image quality, production quality etc. has been fantastic.
Commentary and broadcast team was good this year and it was nice to have consistency after lots of changes in the past few years. There were a few stylistic things I didn't like and if I were to really nitpick, it was as if some cars were completely invisible in some races - e.g., the HW Alta-Jaguar went from P20 to P9 in the Peter Collins Trophy without being mentioned or featured on screen and in lots of races there was very little interesting information shared about a lot of the cars. That being said, with Google and TSL Timing it can be remedied from home.
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