Somehow, it just keeps on getting better for those who go every year - and first-timers at the Revival Meeting continue to be stunned by the sheer scale, imagination and variety of the entertainment on offer.
Of course it's not cheap and in the past there have been mutterings about value for money, but we heard none of those this year despite the substantial cost of entry - and a record 116,000 crowd turned out to enjoy it.
As well as a spectacular series of races with some hugely valuable historic cars (and some more affordable ones), Goodwood had invested in a wide range of new attractions for the 10th Revival Meeting.
The impressive Woad Corner Art Deco car showroom, displaying a mouth-watering selection of pre-1966 Ferraris, generated a huge amount of interest.
The legendary Revival air displays and tributes (a celebration of the racing career of Roy Salvadori and 40 years of the Cosworth-DFV engine) also entertained the crowds enormously, as did the unlikely sight of pre-1966 caravans being towed around the Goodwood track by appropriate period cars.
Awards were handed out throughout the weekend, with 10 glamorous ladies going home with floral bouquets and bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne on Saturday, in the worlds first Ladies Day for the best-dressed females at the event.
Irishman Joe Dible was awarded the 'Freddie March Spirit of Aviation' trophy for his delightful Foster-Wikner -Wicko- aircraft, flown-in as one of 26 entrants in the inaugural pre-1966 aircraft concours d'elegance, which proved to be a big hit with the Revival visitors.
The Spirit of Goodwood Award deservedly went to Bill Murray and Larry Miller for their superhuman efforts to sort their Shelby Daytona Cobra in time for the TT race. Having flown the car over from the US and then blown the engine, they located a replacement in London, commandeered a helicopter to retrieve it, assembled an engine hoist in the paddock and changed the V8 through the night on the eve of the race, then made the start.
The Will Hoy Memorial Trophy, presented to the driver who puts in the best performance in a closed-cockpit car, went to Jamie Boot. Punted out of the lead on the first lap of Saturday's Fordwater Trophy, his drive through to second at the flag (originally third, amended after the winning car was later disqualified), will live with anyone who witnessed it.
But there could only be one winner of the Rolex Driver of the Meeting - Jean-Marc Gounon. The manifestly enthusiastic Frenchman, who only experienced historic racing for the first time at last year's Revival, starred in everything he drove - and he drove a lot. After putting on an epic display of car control in the St. Mary's Trophy, winning on the road in Saturday's encounter, he came away with a thoroughly deserved win in the Sussex Trophy with Sir Anthony Bamford's Aston Martin DBR2 on Sunday.
Despite a few spins, there were no major racing incidents over the three-day event, with Martin Stretton being the only driver needing any form of medical treatment for a broken elbow as a result of an accident in his ISO Bizzarini A3C in the one-hour Royal Automobile Club TT race. Martin is fine and back home already.
Malcolm McKay, Motorbase News Editor
