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The Bugatti Queen

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Club Lapel Badge I recently received my membership documents from the GRRC (Goodwood Road Racing Club) and a week or so later the annual luxurious and quite brilliant Goodwood Magazine. Of course it presents a style of life and expenditure that I can only dream of in real terms but this issue was particularly interesting with superbly illustrated articles on the Porsche 911 (50th birthday), William Knight the outstanding Goodwood horse trainer, the racing legend Jimmy Clark, the Boultbee Spitfire Academy where you can train to fly a Spitfire and a celebration of two decades of the Goodwood Festival of Speed. I managed to attend the Goodwood Revival in 2009  in my concours 1949 MG TC (black with Apple-green Collingburn interior)  and am still recovering from the cost from Warsaw of that sublime weekend.     Click on photographs for best results (Leica D-Lux 4) A couple of period punters in the March Enclosure Goodwood Revival 2009  LXA 52 The beautifully pa