The press invite from the people at Goodwood was, I imagine, designed to be an irresistible challenge to stir the blood: “Are you ready to follow in the tyre tracks of Hill, Stewart, and Fangio?” The answer to that question, directed as it was at this particular paunchy, ageing and frankly jaded motoring hack, was clearly going to be “no, not really”.
However… I remain dutiful, and so I bounded down to Goodwood Motor Circuit – sequestered in a particularly picturesque corner of Sussex – in a Subaru Forester press car.
